PFW/PFWA awards '99: Most Valuable Player By Robert Neely, Associate editor
As published in print Jan. 17, 2000 Rams QB
Kurt Warner Everybody knows the story by now. Kurt Warner, a guy from Nowhere, Iowa, by way of Arena Football and NFL Europe, gets forced into action when the starting quarterback blows out his knee in a preseason game. Warner goes on to have one of the best seasons by a quarterback in NFL history, becoming only the second player to throw 40 or more TD passes in a season (he finished with 41) and recording the fifth-best passer rating (109.2) in league history. And oh, by the way, he also leads his team, which had been a measly 4-12 the previous season, to a 13-3 record, an 8-0 division record and the top seed in the NFC playoffs. Warner’s story is so improbable that even Cinderella would have trouble believing it. The Rams’ QB came out of nowhere more than the plot twist in "The Sixth Sense." Roll credits. | |
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