For many of you and possibly all of you that aren’t aware, Lil’ Wayne and new quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs Matt Cassel are irrecoverably connected.

Most NFL fans are aware of a quarterback named Tom Brady though. Last season Brady went down to a horrific left knee injury in which he tore his ACL and MCL. The injury came in week one versus the Kansas City Chiefs, a team in which now Matt Cassel is the franchise quarterback for. Due to a low hit by current Kansas City Chiefs safety and Cassel teammate, Bernard Pollard. No one blames Pollard for Brady’s injury, he was simply scrambling on his hands and knees to get to the quarterback and hit Brady right in his lead throwing leg as Brady stepped into a throw.

This inadvertent injury thrust Cassel onto the scene, initially displaying why he had not started a game since high school. After Cassel grew with confidence, his talents became recognized around the league and after back-to-back 400-yard passing games, a bona fide NFL star had been born.

Of course, none of this would have been possible until one peels back the sheets to uncover that Lil’ Wayne was the main culprit.

It all began when Hip-hop star Lil’ Wayne staged a concert at the Lafayette Cajundome. New England running back Kevin Faulk was making his way to a suite to enjoy the show, but he had some illegal contraband in his possession, mainly a few marijuana cigarettes, and was summoned with a misdemeanor by the Louisiana Sherriff’s Department. This infraction resulted in a one-game suspension for Faulk which was the first regular season game of 2008.

Unfortunately for Brady, this meant the best blocking back on the team would be in street clothes to open the season. On the play Brady was hurt, running back Sammy Morris came up and met Pollard in the A-gap and laid a pretty solid block on the blitzing safety. Pollard stuck with the play and crawled his way into Brady’s leg.

Cassel will earn $14.65 million this season due in large part to Lil’ Wayne enticing Kevin Faulk to burn down, Sammy Morris not blocking Bernard Pollard until the whistle and playing lights out for the remainder of the season.

In addition, the New England front office was also connected to KC’s top brass as long time vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli took the GM post at Kansas City and now the Chiefs have their franchise quarterback. Once the dust settles from a whirl wind trade that left one mile high quarterback miffed, one Arrowhead QB optimistic and one rapper in the wrong place at the wrong time. It appears that through a strange turn of events, Matt Casell may need to get Lil' Wayne a bottle of Cristal or maybe some diamond encrusted necklace to at least repay him a small portion by displaying a grace of gratitude.

Six degrees of separation:

Lil’ Wayne (rapper) > Kevin Faulk (Patriots) > Sammy Morris (Patriots) > Bernard Pollard (Chiefs) > Tom Brady (Patriots) > Matt Cassel (Chiefs)

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