The ghosts of QBs past

In the February issue of Esquire, Chuck Klosterman has penned an interesting and, at the end, really humorous (at least, to me) piece on pro athletes turned TV analysts and their accomplishments/abilities during both phases of their lives. For a taste, here's the concluding paragraph, which just so happens to be about one of the worst quarterbacks my beloved and always beleaguered Vikings ever have fielded (I added the link for the person in question's name):

Sean Salisbury: If you discount the print-media buffoons (Jay Mariotti, Skip Bayless, et al.) who go on TV with the express intent of destroying whatever credibility the newspaper industry once had, Salisbury is the least cogent, most wrongheaded voice in the sports media. He's an atrocity. Yet this broadcast lunacy has saved his gridiron legacy. Salisbury's career-passer rating was a dismal 55.1 and he never had one decent season, but in retrospect that production looks amazing. It seems impossible, but it's true: Sean Salisbury was better as a player. Which is just about the craziest sentence I've ever written.