This Week in Oregon Sports History: 9/1/1838 and 9/5/2009

9/1/1838 - William Clark, world famous explorer and national hero, passed away at the age of 68 in Missouri. What does he have to do with Oregon sports? Without him, there may not be any Oregon as we know. Yes, I know I'm pushing it.

More importantly (for the purposes of this blog), going way back to September 5, 2009, poor Joey Harrington was cut from the eventual Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints. The former Duck, who once had a billboard put up in Times Square to aid in his campaign for the Heisman, never quite had his career go as planned. After being drafted at #3 by the Detroit Lions in 2002, Harrington would go on to struggle on some terrible teams in the Motor City, sporting an 18-37 record as a starter. He was then traded to Miami to serve as a backup to Daunte Culpepper, before bouncing around the NFC South with Atlanta and New Orleans for a couple of years. As Derek Ward said on today's podcast, his career may not have gone according to plan, but it went about how you would expect by anyone drafted by the Lions.