It's one of the more amazing statements from an NFL player I've ever heard. How can a 10-year veteran -- a quarterback -- not realize that, in a regular-season game, if neither team scores in the overtime period, the game ends in a tie?

Has he never looked at the official standings? Has he not wondered what the "T" in the "W-L-T" formula means?

It also makes me wonder what kinds of conversations McNabb has had with his coaches over the years. If he doesn't know that games can end in ties, what other common knowledge regarding the sport he gets paid millions to play does he not possess?

Does he think the ball is really made from the skin of a pig? Does he believe that, in the old days, a short pass to a running back was actually thrown by the quarterback with a small shovel?

At a time when folks in Philadelphia are searching for hooks on which to hang their anti-McNabb and anti-Reid hats, McNabb's stunning admission might give them all the ammunition they could ever need