I’m not entirely sure if this is “news” or not, but a regular EMUTalk.org reader/contributor sent me this link from the Freep.com, “Charlie Batch in running as ‘face of EMU.’” Basically, this is about a “contest” over on ESPN, presumably to promote the college football season. It’s an award, I guess, but it’s mostly a way of ESPN to promote itself. Which I suppose is true with most awards. Nonetheless, congrats to Batch; whatever happened to him, anyway?
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When Charlie was drafted in 1998 by the Lions, it came as a surprise to some locally because three months before, Brian Griese was the QB for U-M, and he led the team to a co-national championship. Nonetheless, he was the scapegoat for the team’s ineptitude (despite being one of the few players who performed well), and he was let go in 2002 once Detroit drafted Joey Harrington (to no one’s surprise, would be the scapegoat a few years later).
Charlie went on to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers and has been quite successful as a backup to Ben Roethlisberger. If not for Roethlisberger being the franchise player, Charlie might actually be the full-time starter, but at least he has a Super Bowl ring.
One of my more shy colleagues emailed me the following that I thought I’d go ahead and post as a comment: “By all accounts, he could be a starting QB in any number of NFL towns, but he is committed to the city of Pittsburgh and the state of Pennsylvania. He has been an astonishingly class act, creating a charitable foundation that has become a model for the NFL. We could do far worse–and by God we have–than to have Charlie Batch be the face of EMU.”