Vernon Davis cried and I think it’s great!

Last weekend saw the 49ers rally over the mighty high powered New Orleans Saints. 2 minutes to play and the 49ers score to take them into the lead. Brees and crew marched down the field and were rather too rash. They scored themselves, giving the 49ers one last chance. Big time playoff games need big time to players. Up step Vernon Davis.

The big 49er TE stepped across the goaline and snatched the winning TD with Saint’s defender, Harper all over him like a rash. It was an emotional moment. This last second grasp put the 49ers into the NFC championship game, since…well I don’t remember exactly, but it has been a long time.


The 49ers have gone un-noticed this year. People have not taken their smash-mouth football seriously as they play in a weak division, but over taking the Saints has put them on the map. With the Giants knocking out the Packers, (the first round seed) the 49ers have a great chance to get to the Super Bowl.

I met Vernon Davis in 2010 when he came over to London to play the fourth International series. He was here doing a Q and A at Wembley. This was the year after he hurled in 13 TDs, an amazing amount for a tight end. He struck me as humble and honest.

This was the year after Davis had been publicly humiliated by then head coach Mike Singletary, who during a game ejected Davis, for “not being a team player.” Two seasons later and Davis is not only captain, but takes his role seriously.

After pulling in the TD to win the game, big Vernon Davis was brought to tears. Who would have thought that Vernon would be such a good and emotional leader two years ago. Now look at him. For professional athletes to cry shows us that they are not just in the game for money. Famously Terrell Owens cried several times and in football, Paul Gascoigne cried at the World Cup semi final.

The crying certainly helps us as fans humanize with the multi-million dollar players and proves to use that this supposed to be a game and yet it is often clouded by being a business too often.

I wanna’ see more crying athletes.