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Alex Brink is boring

Aug 12, 2008 2008 Draft, Duane Brown as Eliza Doolittle, Fluff, Frank Okam is an evil genius

At least judging by the answers he gave in the Houston Texans 2008 Official Yearbook, he is.  All of the draftees were asked some get-to-know-you questions. Here are the answers:

If I were not a football player, I would be:

Duane Brown: A basketball player. I love basketball. I had a couple of offers from smaller schools coming out of high school. Every chance I get, I try to get out there and run around a little bit on the court.

Antwaun Molden: A motivational speaker. I love giving back to the community. When I grew up, I never had that figure, that role model in my life. So I know how important it is for kids to have that positive figure in their lives.

Steve Slaton: A chef. I like to cook.

Xavier Adibi: A basketball player. I played a lot as a kid.

Frank Okam: A chef. I really like to cook. I like to try different things in the kitchen. I started at a very early age, so I can say it’s probably one of my talents.

Dominique Barber: A hockey player. I grew up playing hockey since I was [a] little kid, two years old, just like football.

Alex Brink: Probably in school still, studying, trying to get my MBA.

When I’m not at work, I’m most often:

Brown: Playing video games — Madden or NBA 2k8. It’s just something me and my friends always get a kick out of — heated rivalries.

Molden: Reading on stocks. I read Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett. I’ve been doing it for a year-and-a-half [sic] now.

Slaton: Usually listening to music.

Adibi: Playing Xbox — NBA 2k8 and Madden.

Okam: Sleeping, especially on this level, I get a lot of rest. But if I’m doing something, I like to be around people. I’m a people person, and that’s important to me.

Barber: Watching hockey, trying to fish or trying to golf.

Favorite all-time song:

Brown: I’d say “The World Is Yours,” by Nas.

Slaton: I don’t know about all-time, but right now it’s Mary J. Blige and Jay-Z, “You’re Welcome.”

Adibi: Sam Cooke, “Long Time Coming (A Change Is Gonna Come).”

Barber: I would say “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Temptations. [Ed. note: I wonder if he actually means the original version by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell or the later cover done by the Supremes and Temptations? Because the former is MUCH better.]

Brink: I would probably have to say Eminem, “Lose Yourself.”

Favorite non-football sports moment:

Molden: In 2003, we won a national championship in 2003 at NC State in the Adidas National Championship.

Slaton: I ran track in high school, and we did really well in the Penn Relays.

Adibi: My first dunk in a high school game. I was in the ninth grade. Everybody just went crazy.

Barber: Going to the state high school hockey tournament my senior year, just being at the Excel Energy Center where the Minnesota Wild play. It was a memorable moment for me.

Brink: My senior year of high school, I was all state in baseball. Baseball was my favorite sport, so it was awesome to get a little recognition there. I thought about playing in college but didn’t end up doing it because I was in a quarterback battle for like three springs in a row, so I didn’t have time.

Favorite cartoon as a kid:

Brown: “Scooby Doo.”

Molden: I would definitely have to say “Ninja Turtles.”

Slaton: “The Angry Beavers.”

Adibi: “X-Men.”

Okam: Probably sounds a little corny, but it was “Darkwing Duck.”

Barber: “Alvin and the Chipmunks.” Absolutely.

Brink: “Duck Tales.”

What actor would play you in a movie about your life?

Adibi: Will Smith. He just reminds me of myself, you know: tall, handsome…

Okam: Probably Michael Clarke Duncan. Everybody tells me I look like the guy from “The Green Mile,” so it’d have to be somebody pretty big.

Brink: I don’t know…Matthew McConaughey maybe. I think he’s a good actor.

Favorite guity pleasure:

Brown: Cheesecake. I love cheesecake.

Molden: I used to play a lot of video games in high school. I definitely grew out of that now, though. I haven’t picked up a controller in three or four years.

Slaton: Eating cake.

Adibi: I ate a lot of Snickers when I was growing up.

Barber: Cold Stone ice cream. When you can get the whole mixture of my favorite candy, Kit Kat, Snickers…it’s bad.

Brink: My mom’s chocolate chip cookies. No doubt.

Special talents:

Brown: I play the alto saxophone. I started playing that in sixth grade, so I went about eight years straight. I haven’t played in a while, though.

Slaton: Not many people know that I am a really good cook.

Brink: None. I’m very one-dimensional.

Ideal SportsCenter highlight:

Brown: I would just say become tackle eligible or something like that in the red zone, get the ball in my hands somehow and score a touchdown. That’d be my ultimate SportsCenter moment.

Molden: My perfect SportsCenter highlight would be after the Pro Bowl, on ESPN after a great Pro Bowl performance, one of the cast asking me, “What were you thinking on this play when you took an interception to the ouse in the Pro Bowl?” [Ed. note: The Pro Bowl?  Weak.]

Slaton: The first time I touch the ball in the regular season, I take it all the way for a touchdown.

Adibi: Maybe just running through a quarterback’s back and him fumbling, me picking it up and going to the end zone with it.

Okam: You know, it’d probably be a game to clinch going to the playoffs against the Titans and being able to sack Vince Young and cause a fumble and return it for a touchdown. Playing with him at Texas, you never got to touch him because we’ve got that quarterback ruleor whaever,so if I ever get a chance to do that, I’l tell him, “This is what I would’ve been doing to you all those years in college.” [Ed. Note: I didn't think it was possible, but I love Big Frank's selection even more after this answer.]

Barber: I would say a pick to te house, an interception to the house vrsus the Cowboys with my brother (Cowboys RB Marion Barber III) chasing me.

Brink: I would be running for a touchdown and I’d probably be leaping over somebody at the pylonlike Reggie Bush. That would be my ultimate highlight.