The NFL game show

This football non-fan didn't even know about the "combine" starting this Thursday in Indianapolis. Apparently, a bunch of NFL team execs will watch prospective players run forty-year dashes, lift weights, and play Scrabble.

Okay, they really don't play Scrabble. How many football players know enough words? (Apologies for my incurable snobbery.) But a guy named Sam Westmoreland, apparently a football fan, offers some game-show-related ideas to make the combine more fun.

He'd like an obstacle course, for instance, just like Legends of the Hidden Temple. Trouble is, you'd need really large temple guards to eject the losers. He also wants to make the Wonderlic test - a quick IQ exam the league gives to all its players - into a game show called Who Wants to Play in the NFL?

Yes, I could make another snobbish comment about IQ tests for football players. But I've already hit my snobbery quota for today. As it happens, I once took the Wonderlic test myself during a job interview. It wasn't much of a game show, but I got the job.