‘There are such people capable of making chicken salad out of chicken scratch. Two of them come quickly to mind: Ron Wolf, the former Green Bay general manager who traded a first-round draft choice to Atlanta for a backup quarterback named Brett Favre; and Ernie Accorsi, the former general manager of the New York Giants, the real Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts. In New York he traded for Eli Manning, in Cleveland he traded for the rights to Bernie Kosar and in Baltimore he drafted John Elway only to have the owner, the late Robert Irsay, trade Elway’s rights behind the GM’s back to Denver.’