Christian Ponder expects to be booed in Minnesota

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When the travel to Minnesota on Saturday to take on the , expects a rude welcome from the fans of his former team."Oh, I'm going to get booed," Ponder said, . "I'm trying to figure out, we were talking about it Rod Carew Jersey  in the quarterback room, what I should do when I get out on the field? Should I  CJ Wilson Jersey take a bow, or what? What's going to happen? I'm expecting some boos, but it's all fun though."The problem is, the fan-athlete system is broken, especially when it comes to first-round picks who don't pan out. If Ponder indeed gets booed by the fans in Minnesota, it will be  Nolan Ryan Jersey because the team's scouts, executives and head coaches thought he was a starting-caliber quarterback right away but he wasn't.Ponder didn't force the to choose him with the No. 12 overall pick, and the team did so anyway after and fell off the board.Think about that for a second.Ponder seems to have  J. C. Ramirez Jersey a fine sense of humor about the whole thing and one can only hope fans do, too. Maybe then we can start a tradition in which general managers get retroactively booed for poor decisions instead of the players who did nothing to  Yunel Escobar Jersey put themselves in the cro shairs.The latest Podcast and takes you behind the scenes in Cleveland with Marc Se sler.