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Romance Taylor runs a 4.2?

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ill believe that when me **** turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert[/irish accent]

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Radio says he's the fastest player on the overrated underachievers

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Vince has never said he's the fastest player on the team.

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A few weeks ago, Franchione sat at a table during the Big 12 media days and humbly said McNeal ran a legitimate 4.3 40 in summer timing. Not a pencil moved. A day later, when told of a teammate's alleged sub-4.3 40 time, Young defiantly responded, "Ain't nobody on this team faster than me." The assembled throng of media giggled and feverishly scribbled on notepads before launching into a series of Heisman Trophy questions.

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I know he wasn't serious, but technically he said it, so I was still wrong.

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Say someone clocks a hand-timed 4.35 in an NFL workout.

The accepted standard to convert a hand-timed event to its automatically timed equivalent is to round up to the nearest tenth of a second – in this case 4.4 – and add .24 seconds. Now you're at 4.64.

Most football 40s don't go on a starter's pistol but on an athlete's motion. The average reaction time among elite sprinters (from the gun to the moment they exert pressure on the starting block's electronic pads) is about .15 seconds; for a football player with little track experience it probably would be closer to .2. Add that in, and you have 4.84.

Now say it's a breezy day and you're running with a tailwind. Say it's 10 mph. Accepted track tables say that would provide a .07-second advantage over 40 yards. Add it in, and your 4.35 is suddenly a 4.91.

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They broke down Michael Johnson’s steroid-assisted world record 1988 hundred-meter dash and found that he covered 40 yards in 4.38 seconds.

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Young defiantly responded, "Ain't nobody on this team faster than me."

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