World's Latest Billionaire

So now that we're two weeks past the latest Superbowl and most of us are aware that Hines Ward won the MVP, it has come to the public's eye to a large degree that Ward is half-black, half-Korean. According to his accounts, when he has visited South Korea with his Korean mother, his mixed heritage and his mother having been married to a black man have been cause for perverse racism. He has told of ostracism, slurs, and the like directed his way when he last visited South Korea with his mom. It was so bad, in fact, that up until now his mom has refused to return.

Funny what one game will do to one's reputation.

Now, Ward is the toast of South Korea. According to my Korean father-in-law, all the Korean news papers have re-adopted Ward as their crown jewel. And...get this...Ward is so successful as a football player...I'm not making this up...the Korean papers are touting that he makes ONE BILLION DOLLARS a year. Mostly in endorsements, of course. According to those Korean papers, he makes even more thant Tiger Woods. No where mentioned was Ward's latest contract extension of 5 years for $27 million, which of course is just a shade under a billion.

Way to go, Mr. Ward.

BTW, who is running the Korean press these days, the same guy who witnesses Kim Jong Il's golf game???