Mr. Irrelevant

Players chosen with this pick are often released from the team that drafted them before preseason or training camps begin.

Salata had a short and "irrelevant" career in professional football, playing the 1949 AAFC season as a member of the San Francisco 49ers and in the 1950 NFL season for the first Baltimore Colts, and sought to bring attention to other unlauded players for whom a professional career was likely to be fleeting.

[1] Originally organized by Salata and fellow members of the Balboa Bay Club,[1] after each draft the new Mr.

Irrelevant — last player selected in the annual NFL draft — and his family are invited to spend a week during the summer in Newport Beach.

A trip to Disneyland, a golf tournament featuring a main foursome consisting of the highest-handicapped golfers from each of four neighboring courses,[1] a No Start/No Finish regatta,[1] a roast giving advice to the new draftee, and a ceremony awarding him the Lowsman Trophy are traditional activities associated with "Irrelevant Week".

However he signed with the San Diego Chargers of the rival American Football League instead of with the Philadelphia Eagles.

His main sport, however, was basketball, in which he was a consensus All-American and the nation's leading scorer as a senior at Providence College.