Ex-Spartan QB Doesn’t Get Video Game Lawsuit

Earlier this year, Sam Keller made a bigger splash off the field than he ever did on it as a Nebraska quarterback when he filed a lawsuit against video game titan EA Sports and the NCAA.In the suit, Keller alleges that EA Sports uses -- or allows gamers to do so -- the names and likenesses of collegiate players in their NCAA football game series, a move which is strictly prohibited by NCAA bylaws.While Keller has a bug up his hindquarters -- and rightfully so -- over an image eerily similar to his gracing a video game from which he derives no monetary gain, former Michigan State and current Detroit Lions quarterback Drew Stanton doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about.In fact, Stanton seems downright honored and flattered that his likeness is featured."Most people are excited that they’re in a video game,” Stanton told the Detroit News. “It could be the fact that this player found a loophole in the system, but I think the majority of people in the game are happy to be in it. The reason you go to college isn’t to be in a video game and get paid for it."It’s one of those things that I don’t think there’s really anything to be upset about or feel like you’re being cheated or taken advantage of. It’s a different thing if we’re talking about the sale of your jersey, but as a whole, I think college players should be happy just to be in a video game."Exactly, Drew.The NCAA already makes money hand over fist off the backs -- and blown-out knees and ruptured tendons and separated shoulders -- of its “student-athletes” in myriad ways right now, what’s one more avenue going to hurt?Just be happy about it. Or, as The General once opined, if it’s inevitable, just lay back and enjoy it.