Q: What's more demeaning - being on an exploitative reality television show or being a member of the 1981 St. Louis Cardinals?

A: Both of them are tremendously demeaning!

Take Ken Greene. Last week against the undefeated Detroit Lions, he made 7 tackles, intercepted two passes and brought them back 15 yards, and forced a comma. Who gives a fuck about the Oxford Comma, you ask? Ken Greene does, because he's done caring about football. Despite his heroics, his Cardinals lost to Detroit in overtime, 27-21.

Greene started at safety in the NFL for five seasons. Not bad, even if it was all for poor defenses (the late-70s and early-80s Cardinals and the 83-84 Chargers). He even got himself a coaching career when his playing days were over - he was an assistant coach at Vallivue High School in 1994, and then went on to be a general assistant/defensive backs/linebackers coach at Fresno State (1995-99), from where he became Purdue's defensive backs coach (2000-02), and he held the same job at Washington State from 2003-06. An impressive enough resume for a good player and a good coach.

And then he went on the Amazing Race.

This man went on national television and said that he was entering the Amazing Race to save his relationship with his wife, Tina, the woman whose picture appears in the teaser to this article (a hint: it didn't work; they've since divorced). She works as a CEO for a biotech/pharmeceutical company, said at the time that Ken is "fun and teaches me to stop and smell the roses. He's got such a positive attitude about life that you love being around him."

In Ken's words, "When you agree to do a show like that, you're exposing your personal life to the world [...] Once we were chosen, we were so eager to get started."

Ken Greene was eager to expose himself, and the St. Louis Cardinals, to the TLL in Week 7, and much like he would lose his wife years later, he lost the game. Still, his ridiculous performance (nowhere near as ridiculous as agreeing to appear on reality television) earns him this week's Defensive Player of the Week.