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Melanie Fitch and her Irrelevant Week team do not get to select who is going to be Mr. Irrelevant \u2013 AKA the last football player picked in each year\u2019s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

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If it was up to Fitch and company who would be this year\u2019s Mr. Irrelevant, they just might have picked Red Murdock.<\/p>\n

The Denver Broncos took Murdock with the 257th and final pick in this year\u2019s NFL Draft. Being No. 257 made Murdock Mr. Irrelevant LI.<\/p>\n

For 51 years Irrelevant Week\u2019s theme has been \u201cCelebrating the Underdog.\u201d Murdock fits the theme. His life has been one of high achievements in challenging circumstances.<\/p>\n

Murdock is one of six children born to a single-mother. While attending Hopewell High in Virginia he also earned his associate\u2019s degree from nearby Brightpoint Community College via a dual enrollment program.<\/p>\n

He did not get college football recruiting interest while playing at Hopewell, so he spent a year at Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia. One college recruited him from there, the University of Buffalo where he became a second-team All-American linebacker who finished second in the nation in tackles with 142. Murdock also was named to the Mid-American Conference\u2019s All-Academics team.<\/p>\n

Murdock earned a Master\u2019s Degree in psychology.<\/p>\n

Irrelevant Week began Wednesday with The Lowsman Banquet at The Cannery in Newport Beach. Murdock was handed his Lowsman Trophy \u2013 it looks very much like the Heisman Trophy except instead of the trophy displaying a player carrying a football, the Lowsman Trophy displays a player dropping a football \u2013 and was alternately praised and teased by Fitch and this year\u2019s master of ceremonies Paul McDonald, Newport Beach resident and former USC and NFL quarterback.<\/p>\n

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Murdock, wearing an orange Broncos jersey with the number \u201c257\u201d on the front and back, arrived at The Cannery standing on the bow of a yacht that was accompanied by an Orange County Sheriff watercraft.<\/p>\n

The week\u2019s activities include a surf lesson, a visit with Newport Beach Junior Lifeguards, a beach BBQ, the Beer Can Regatta sail followed by a BBQ at the Balboa Yacht Club \u2013 all of that on Thursday \u2013 and a Disneyland visit and Angels game on Friday. Irrelevant Week is capped by a tour of Newport Beach peninsula establishments on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Irrelevant Week was started in the 1970s by the late Paul Salata. Salata was a Newport Beach businessman, USC and San Francisco 49ers receiver who had a few bit parts in movies like Stalag 17 and The Ten Commandments. Salata loses in a fight with Charlton Heston as Moses in the latter film (\u201cI\u2019m so old, I got beaten up by Moses,\u201d Salata would joke).<\/p>\n

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Salata\u2019s daughter Melanie Fitch helped her father run Irrelevant Week and took charge of it years ago. Salata\u2019s credo was \u201cDoing something nice for someone for no reason,\u201d so the event has raised more than $1 million for local needs. This year\u2019s Irrelevant Week is benefitting student scholarships.<\/p>\n

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Irrelevant Week is supported by the NFL. Tim Tubito, NFL senior director of global entertainment, represented the league at Wednesday\u2019s banquet.<\/p>\n

Among Wednesday\u2019s other banquet attendees wer sports agent Leigh Steinberg, former USC basketball coach Stan Morrison, former NFL player and now actor Matt Willig and ex-football official Laird Hayes who was on the officiating crew for three Super Bowls.<\/p>\n

Fitch got to announce the 257th pick at the draft, which she has done for years and which her father did for decades.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the draft the Irrelevant Week team begins working with the team of Mr. Irrelevant to figure out his availability and to make the week\u2019s events align with that availability. In some years that is more difficult than it is in other years (this year was a hectic one).<\/p>\n

Murdock (6-1, 240) arrived Tuesday, and immediately made a great impression on the Irrelevant Week team including Melanie Fitch\u2019s husband Ed Fitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an incredible young man,\u201d Ed Fitch said. \u201cVery polite. Everything is \u2018yes sir, no sir, yes ma\u2019m, no ma\u2019am.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This week is Murdock\u2019s first visit to California.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of friendly people,\u201d said Murdock, who at times appeared stunned by all of the goings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Several Mr. Irrelevants got a roster spot from the team that selected them. Most notable is Brock Purdy, 49ers quarterback who was Mr.\u00a0 Irrelevant 2022. Taking a look at what he has has made of his life, Murdock just might the next Mr. Irrelevant to have a fine career in pro football.<\/p>\n

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