Courtesy KCchiefs.com

For five straight seasons, Trent Green was one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Green is a guy the Kansas City Chiefs and owner Carl Peterson could count on each season to trot onto the field for 16 games and throw for roughly 4,000 yards and 24 touchdowns.

For those five seasons, from 2001 through 2005, Trent Green was as steady as any quarterback in the league. Chiefs fans adored him and, supposedly, team owner Carl Peterson loved Green like he was family.

I'm sure happy that I'm not part of Peterson's family.

Peterson is treating Green, who missed most of 2006 with a severe concussion, as if Green were little Annie, romping around at the Dickensian orphanage. Where is Daddy Warbucks when Trent Green needs him?

The once-proud Trent Green has become a bigger lame duck in KC than George Bush in DC. Peterson wants nothing to do with Green, who will eventually be released by the Chiefs.

The biggest injustice is making Green wait. The Miami Dolphins want Green, but the Chiefs can hang on to Green until the NFL pre-season begins in August, while Peterson awaits a trade offer that will never come.

Meanwhile, Little Orphan Trent waits.