Even though he fell short of reaching the NFL, former UCLA quarterback Kevin Craft doesn't curse his past, but rather, embraces it.

For him, football is football, whether it's played at the Rose Bowl, or in France, or even in Japan.

Craft, who played for a French team, Cougars de Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone, last year before landing in Japan to play for the IBM BigBlue in the nation's corporate-oriented X League this spring, said in a recent interview that he just pays attention to what he is doing at the moment.