Brad, yours is a very nice gesture re: your/our friend Francis but he needs no defense - we know him and who he is - he is one of us.
Yup, he does go on and on and even gets a bit side-tracked but a truer friend and a more devoted sportsman would be damned hard to find. And I don't know anyone else in this world who has a more encyclopedic knowledge of most anything we could toss at him.
