« DMV: The End of Days for Manager Acta? | Home | I Guess Art Monk Was Busy That Day »
Video: Chris Cooley Throws Like a Girl
By Jamie Mottram | June 15, 2009
We’re big fans of Chris Cooley, and he’s doing a good thing here working with kids, but, he really, really can’t throw a football:
Considering he was two-sport star in high school and one of those sports was, you know, football, this is a bit surprising. That is, until considering his second sport: wrestling. And everyone knows that wrestlers (and lacrosse players) only wrestle (and play sweet lax) because they aren’t good at other things, like throwing.
(Video via Chris Cooley via The Redskins Blog.)
(Apologies to anyone offended by this post, including females, wrestlers, lacrosse players, the Cooleys and/or people who can’t throw good.)
UPDATE: The brothers Mottram have challenged the brothers Cooley to a throw-off, and the Cooleys have accepted. Now we must establish the rules of said competition. Lil’ help?
Topics: Chris Cooley, Redskins | 9 Comments »
June 15th, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Could he just be trying to throw softies because they are kids?
June 15th, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Anita Marks would like a word with you. Or 20.
http://www.anitamarks.com/bio.htm
June 15th, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Some how you have to work shots of bourbon into the competition. And I think Smoot needs to be a judge.
After the throw-off, how about a dance-off?
June 15th, 2009 at 4:44 PM
maybe because getting drilled in the face by a football isn’t the lasting memory Chris wanted his campers to leave with.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:45 PM
If bourbon shots are involved, the two Chris’s will cancel each other out, and there won’t be any left for Tanner and I.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:53 PM
@Comment 1 and 4: The issue isn’t the velocity with which he threw the ball, but rather the basic throwing mechanics that we are questioning.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:59 PM
It’s an absolute necessity to have both a distance competition and accuracy.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Distance should be easy enough (stand on the goal line and see how far we can hurl it).
Same with accuracy (maybe stand on the 10 and see how many throws it takes to hit the goalpost).
I’m at a loss for a third thing though, and we kinda need a third thing in case of a split.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:38 PM
There are a couple of viable options. There can be a roll out pass competition that tests both arm strength and accuracy. Each person rolls out right five times and left five times throwing at the goal post. There could also be a winner take all game of “21″ Back up 15 to 20 yards and you get 2 points if the other person catches it in front of the head/face and one point if they catch it in the body.