We were going to talk about Michael Vick. But then we read another Q&A with Redskins tight end Chris Cooley online. Cooley is too good to ignore.
In an interview on SI.com talking about an athlete’s life on the road, Cooley related a story from his rookie season:
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“We were playing in Denver during my second season and I was trying to fit in with all the guys. So, Cory Raymer had an entire backpack full of mini bottles of Jack Daniels. So we got into a drinking contest on the bus. The next day I found 13 or 14 of those bottles, empty, in my bag. And this was just on the bus to the airport after a game. Before we even took off, I’m conducting the pre-flight announcements. Twenty minutes into the plane ride I’m on the floor in the aisle eating out of an applesauce container. Needless to say, I had a visit with the head coach [Joe Gibbs] the next morning.”
Our colleague Rick Snider is right: Cooley is the new John Riggins.