Finally, A Competition Dick Jauron Can Win
Being able to hopelessly criticize every aspect of your football team isn’t always a bad thing. Last week football coaches from Orange County, Orlando gathered for the sportsmanship-themed tradition of the “Crying Towel”—a competition where coaches try and explain to each other why their teams have no chance of winning. The coach who tells the best sob story wins the Crying Towel Award.
So what exactly does that entail? Well, here are a few out of context highlights.
“I looked at Edgewater and saw 300, 300, 300, I might have seen a 400. Then I went to our kids and said we’re going win it all this year. I said, yup, we’re going to win it all. We’re going to win the sportsmanship award.”
“Since we have no quarterback, I went ahead and installed the single-wing offense. No quarterback. Since we weren’t going to have a quarterback we’re not going to have any wide receivers, either.”
“The week before we play Edgewater, I think they play the Klingons for interstellar domination.”
I find it very reassuring that the Jim Mora tradition of openly discussing your team’s inadequacies is still going strong. It’s also nice to see some friendly preseason banter that doesn’t involve Les Miles’ “everybody sucks but us” declarations.
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