Coach Pete Carroll's Fall Camp Practical Joke (video)

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Pete Carroll plays joke on his USC football team
Published 8/15/2008 by King Ing at Sports Crackle Pop
USC head football coach is a prankster. He pulled a April Fools joke on defensive end Everson Griffen and this past Sunday in camp he decided to play one on his whole team. Carroll says that defensive end Kyle Moore was caught by police in an internet piracy ring, but in the end tells his team in lieu of practice the team will go bowling instead. The players seem to have enjoyed it. What’s with coach picking on the d-ends for? -Via BustedCoverage from USCRipsIt

The Obligatory Pete Carroll Practical Joke Post
Published 8/20/2008 at FanHouse
Filed under: USC, Pac 10, NCAA FB VideoIt's more than a little hard to hear, but we get a rare glimpse at Pete Carroll's serious voice. The end reward isn't the most exciting thing around, but the players get to skip practice and Carroll's plenty fired up. It's not exactly Carroll jumping around in a Wonderbread racing suit, but that's ok.   Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Friday Headlinin': Pac Ten quarterbacks edition
Published 8/22/2008 by Matt Hinton at Dr. Saturday
• Now Leave Us Alone, Please. After months of oscillating between senior slinger and incumbent Nate Longshore and more mobile sophomore Kevin Riley, Cal has finally made its bed at quarterback, per Jeff Tedford: ...

Short and Sweet
Published 9/11/2008 by Sturminator (noreply@blogger.com) at Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville
Thursday means quickly.... He is a Jedi, and he helps people …. Meanwhile, even as devout football fans, the Whites had been on the road and out of touch with the NFL events. They particularly didn't want to know the Dallas Cowboys' outcome. The TiVo at home was waiting. Bill planned to watch the Cleveland game immediately, with suspense attached. But a couple of miles from the house, while driving on MacArthur Boulevard, the Whites had their own mini-disaster. A tire blew on the Mercury. Bill, luckily, managed to nurse his wounded ride off the street and into the lighted parking lot of a strip mall. For ...

Pete Carroll's Pranks Involve Fire, Speedos
Published 18 days ago at The Sporting Blog
Pete Carroll is known for pranks. In 2005, LenDale White chucked a dummy off a nearby parking garage for a side-splitting fake suicide. (Really, you had to be there. Also, LenDale White ate the dummy afterwards, which was funny, albeit in a equally horrifying way.) He has also had mock arrests ...

Pete Carroll calls on Will Ferrell to keep Trojan practices classy
Published 18 days ago by Matt Hinton at Dr. Saturday
It's Washington week, USC is a 43-point favorite, Will Ferrell has nothing in particular to do once he's found a new use for his pale, hairy potbelly for the day. So why not have the SC alum have a little fun rescuing a pair of dying men at the Trojans' practice Thursday? A stuntman fell from a platform, another ran across the field on fire. Both were "saved" by actor Will Ferrell, who wore a mask, half an Ironman costume and a Speedo-style swimsuit as Captain Compete. [...] Offensive line coach Pat Ruel began yelling at a man atop a mechanical lift used for filming practice. The man fell from the lift, on the street ...