It’s a well known fact that locker room pranks have a way of building camaraderie, bringing teammates closer together, and just loosening some of the tension associated with the trials and tribulations of your average sports season. Some pranks, however, are a bit more “intense” than others. Say, sticking a dead animal in your teammate’s locker.
(Favre tries to keep himself from laughing)
The NEW YORK TIMES is reporting that newly-minted Jet Brett Favre made a special delivery inside of linebacker Eric Barton’s locker a few weeks ago. The item: An unknown dead animal that was encased in a bag “full of blood and guts”. Oh, Brett Favre. You’re incorrigible!
More from the NY TIMES:
Barton could not remember whether it happened last week or the week before. Nor did he know exactly what kind of dead animal Favre shot (presumably), bagged and dumped inside Barton’s locker.
Some teammates believe it was a wild turkey, but regardless, they all gathered around Barton’s locker and engaged in fits of laughter. The dead animal was inside a bag that was filled with blood and guts.
“It definitely had the wow factor,” said left guard Alan Faneca, whose locker is next to Barton’s. “I’ve never had a dead animal brought into the locker room, so yeah, it’s up there.”
Faneca presumably said this through gritted teeth, his eyes pleading with reporters to get him out of this madhouse, where grown men think it’s perfectly normal to hide dead animals inside others’ lockers, a place where madness reigns and no one is safe.
In any case, move over Ashton! There’s a new King of the Prank! And he’s clearly insane!
4:27 pm on October 7th, 2008
If Brett was still back in Wisconsin, they'd cook that dead animal up at the next team barbecue.
4:39 pm on October 7th, 2008
New nickname: Eric "Blood & Guts" Barton?
4:41 pm on October 7th, 2008
Figures Favre would try to hide his Wild Turkey in someone else's locker.
5:10 pm on October 7th, 2008
PETA's not gonna be pleased to hear this.
5:27 pm on October 7th, 2008
And after all PETA's done for us - like get Amanda Beard to pose naked:
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/amanda-beard-explains-nude-peta-ad-19254
5:29 pm on October 7th, 2008
Er, make that getting Amanda Beard to pose naked again:
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/amanda-beard-playboy-nude-photos-posted-13062
5:30 pm on October 7th, 2008
Tom Brady usually takes his teammates out to dinner, not bring in dead animals to cook.
5:32 pm on October 7th, 2008
If this happened to Brady, he'd start crying and go running, er, limping back to Gisele.
5:38 pm on October 7th, 2008
This would make a great "CSI" episode.
1:44 am on October 8th, 2008
Ive got a nice beaver if anyone wants 2 stuff n mount it? Cali area
10:44 am on October 8th, 2008
I think it's a mating ritual.
1:36 pm on October 8th, 2008
If you are going to kill it make sure you are going to eat. That is just straight up animal cruelty.
2:38 pm on October 8th, 2008
good stuff–im using this! and Props on getting it on Yahoo! Sports—
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Jets-locker-room-is-87-stinkier-since-Brett-Fav?urn=nfl,113469
1:30 am on October 9th, 2008
Pure brutality! This man needs to learn about respect and compassion for the living. And to think that our society looks up to men like these… God help us…
10:59 pm on October 9th, 2008
Sigh, wish Brett came to the Metrodome instead of the Meadowlands.