RealClearSports.com compiled a list of the top 10 NFL training camp pranks.
#5 Olin Kreutz Pranks Kyle Orton
Fans are always asking for autographs at training camp, but players should be weary when another player is asking for an autograph. At Bears Camp in 2005 Bears’ Center Olin Kreutz asked rookie QB Kyle Orton if he could sign a helmet for his family. What Orton didn’t realize is that he had just signed his own helmet and would now have to practice in it.#2 Mike Alstott Gets The Last Laugh
As a rookie sometimes it is best to just do what you’re told. In 2005, Mike Alstott asked rookie OT Chris Colmer to go get him a Gatorade. Instead, Colmer came back with a map detailing where Alstott could find the refrigerator. Colmer probably got a good laugh out of that until Alstott put Colmer’s car up on blocks and left a map on the windshield of the car detailing where he had left the tires.#1 Dilfer’s Prank Foiled
Trent Dilfer might have won a Super Bowl, but he was not able to pull off his hilarious prank against center Robbie Tobeck. Dilfer smeared icy-hot inside Tobeck’s shorts, but Tobeck realized it before slipping on the pair. Just for thinking of such a painful prank Dilfer deserved payback. The pain that would have enveloped Tobeck had he put on those shorts would have been unimaginable. Putting that stuff anywhere stings, let alone a very sensitive area.Tobeck responded by purchasing the extremely potent coyote urine from an outdoors store. It’s used by hunters to attract coyotes, but Tobeck had a different use in mind. He covered Dilfer’s room in the pungent aroma which took Dilfer hours to scrub away.
Imagine how many prank stories we don’t hear from training camps. Think about it, you have 80-plus grown men practicing twice (or three times) a day in 90-degree heat and that’s it. Two weeks of that. Something has to give.
