In Saturday's newspaper I wrote about the one that couldn't go to camp, Mike Rucker, instead of the ones who did. Rucker, who retired in April, talked about how much he missed his teammates. He said he missed the jokes and the practical jokes and said the three players you don't mess with are running back Nick Goings, quarterback Jake Delhomme and fullback Brad Hoover.
Hoover says Rucker is right.
"We never instigate it," says Hoover. "But we don't stop."
One of Rucker's tricks is to take a packet of ammonia and slip it beneath the nose of a teammate snoozing on the massage table.
Here's why you don't mess with Hoover: He'll take several packets, put them in a box, perforate the box and slip the whole thing into the chamber in which the players stick their head. The victim doesn't so much wake up instantly as he does go from zero to 60.
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Posted by: WPR IV | July 28, 2008 at 01:29 AM