Silly rabbit, football is for kids
ESPN's "SportsCenter" feature that'll play on Sunday's 8 p.m. show involves ... here's how the PR department describes it:
"(It) will show how the Florida Everglades’ ritual of rabbit chasing has helped produce some of the country’s best football players. Belle Glade and the surrounding area are known as “Muck City” because of the large quantity of mud in which sugarcane grows.
"Each March, when the fields are set ablaze to burn leaves off the stalks before the cane is harvested, football players wait for rabbits to emerge. Then they chase and catch them. Fred Taylor of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Santonio Holmes of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Anquan Boldin of the Arizona Cardinals are a few who have benefited from the annual ritual that helps athletes become faster football players."
Says Florida State coach Bobby Bowden in the piece: “Well, I would say that a guy that lives on the beach can swim better than a guy that lives in the Everglades. Now, I’d say a guy that chases rabbits has a chance to be better than a guy that doesn’t chase rabbits.”
Meaning, USC and UCLA could kick the Seminoles' rear ends in ... catching a wave?