Wasted one perfectly good your mom joke and for what?

And here I spent all that time thinking of a really witty, biting, original joke about the coach confusing the hippo with his mother. A wasted your mom/ mother in law joke! Why, why Steve Crosby (Chargers special teams coach)?!



It turns out that the old "there's a Hippo in my pool because of the raging wild fires taking over San Diego, isn't that HILARIOUS" story is a FAKE! From the North County Times:


Crosby, a world-class prankster, couldn't resist his comedic moment. And before long, his tale was on the road to becoming an urban legend."I was just trying to loosen everyone up,'' Crosby said Friday. "It was during the fires, and everyone was worried about their houses and everything.''Crosby and his wife, Lisa, live near the Wild Animal Park. Close enough, one can surmise, for their backyard to offer an oasis if any wildlife escaped.So with his special-teams players listening, Crosby told of the hippo that slipped out of the Wild Animal Park through a charred wall, smashed through Crosby's backyard and took residence in his pool.



But with a little digging (or say, "reporting" as those OLD school people do) one could find out that: "We don't have hippopotamus at the Wild Animal Park,'' park spokesperson Yadira Galindo said. "That is the key."


HA, fact checking, calling for a comment, checking on the story before running with it, OLD SCHOOL.