Howdy Ya’ll!
My name is Cole McCoy, but you can call me “Cowboy Cole!” I’ve been playing football all my life ever since I was a youngin’ in Pop Warner and even then I was always the starting quarterback. I played high school football at Klein Collins and won lots of awards in my junior and senior years including AP 6A Offensive MVP and was First-team All-state for 3 years. Can I get a yee-haw?!? Anyways, I finished my high school games with 530/856 passes for 9,465 yards and 110 touchdowns. I earned the nickname “Cowboy Cole” because my coach said I needed to throw that ball like a old timey gunslinger to really impress everybody and win games.
After high school, I went to University of Texas at Austin and played for the Longhorns. It was tough to get that starting spot, but I kept my head in the game and avoided all those darn distractions like drinking, partying, and girls (I do love me some southern belles though, mmmhmmm). I ended up starting for a few games my sophomore year and did good especially against Ohio State who was ranked #3 at the time. We beat them at home and I got one touchdown after going 15/28 for 176 yards. After that game, I was paintin’ the town and the front porch! We ended up going to the Fiesta Bowl and Alamo Bowl my sophomore and junior years and winning the Alamo Bowl easily 27-7. I set the record for most consecutive pass completions that game with 13!
My senior year was a different story since I got as fat as a boardinghouse cat and looked so big that people asked me if I ate my own brother! I felt a lot of pressure going into my senior year and couldn’t deal with all the drama so I stopped training. Pigs get fat; hogs get slaughtered as we say down here. I still started at quarterback in the beginning of the season, but coach and the team weren’t happy about my new belly and I got pretty lazy during practice. I thought I could get by with my good looks and pistol fast arm, but there’s only so much that you can get by without some good old fashioned training. I got a ton of heat from the press and fans and all those Longhorn fans turned on me once we started losing some games in the middle of the season. They absolutely hated me and that’s when I knew how fast those same fans could love you one minute and would turn on you in a blink of an eye. You would think that would like a fire under my ass, but I just couldn’t do it anymore and left the team to finish my degree.
After gettin’ caught in my own loop, my mama told me to stop gagglin’ around and get back to football since that’s all I knew my whole life. She said “Cole you got plenty of arrows in your quiver and football is what God put you on this Earth to do so you better get to it!.” You know mama knows best! I got my ass in gear again and hit the gym to lose some weight. I got back down 215 after dropping 40 pounds. I was looking to get into some semi-professional leagues and heard about the NSFL so I decided to see if any of the teams there would pick me up. After talking with some folks, I knew that I needed a big change and I couldn’t stay in Texas after the way they treated me. I was done with the entire state and I reckon it was done with me too.
That’s all I got for now folks! I’m fixin’ to write another post about my new team soon! I'm hoping on a flight early tomorrow morning to head to Portland! That's the furthest North I've been! Yee-hawwwwww!!!
My name is Cole McCoy, but you can call me “Cowboy Cole!” I’ve been playing football all my life ever since I was a youngin’ in Pop Warner and even then I was always the starting quarterback. I played high school football at Klein Collins and won lots of awards in my junior and senior years including AP 6A Offensive MVP and was First-team All-state for 3 years. Can I get a yee-haw?!? Anyways, I finished my high school games with 530/856 passes for 9,465 yards and 110 touchdowns. I earned the nickname “Cowboy Cole” because my coach said I needed to throw that ball like a old timey gunslinger to really impress everybody and win games.
After high school, I went to University of Texas at Austin and played for the Longhorns. It was tough to get that starting spot, but I kept my head in the game and avoided all those darn distractions like drinking, partying, and girls (I do love me some southern belles though, mmmhmmm). I ended up starting for a few games my sophomore year and did good especially against Ohio State who was ranked #3 at the time. We beat them at home and I got one touchdown after going 15/28 for 176 yards. After that game, I was paintin’ the town and the front porch! We ended up going to the Fiesta Bowl and Alamo Bowl my sophomore and junior years and winning the Alamo Bowl easily 27-7. I set the record for most consecutive pass completions that game with 13!
My senior year was a different story since I got as fat as a boardinghouse cat and looked so big that people asked me if I ate my own brother! I felt a lot of pressure going into my senior year and couldn’t deal with all the drama so I stopped training. Pigs get fat; hogs get slaughtered as we say down here. I still started at quarterback in the beginning of the season, but coach and the team weren’t happy about my new belly and I got pretty lazy during practice. I thought I could get by with my good looks and pistol fast arm, but there’s only so much that you can get by without some good old fashioned training. I got a ton of heat from the press and fans and all those Longhorn fans turned on me once we started losing some games in the middle of the season. They absolutely hated me and that’s when I knew how fast those same fans could love you one minute and would turn on you in a blink of an eye. You would think that would like a fire under my ass, but I just couldn’t do it anymore and left the team to finish my degree.
After gettin’ caught in my own loop, my mama told me to stop gagglin’ around and get back to football since that’s all I knew my whole life. She said “Cole you got plenty of arrows in your quiver and football is what God put you on this Earth to do so you better get to it!.” You know mama knows best! I got my ass in gear again and hit the gym to lose some weight. I got back down 215 after dropping 40 pounds. I was looking to get into some semi-professional leagues and heard about the NSFL so I decided to see if any of the teams there would pick me up. After talking with some folks, I knew that I needed a big change and I couldn’t stay in Texas after the way they treated me. I was done with the entire state and I reckon it was done with me too.
That’s all I got for now folks! I’m fixin’ to write another post about my new team soon! I'm hoping on a flight early tomorrow morning to head to Portland! That's the furthest North I've been! Yee-hawwwwww!!!
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