UPDATE: Behind The Scenes Of A Texas HS Football Coach Branded By His Team
I covered this last night but new details have come to light (at the bottom of this blog). Why have I gotten so into this story from a Texas High School? Your guess is as good as mine… anyways…
This video (originally from 2016) popped up on my feed tonight & looked like it was about to start making the viral-rounds, so I decided to cancel all of my hot dates (sorry house plants, will water you later) & investigate.
Was it real?! Was it fake?! Was it still peak price hours for a Lyft home from this pub?! Damn… Yes. Well I’m not paying $34 to go 5 miles so let’s get to it then. I’ve got time to kill.
Like I said, I had a lot of questions about this video & luckily found most of those answers among its commenters. Am I taking Twitter comments/convos as tried & true facts in this case? It took me about a decade to get a degree in Communications & I’ve had a couple beers so, yeah, yep. Absolutely.
First off – who is that coach guy?
Got it. Greg Wright. But ok, who the hell is Greg Wright?
Ah, an AP History teacher. But why did she miss him? I needed to know out of respect, and so I didn’t get yelled at for blogging about him if he had a freshly grieving family or something.
Alright, now we’ve got clearance. Let’s get the real story straight from the guy who branded coach Greg Wright who is totally alive & well:
Wild… a coach letting his students brand him with a blazing poker? Unsat! You don’t want to believe it & it’s weird that he didn’t flinch & you don’t know what a football brander looks like & you’re incredibly gullible… but it is Texas… so who wouldn’t be on the verge of being triggered, as I’m… er, we’re… known to do.
But wait.. now claims that the video is indeed a fake?! That it was a joke?! Ever the pretend journalist I did my due diligence.
“Tell your friend not to get their panties in a wad.”
?!?!?!
Buddy,,, I wear large, high-waisted, full-coverage Hanes. My panties are in a perpetual wad. Anyways… on with the professional digging.
Ope! So the whole thing was a joke which I’m pleased to have known the entire time even though Jude thinks I’m a big dummy now. Heh, jokes on him, amiright?! Guys? Guys?! Anyways, Lyft prices down to $25 so I’m outta here.
******UPDATE******
I’ve been informed that Jude is actually the dummy (I still am as well though) because he’s referring to some other game from a long time ago which I didn’t understand because his joke was bad. And also because I was so skeptical. I didn’t get why the video was popping back up after all these years & why there’s no smoke or cracklin’ on his skin, etc…
But as for the branding tool… actually real & Greg Wright really does have a bunch of team logos burned into his skin. The reason he didn’t flinch? He’s so used to it.
Not sure how or why I got so involved in this story but holy shitballs, Texas is another planet.