Iowa to hire "player chaperons"

[ketelmeister]

This from the DM Rag:

Iowa to hire Player Chaperon

Iowa City-University of Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz has announced that "player chaperons" will be hired for the Summer for all University of Iowa football players. According to Ferentz, the chaperons will be with the players at all times after 5 pm, to assure no future incident occur on the team.
"We are already very short on players," said the head coach, "we just can't afford to lose anymore to petty violations."
In addition, Ferentz announced new policies for the football team. The entire team will be required to stay in Iowa City all summer. And the new announcements include:
Monday night will be favorite board game night
Tuesday night share your favorite story night
Wednesday night's will feature an old fashion marshmellow roast.
And other activities will include checkers, roller skating and bowling.
The coach said, "we want to put the fun back into being a Hawkeye." He added, the team will ban all computer games, ipods, interactive games and cell phones. "They are the work of the devil" explained Ferentz.

[CTAClone]

Originally Posted by ketelmeister

This from the DM Rag:

Iowa to hire Player Chaperon

Iowa City-University of Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz has announced that "player chaperons" will be hired for the Summer for all University of Iowa football players. According to Ferentz, the chaperons will be with the players at all times after 5 pm, to assure no future incident occur on the team.
"We are already very short on players," said the head coach, "we just can't afford to lose anymore to petty violations."
In addition, Ferentz announced new policies for the football team. The entire team will be required to stay in Iowa City all summer. And the new announcements include:
Monday night will be favorite board game night
Tuesday night share your favorite story night
Wednesday night's will feature an old fashion marshmellow roast.
And other activities will include checkers, roller skating and bowling.
The coach said, "we want to put the fun back into being a Hawkeye." He added, the team will ban all computer games, ipods, interactive games and cell phones. "They are the work of the devil" explained Ferentz.

I heard about Miami doing the same thing. From the Miami Herald:

Miami's Randy Shannon, who among five college football coaches who'll head to Kuwait and other military bases in the Middle East this summer, has instituted a chaperon program for their football team while he is gone.
"While our football players are stand up quality guys, I'm afraid what will happen if I'm not looking over their shoulders constantly," Shannon said.
Miami has been criticized with all of their off the field problems the last few years and Shannon is dedicated to cleaning up their image.
"The chaperon's will teach the players on how to act in public and how to avoid embarrassing the University. If we are going to continue to start fights on the field, the last thing we need is to start fights off the field," Shannon said. "We've done a vigorous screening process of our chaperons. All of them have sent in head shots and went through a stringent interview process. These girls will definitely keep the team occupied while gone."
Pictures have surfaced of these girls at.....

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[LindenCy]

April fool, right?

[SLCyclone]

April Fools, Right?

[travman23]

If you are going to pull an April 1 joke you might want to spell chaperones correctly...

[ketelmeister]

Originally Posted by travman23

If you are going to pull an April 1 joke you might want to spell chaperones correctly...

kudos to you...yes April fools and it is misspelledd.

[SeattleClone]

Originally Posted by travman23

If you are going to pull an April 1 joke you might want to spell chaperones correctly...

No, he's trying to make it look like it was quoted directly from the Rag. Spelling and grammatical errors only add to the realism.

[CTAClone]

Originally Posted by travman23

If you are going to pull an April 1 joke you might want to spell chaperones correctly...

Stupid Firefox. I thought that was the way it was spelled but Firefox says it's wrong.

[Phaedrus]

Okay, the first thing that went through my mind was "Escorts??? You mean they're going to hire HOOKERS???"

I mean, it worked for Mark Spitzer, didn't it???

[wartknight]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

Okay, the first thing that went through my mind was "Escorts??? You mean they're going to hire HOOKERS???"

I mean, it worked for Mark Spitzer, didn't it???

Elliot?8

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by wartknight

Elliot?8

Elliot, Idiot, Mark, whatever....

I had "Mark Spitz" in the brain, being an old geezer, myself....

Plus I was distracted by the thought of EIU hiring hookers for their football team.

[jdoggivjc]

Isn't chaperone just a French word for "prison warden?"