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Colt McCoy likes to shoot varmints. You may think I'm being elitist and coyly ironic in using the word "varmints," as in, "Ha ha, oh, the humor of rural ways and how it amuses my Mac-using, latte-sipping multi-degreed fat ass." I don't mean this at all. Colt likes to shoot varmints to get his anger out, and he said so himself on ESPN Radio with Tirico and Van Pelt today.
Transcribed from the original audio:
Mike Tirico: What did you do Saturday night? Did you watch Oklahoma?McCoy said this was "all good clean fun." If you're teetering about who to put on your Heisman ballot, please consider that Colt McCoy not only has a proactive approach towards anger management and superb aim, but he also shares a large amount of common vocabulary with Yosemite Sam. That, more than anything else, screams Heisman to me.Colt McCoy: No. .. I didn't see the point in watching the game ... I sat home with my parents -- you really want to know what I did Saturday night?
Scott Van Pelt: Yes, because I don't believe you didn't watch the game.
McCoy: Alright, well, I called up some buddies and we went spotlightin'. We went huntin', basically.
Van Pelt: Wait, you're talking to two city guys here. What the heck is spotlighting?
McCoy: It's basically where you get a spotlight, and you just kind of look for varmints and --
Van Pelt: Varmints? Possums? Armadillos?
McCoy: Yeah, Armadillos, anything really. You just have to go out there and shoot stuff to get all this anger out.
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I have a lot of respect for Colt Mc Coy, and I am well aware that he’s an outdoorsman and hunter. However, I can’t respect a guy/hunter who goes out and ‘spotlights’ and kills harmless, unaggressive opossums and armadillos for ‘fun!’
I don’t see how Colt justifies killing innocent nocturnal varmits as a way to vent his anger and frustration for his/my Longhorns not getting a spot in the BCS National Championship game.
Sorry, Colt, but as much as I’ve admired you as a young man and college athlete, my respect for you has diminished a bit if you did, in fact, ‘spotlight’ and slaughter varmits to blow off steam.
Sadly, you referred to it as good, clean fun!
by pncombies on Dec 9, 2008 9:07 PM EST reply actions
pncombies:
In Texas, varmint/nuisance animals (this includes armadillo and possum, which are not "harmless,") may be hunted on private property at any time of the year. You may also hunt at night, with lights, on private property. So…what exactly is wrong with what McCoy did?
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/annual/hunt/nongame/
by aupilot on Dec 9, 2008 10:56 PM EST reply actions
These varmits are serious disease-carrying animals. Colt is not in danger of wiping them out, but they damage land and spread disease, so the state of Texas has okayed the elimination of them. PNCOMBIES clearly was not raised in rural Texas (or any part of the rural South). People from the city or from upper-class backgrounds are not as exposed to this sort of pest control that is extremely common in the country with kids of current/former farmers/ranchers.
by AngryCorgi on Dec 10, 2008 9:08 AM EST reply actions
Gotta be country boy to know about these things.
by J Bone A on Dec 10, 2008 9:26 AM EST reply actions
I live in the City and the first time you have a run in with a mad possum you will understand!
by bevoguy2 on Dec 10, 2008 11:00 AM EST reply actions
For all of you city folks, just consider it shooting rats, only the critters Colt went after are bigger, nastier and carry more diseases. Plus, they (Armadillos) dig up holes in pastures, which have ended the lives of many a horse.
Probably too much info but urban dwellers enjoy watching horses and big hats and such…..ha ha
by The Killer 109 on Dec 10, 2008 11:21 AM EST reply actions
For all of you city folks, just consider it shooting rats, only the critters Colt went after are bigger, nastier and carry more diseases. Plus, they (Armadillos) dig up holes in pastures, which have ended the lives of many a horse.
Probably too much info but urban dwellers enjoy watching horses and big hats and such…..ha ha
by The Killer 109 on Dec 10, 2008 11:21 AM EST reply actions
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