According to Ty, the Eagles wanted Koy to fake a knee injury and go on injured reserve during his rookie season of 1997. \u00a0From there the story gets ridiculous and funny all at the same time.<\/p>\n
I am not a big fan of long copied segments of text but to truly appreciate this story\u00a0you have to read it all.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Koy] came up to me like a couple days before that day and was like \u2018hey, they want me to go on injured reserve so they can keep me around, what do you think?,\u2019 Detmer said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018well, if they\u2019re going to keep you around, you know I wouldn\u2019t not<\/em> do it.\u2019 So that day before practice he comes up and he\u2019s like \u2018okay, today\u2019s the day they told me.\u2019<\/p>\n\u201cSo, we\u2019re kind of in team period at the end of practice and they\u2019re like \u2018alright, Koy, you\u2019re in!\u2019 And so, he kind of goes in, runs a play, runs another play and then he looks at me and gives me this wink as he\u2019s stepping in to call the play. And so I\u2019m like, trying not to laugh cause I\u2019m like, how is this gonna go down, you know? It\u2019s a running play. He hands off and and as he\u2019s coming out after the hand off to carry out his bootleg fake, he goes down and rolls around and grabs his knee.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd oh man, you know, the whole practice kinda stops like, \u2018what happened?\u2019 And guys were coming up to me and, \u2018oh man is this the same knee he hurt at Colorado?\u2019 And I\u2019m like \u2018yeah I think so I don\u2019t know, maybe he just you know twisted it a little or something.\u2019 So they end up bringing the cart out and they cart him off the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, practice ends and I go into the training room you know, and there he is laying on the training room table with a towel over his face and I just kind of raised the corner up and peeked and he\u2019s got this big old grin on his face. You know like \u2018how was that for my acting job?\u2019 I had to get out of there because I was about to just die laughing. And the rest of the team, you can\u2019t say anything because nobody is supposed to know.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd they\u2019re all coming up giving their condolences and everything. And he leaves the training room facility with a big old knee brace on and crutches. Kinda like a guy that\u2019s committing insurance fraud. You get home and you throw the crutches on the ground and walk around and do all your stuff at home without the big brace on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was one of the funniest things I\u2019ve seen because I knew what was coming and knew what was going on and nobody else did at the time except for a couple of the coaches.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which coaches knew?<\/p>\n
\u201cWell I\u2019m sure [offensive coordinator, John] Gruden does because he totally knew it was time to take the dive,\u201d Detmer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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