Major League Faker

I love this story. Here’s the lead paragraphs from a Wash Post article I just read(and this is the picture too).

“It was quite a scene in the Fernley (Nev.) High gym on Friday. A 6-foot-5, 290-pound football player, seated at a table with his coach beside him, was making his college selection before a cheering crowd. On the table before him were a pair of baseball caps — one from the University of California and one from the University of Oregon.

The player reached for the blue Cal hat, bent the visor, and placed it on his head, signifying that he was accepting a scholarship to play at the school and would officially sign his letter-of-intent today, the first day senior high school football players can do so. Television crews and a newspaper reporter were present for what was believed to be the first Division I college athlete from the town of Fernley (pop. 19,700).

Hours later, the feel-good story began to fall apart.

Neither California, Oregon — nor any of the handful of other college football programs mentioned by Kevin Hart — had offered him a scholarship. In fact, some of the schools he mentioned had never put his name into their databases to send players recruiting literature.”

How amazing is that??? HE FAKED IT! And he fooled not only his friends, and family, but his coach, his principal, the whole high school, the local news. Wow.