Chris Cooley made the request nearly a year ago. Jim Zorn finally honored it Wednesday.
Cooley told Zorn other teams play music before practice and wanted to know if they could do it here.
“It took me a long time to decide,” Zorn said.
But he finally said yes. So before practice started, and while the players stretched, Zorn had music blaring over the loudspeakers, including Jay-Z and Metallica.
“That’s when you can tell that this league has evolved,” fullback Mike Sellers said, “when you come out to music. It boosted everyone around. Everyone was dragging, but when you listen to music it lifts you up. A lot of other guys on the field felt great about practice. I felt even better. It was nice.”
Zorn said, “I thought it would loosen everyone up and it did.”
