Two of my favorite stories involving Russ Grimm. Joe Bugel told one last month, but before we get to that one, my favorite involved longtime trainer Bubba Tyer.
Grimm, by now a Redskins coach, had filled Tyer’s car with popcorn one day in training camp, which, of course, was not amusing to the trainer. It was to others. But Tyer plotted his revenge. One day at practice, when Grimm was on the practice field, Tyer brought out Grimm’s clothes and put them in a pile. He waved to Grimm on the field and the coach waved back. He had no clue as to what Tyer was doing.
Then Tyer lit a match and then lit the pile of clothes on fire. The film crew caught the whole episode on tape. Later that season, coach Norv Turner played the tape to the team to illustrate how to get revenge on someone.
OK, now the gross one, which many of you probably read last month when the media first heard about it (courtesy of Bugel at his retirement press conference). Anyway, we’ll let Bugel take it from here:
“We practiced on Wednesday nights [during training camp]. They had a nice little bar in Carlisle, they had chili dogs and stuff like that. So we had [practice] that night and I got in the huddle and it smelled like a brewery. And [Grimm] got a little overheated. And I don’t mean to say throw up, but he threw up, and he threw up a hot dog. It hit the grass.”
Now our turn. Grimm picked up the hot dog and, while one ball boy said, “Mr. Grimm, you can’t do that,” Grimm ate the hot dog. Again. Then he said, “Can’t waste a good dog.”
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