Sure, kickers get their moments in
the sun, but at the end of the day
they’re still kickers.
All right, so you what’s lame? Lame is jumping onto a bike that has no seat.
You know what’s lamer than lame? Eating a bowl of burnt Frosted Flakes and then having your little brother ask if anyone has seen his scab collection.
So, what would be even lamer than that? Well, how about booting a last-second, game-winning field goal against a conference foe and then going home to celebrate and finding your pad penetrated and violated? Just ask Georgia kicker Brandon Coutu what a kick to the groin spirit that can be because that’s exactly what happened to him on Saturday.
The Georgia kicker walked into his Athens home after kicking a game-winning field goal at Vanderbilt and found that burglars had ransacked the place and stolen almost everything of value and some of sentimental value, such as SEC championship and bowl gifts.
“They took a lot of stuff, a lot of things that were important to him,” said Ron Coutu, Brandon’s father. “They took a TV with an SEC logo on it, an Xbox, iPods, computer, a bunch of electronic-type stuff.”
Coutu learned of the break-in on his way back from the Vanderbilt game. A friend had gone to the house and was to meet Coutu there for a celebration. After finding the back door kicked in, he went in, discovered the burglary and called Coutu.
“It was not fun having to tell him,” Ron Coutu said. “Obviously it was a big night for him and he walked in there frustrated.
The good news is that former gridiron standout O.J. Simpson has already been cleared since there was no sports memorabilia stolen. However, authorities have their suspicions that current rookie/fantasy football stud Adrain Peterson could be involved after he was found guilty of stealing the remaining shreds of dignity from a collapsing Bears franchise.
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[AJC.com]: Burglars break into Coutu’s house over weekend