Pat Summitt Hates Raccoons
I’m embarrassed for all of us on this one. We finally get a men’s basketball team worth a damn and our women’s coach who has long been considered one of the toughest women in basketball…check that, in the world; has this happen:
Tennessee coach Pat Summitt didn’t look too uncomfortable Friday, jumping up and down on the sideline in the Southeastern Conference tournament.
Not bad for someone who dislocated a shoulder in an encounter with a raccoon.
Summitt had taken her golden Labrador out for a walk Wednesday night when they came back to find the raccoon on the deck at her home.
“I momentarily lost it,” Summitt told WBIR-TV in Knoxville. “The raccoon was about to attack. I just knocked it off the deck, and fortunately nothing happened but a dislocated shoulder, and it’s back in place.”
I think this may have set Tennesseans back about 50 years and women’s rights back about 200. A freaking coon nearly caused her to nearly break her shoulder. I bet Bruce Pearl wouldn’t have been scared. He’d of probably gave that coon a big old Erin Andrews hug, shook its paw, and sent it on its merry way. But Pat picked the time to turn into a total girl. No word yet on what the raccoon’s intentions toward Summitt were. We’ll try to get an interview as soon as the rodent is apprehended.