New NFL Prospect's Secret Talent

Coach Miller was desperate for a winning season when he spotted a young man in the park effortlessly throwing a football sixty yards through a tire swing. He immediately ran over, handed the kid his business card, and told him to show up at the stadium the next morning for a tryout.

The next day, the kid arrives and the Coach is ecstatic. "Alright, kid," Coach Miller says, handing him a ball. "Let’s see that arm. Hit that receiver on the slant route."

The kid takes the ball, winds up, and launches it. It sails completely over the receiver, over the goalposts, and out of the stadium.

Coach Miller’s jaw drops. "That’s the most incredible strength I’ve ever seen! Where on earth did you learn to throw like that? Did you play in college? Are you from a family of athletes?"

The kid looks down at his hands and shrugs. "Actually, Coach, I’ve never played a down of football in my life. I spent the last three years working at the local zoo."

The Coach is baffled. "The zoo? What were you doing there that gave you an arm like that?"

"Well," the kid says, "my main job was throwing the medicine to the hippos, but the trick was I had to get it past the monkeys."