Players get juiced at prebowl competition
KISSIMMEE, FLA. ? They lined up side by side, muscles bulging from the rolled-up sleeves of their Kansas University football jerseys.
The game faces of Joe Vaughn, Danny Lewis and Banks Floodman were all present. A little happier than normal, but game faces nonetheless.
To the left of KU’s guys, North Carolina State had three of its own preparing for battle: Sean Locklear, Cotra Jackson and Justin Wortham.
All but Jackson are — to put it bluntly — big guys. It seemed their size and strength would come in handy Sunday, though not for football. They players faced off in the Tangerine Squeeze-Off Competition at the Give Kids the World village in Kissimmee, Fla.
The players weren’t using their talents in preparation for the Tangerine Bowl, which kicks off at 4:30 p.m. today in Orlando. Not Sunday morning. Instead, they were teaming with children to squeeze the living daylight out of fruit, trying to make more juice than the Wolfpack trio and their helpers.
One would think KU chose Vaughn (6-foot-1, 280 pounds), Lewis (6-4, 295) and Floodman (6-3, 230) to transform brawn to tangerine juice. Floodman denies the allegation.
“We just chose three guys at random,” Floodman said. “We just happened to all be big.”