Prank Ideas That Pete Carroll Has Passed On

"C'mon, pull it..."

Everybody knows that Pete Caroll loves a good prank. After all, we've seen him simulate a suicide; portray a murder; he's had police show up in meeting rooms trying to arrest a player; and we'll probably never forget the time that Pete totally punked Eric Wright by stashing 136 ecstasy pills in Eric's apartment. Good times, good times.

But there are some things that not even Pete Carroll would do to get a rise out of his players. Here are a few of them:

1) The old, "Hey, your mom's on the phone and she says you're dad is [stifled laugh] in intensive care" gag. Why no Pete? Pete doesn't like to get the families involved in his pranks because as any shenaniganer will tell you--old people hold grudges. So Pete prefers to keep pranks in-house and usually only involving his buds, Indian casinos and the LAPD.

2) "Man on Fire." Why No Pete? (If you're not familiar with "Man on Fire", it's essentially a prank in which you have a normal, everyday setting going on, and then you introduce a man in flames stumbling around bumping into stuff.) Pete doesn't do "Man on Fire" anymore because he's lost three houses trying to perfect this prank. Almost as bad is the fact that he's gone through three different "Men on Fire". Sadly, insurance companies are essentially putting pranksters out of business.

3) "Ha Ha, You've Got No Brakes!" Why No Pete? No matter how strong the pull of pranking becomes to Pete, his job is still to win. He can't win when he's cutting players' brakes and something unfortunate happens--even if it is all in good fun. Sometimes common sense has to win out. Unfortunately.

4) "The Stanford Game." Why No Pete? "The Stanford Game" is a super-elaborate prank involving all but one of the 100+ USC Trojans pretending to get beaten by Stanford. This prank has only been pulled once, but it was pulled off too well. Pete pulled the prank on starting quarterback John David Booty, and boy howdy, did it work. Pete's amazing ability to fool people and catch them off guard still has them fooled into thinking that Stanford actually beat USC in 2007. Don't expect Pete to attempt this one again any time soon as the prank is just too difficult to pull off with so many moving parts. It is believed that the only other hoax that has been this widely accepted as fact is Roger Patterson's 1967 film of Bigfoot.

(The rest of this film shows

Pete Carroll throwing Bigfoot

off of a roof.)