Though you probably don't know him, please take a moment to give thanks to Uncle Art, the man who helped J.P. Losman return to our lives.
Uncle Art -- no last name, according to Losman -- worked with the quarterback before his signing with the Miami Dolphins in October. Uncle Art would run pass patterns, hauling in nearly everything Losman threw his way at Santa Monica (Calif.) Community College.
"Actually he's 5-foot-6 -- dark Mexican man," Losman joked, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. "He has excellent hands. He's a very, very good athlete. He was a high school star until, from what I'm told until, senior year, he did the 'Funky Chicken' and the coach kicked him out. He couldn't play his senior year of football (at Venice, Calif., High School). Ever since then, he thought he should have made it to the NFL. That's Uncle Art."
(For those of you who don't know the "Funky Chicken," here's a man who looks strikingly similar to Keenan Ivory Wayans explaining how to do it. Not sure how this gets you kicked off a football team. A little more exposition from Losman would have helped there.)
Losman, 30, is set to make his first NFL start since 2008 on Sunday against the Bills, who just so happen to be the team that selected him in the first round of the 2004 draft. Losman had a undistinguished five-year run in Buffalo, going 10-23 as a starter. Despite that, the veteran said he has "nothing to prove."
Losman promised his uncle he would name drop him if he ever made it back into the starting lineup of an NFL team. His wish now granted, Uncle Art can go back to betting other nephews he can throw a football over them mountains.
