Joel McHale Was on the Huskies Football Team (Really)

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I was in a fraternity with a bunch of football players for two rocky quarters at the University of Washington. It was a football house, but I got along with them really well. A great player named Chico Fraley asked me, “Why don’t you try out for football?” And I thought, Ah, yes, I do want to die. But that’s what I did. I walked on.

—Joel McHale, star of NBC’s Community, speaking with sports website Grantland