AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Arkansas football player wore a helmet with a venomous snake inside it for an hour before coaches found it
A high school football player in Maumelle, Arkansas, practiced for roughly an hour with a two-foot-long cottonmouth, one of the state's most dangerous snakes, coiled inside his helmet before anyone realized what was sharing the headgear. The player, whose name has not been released, was going through drills with his position group when he felt […] The post Arkansas football player wore a helmet with a venomous snake inside it for an hour before coaches found it appeared first on American Almanac .
A high school football player in Maumelle, Arkansas, practiced for roughly an hour with a two-foot-long cottonmouth, one of the state's most dangerous snakes, coiled inside his helmet before anyone realized what was sharing the headgear. The player, whose name has not been released, was going through drills with his position group when he felt something shift inside the helmet. He pulled it off and handed it to a defensive coach. What they found wedged beneath the padding was not a loose strap or a broken clip. It was a live, venomous snake. Athletic Director Kirk Horton called Animal Services immediately. Officers arrived expecting a copperhead, based on the initial report. They found something worse: a cottonmouth, ranked by Animal…Open