Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 26, 2016

Heather looks like she practicing hypnosis. “You will not have happy feet. You will not have happy feet.”

Heh, good one, Chip

IS practicing. Sorry about that.

Heather seems to have intimidated Hakeem. She must have threatened to Ben Gay his jock strap if he didn’t listen.

Maybe this is Gil’s clever way of getting his instructions into the QB without going on the field. Yeah, right.

P2- Hey You! Randy Weiss in the Lacrosse helmet. Now move over next to Koy Nash and Shimura in the insignificant character section of Milford pawns.

Maybe if he had spent his day off this summer practicing at the beach he’d already have this footwork stuff figured out.

In all reality , Heather better start relaxing Pelwickie nobody is blocking #81 and Hakeem is going to sacked. After an injury timeout and Pelwickie getting a happy ending massage from Heather, he throws a touchdown pass to the sticky fingered Barry Bader . A happy ending for all .

P-2: Look at all the seams on that ball! When did Valley Conference call for football to be played with mini-basketballs?

Or did Randy Weiss try to pull the old “hidden ball trick”, except he couldn’t hide a football under his jersey?

Wouldn’t Heather’s advice on throwing be more like “Make sure you get both hands behind your head, don’t twist it and aim for their feet?”

P-1: Hakeem demonstrates his mastery of English and shows he are smart. (Wait, he has the gap in his teeth, is he the son of the Amadi from the Wind and the Lion?)P-2: Randy demonstrates he has fingers of steel as he catches a forward pass from the side and back, zowie…P-3: Theme song- Running on Empty

To be brutally honest, no coach would allow a water boy/girl to coach players during breaks in the game, of course I knew a coach and Gil is no coach

Baseball went all summer. So far this one football game has gone about a week now. This is going to be a loooooong story line.

Seriously, even if Heather had played some goalkeeper, the throwing technique is completely different. I was a field player and #1 son was a goalkeeper, and if you hand either one of us a football we throw wobbly sideways balls that hit at your feet. There were a couple guys on my team who could throw okay, but nobody you’d want coaching a QB.

Could he be the only white guy in the country named Hakeem? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that).

@tcar: and that’s just to get to the theme. I’m standing by my prediction that it’s about a teenage trans-sportsual girl

@oldsmkysyvr: there’s nothing wrong with your name either’ unless Superman says it backwards. As for Hakeem, on go comics all the kids are mulattoes, they’re black and white.

Yep, at the end of a game when all the pressure is on, nothing makes you relax better than to have someone tell you to relax, so that you’ll really be self-aware as to your level of relaxation. Which probably will make you less relaxed. Which is why Gil is not out there saying the same thing, he knows what he’s doing. Too bad Heather ruined everything. And speaking of ruining everything, don’t ruin your Monday by forgetting to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

really people. I just started reading this strip a couple of months ago, but geeze, it is only a comic. Not even a TV soap opera

Nobody (other than in MUT) commented on what Randy Weiss did to that poor football in P2? Look how misshaped it is! Unless they started using a handball late in the game.

Who needs the WDIG play by play when the narration takes care of it for us?

Oh-oh, that pile drive sack takes out Hakeem’s right wing; no more beach throwin’ for #55 Pelwecki: it’s Milford time!

That Randy Weiss is a Manster grabbing a rebound in his Lacrosse uniform. The kid has mitts that would have made John Mackey and Milt Morin proud.

Meanwhile, in Baton Rouge, rumor has it Les Miles could have saved his job if he had recruited Tru(e).

I nominate Pat Murray as winner of Laff O’ The Day.