[youtube]s0WMd0Y6hIw[/youtube] Trick Shot Quarterback Johnny MacJohnny McEntee has gone viral on YouTube with a trick shot video showing the UConn Huskies backup quarterback pulling off a wide variety of superhumanly accurate throws, ranging from opening doors, striking another ball midair, and hitting all three sections of a goalpost—left, right, and center—in rapid succession.
Other tricks include smashing a flying plate and throwing to another player blindfolded. As McEntee says in the video, “The biggest thing with quarterbacks is if they can make all the throws. So I’m going to try to do it—blindfolded.”
The 20-year-old posted the video on YouTube on Tuesday, and it has gone on to get more than 3 million hits within three days.
According to an interview with CNBC, McEntee and friends filmed the whole video between 10 a.m. and midnight last Saturday, intending to share it with family and friends, like the UConn women’s basketball team had done, according to McEntee.
However, the video made it to Yahoo’s FrontPage on Wednesday and has since become hugely popular on the Internet.
McEntee told CNBC that people keep telling him they think the video’s fake. He said it took him about five tries to make the shot through the net into the garbage can at the 40-yard-line.
The hardest shot, McEntee said, was getting the far basket shot from the other side of the stadium, which took him around 25 attempts.
At high school, McEntee threw for 1,525 yards as a senior, had seven TD passes, and rushed for four touchdowns, according to the UConnHuskies webpage.
McEntee said his new coach Paul Pasqualoni enjoyed the video, according to CNBC. However, the third-string QB hasn’t played for the Huskies the last two seasons, since a win over Rhode Island in 2009.
Other tricks include smashing a flying plate and throwing to another player blindfolded. As McEntee says in the video, “The biggest thing with quarterbacks is if they can make all the throws. So I’m going to try to do it—blindfolded.”
The 20-year-old posted the video on YouTube on Tuesday, and it has gone on to get more than 3 million hits within three days.
According to an interview with CNBC, McEntee and friends filmed the whole video between 10 a.m. and midnight last Saturday, intending to share it with family and friends, like the UConn women’s basketball team had done, according to McEntee.
However, the video made it to Yahoo’s FrontPage on Wednesday and has since become hugely popular on the Internet.
McEntee told CNBC that people keep telling him they think the video’s fake. He said it took him about five tries to make the shot through the net into the garbage can at the 40-yard-line.
The hardest shot, McEntee said, was getting the far basket shot from the other side of the stadium, which took him around 25 attempts.
At high school, McEntee threw for 1,525 yards as a senior, had seven TD passes, and rushed for four touchdowns, according to the UConnHuskies webpage.
McEntee said his new coach Paul Pasqualoni enjoyed the video, according to CNBC. However, the third-string QB hasn’t played for the Huskies the last two seasons, since a win over Rhode Island in 2009.
