Video: you’ll run the fastest 40-yd dash of your life away from a gorilla

Okay, it’s admittedly pretty hard to tell exactly what’s going on here based on this short clip of local new coverage, but I’ll try to run it down best I can. There’s a bunch of hopeful NFL prospects, taking in part in what appears to be a camp designed to prepare them for the NFL scouting combine that begins on Thursday in Indianapolis (the one where they strip down to their underwear for physicals and intrusive interviews and agents sell themselves like call-girls in the flat Indiana night).

Someone (presumably the camp’s operator? Again, hard to say) decided to have a little fun with the guys and told the group of jocks that a gorilla had just escaped from a local zoo. Nobody seems too worried about it, until…the “gorilla” comes running out of the reeds, and all Hell breaks loose.

For an extremely enjoyable 10-15 seconds, every player there turns into a running back, regardless of position, and scampers away from the uh, beast, like a herd of gazelles fleeing from a lion. It would’ve only been funnier if there had been an ACTUAL gorilla on the loose, but that would probably take a little more work to get set-up. We’ll just have to settle for the humor in watching a bunch of 250-lb athletes be reduced to virtual schoolteachers jumping into their stools after catching sight of a field mouse. Oh, heavens!

Final prank score: A-. Next time let’s work in an alligator or two, maybe a T-Rex. Now THAT would be classic.

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Gorilla Scare Prank Catches NFL Prospects Off Guard [YouTube]