Ben Heaps likes to be hit. More specifically he likes to be hit by Cincinnati Bengals’ linebacker A.J. Hawk. For the second year in a row Hawk tackled Heaps, a Rio Linda, California native, at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament.
Why would someone volunteer to be tackled by a professional football player? Last year it was a spur of the moment according to Heaps, but this he put a little more thought into it.
“This year, some extra thought went into the tackle, but not much. Heaps and his group — some 47 others from WimZr, a Sacramento-based social-media app designed for travelers — weren’t planning on doing anything when they arrived to the tournament earlier this week. But when camera crews from NBC started coming to the group’s perch around the seventh hole inquiring about whether Heaps wanted to be tackled again, he relented.”
All this even though Heaps was three months removed from bicep tendon surgery.
Hitting people on a golf course seems to be a recurring theme with AJ Hawk.
And he’s not done. At next year’s tournament Heaps has intentions of doing something big one last time with Hawk.
“The trilogy’s coming next year. It’s the final one,” he said. “We’ve got to do something big. Something that makes these last two look mediocre.”
Safe to say we all are awaiting the trilogy’s conclusion with bated breath.
