The Kentucky football team had no trouble fighting opponents last year (just ask Louisville). This fall they plan on taking it to a new level by bringing a pair of boxing gloves to the sidelines.
Jordan Griffin revealed the chained boxing gloves on Twitter during spring practice. It immediately drew comparisons to Miami’s turnover chain, but this prop shares a much different meaning.
“It originally started with Coach House,” Boogie Watson explained at UK Media Day. “It’s called ‘punching out of the gray room,’ so if in practice you had a bad play or was messing up, then later on you start making plays and start dominating practice, that’s punching out of the gray room.