Cameron Wake was this close to nailing it. And by “this,” we mean…
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Grantland ran an excellent piece last week about Cameron Wake, the Miami Dolphins defensive end shown above engaging in America's national pastime (causing Mark Sanchez to fumble). There's a lot of good material in the piece about Wake's unusual path to the NFL (he worked for a while at a Bally gym after going undrafted) and why he's so good at rushing the passer, but let's focus on one particular anecdote: the time Wake gave the worst job audition of the century.
In 2007 Wake was trying to make the Canadian Football League. He showed up at Howard University's Greene Stadium for a tryout with the B.C. Lions.
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Howard University is in Washington, D.C. As in the nation's capital.
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