During his introductory press conference and recent interviews, one thing that stood out was Mayo’s looseness and willingness to crack jokes to keep it light…Mayo (sorry for the pun).
While introducing Mayo as the Patriot’s next head coach, Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft needed some help with one of Mayo’s family members’ names, to which the Pats head coach jokingly went, “It’s one of those black names. I’ll help you with that.”
According to his teammates, that’s Mayo, genuinely himself even in the biggest professional moment of his life: “Mayo is a clown. He’s hilarious,” Spikes said. “You just gravitate towards people like that, and he was one of those guys. Even when work got long, the season got long, you could lean on him. He was always there with the same positive attitude.”
“He would just be clowning in the meetings. It would be really quiet. Meetings have been going all day, and he’d just go take a bathroom break or leave the room, and he’d just say real loud: I’m out of here, and everybody would just burst out laughing every single time. I think it was from some movie that he got it from, but it was just hilarious,” said Spikes.
McCourty recalled a story during a warm-weather road game where players gathered in the trainer’s room to receive extra fluids to stay hydrated.
“It might have been Miami or somewhere we were doing all our IVs. As the IVs go in, you don’t want your bag to run out because then air starts going in, and it can make your chest feel tight. Mayo knows most of the guys don’t know about that,” McCourty began. “So one guy’s bag stays open for maybe five seconds. And he’s like, oh, my chest feels a little tight. This is game day. Mayo’s like, oh, my goodness, doc, doc, his chest feels tight. He has air in there! His heart is going to stop! He’s going nuts. Everybody’s looking at him, and he just starts dying laughing. He goes, I’m kidding, guys. I’m kidding.”
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