Hertfordshire, U.K. — Matthew Stafford and Jim Bob Cooter both stood on the field at Georgia’s Sanford Stadium in 2006.
Stafford, a freshman backup quarterback for the Bulldogs, and Cooter, a senior backup quarterback for visiting Tennessee, didn’t meet that day, and last year, the two former SEC signal callers finally met.
And when they met last year when the Lions hired Cooter as quarterbacks coach, Stafford said he — like many people — found the name funny.
“I thought it was awesome,” Stafford said. “It’s quality stuff. You can’t make it up. It was good.