Mike Gundy’s Justification of Mason Rudolph’s Horrific First Pitch Is Hilarious

OK, so Mason Rudolph’s first pitch wasn’t quite as bad as some others we’ve seen.

But it wasn’t exactly great.

You’ve likely seen it by now. If you haven’t, here it is. Rudolph hit the backstop with the first toss. It was, uh, not what you’d like to see out of your quarterback.

#OKState quarterback Mason Rudolph’s first pitch … did not go well.

“Good thing he plays football”-some kid pic.twitter.com/BdkrYbhVkK

— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) April 12, 2016

Mike Gundy told the O’Colly on Wednesday he still hasn’t seen it. His explanation, as most of Gundy’s are, was spectacular.

“I still have not seen it,” Gundy told the O’Colly. “I was working out with my boys in the batting cage in my barn, and my little one said he wanted to go to the game. I thought, ‘That’s odd,’ because we had been to three games in the last week or so, and he said, ‘Well, Mason’s throwing the first pitch.’ He wanted to be there for that.

“So I stayed in and worked out the other one, and his mom took him to the game, so he could be there for the first pitch. He called me and wanted me to come to the game, so then I end up coming to the game in about the second inning, and I asked him how the first was, and he said, ‘Terrible. You should’ve seen it.’ I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘He hit the backstop.’ And I said, ‘Well, maybe he was trying to hit the backstop.’ And he said, ‘Well, I didn’t think it was a very good pitch.'”

Maybe he was trying to hit the backstop. The most Gundy explanation of all time.