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NASHVILLE, Tenn.: Two assistant coaches apparently wrestling with each other fell through a hotel window Tuesday morning and fell four stories to a concrete sidewalk, leaving one in serious condition.

The American Football Coaches Association is holding its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel, and hotel security had been called around 4:10 a.m. with a noise complaint when officers found a broken window and Scott Coy and Darren DeMeio outside on the ground below.

“They wrestled each other too close to the window going through it and down to the ground floor,” Nashville police spokeswoman Kris Mumford said. “That’s four floors.”

Coy, 29, is 6-foot-2 and 300 pounds from Newcastle, Pa. He was in critical condition and having surgery Tuesday afternoon at Vanderbilt University. DeMeio, 24, is 6-4, 225 pounds and from Clinton, Ohio. Police said he was in fair condition but remained in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon.

Coy is co-offensive coordinator at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., and DeMeio is the running backs coach, according to the college’s Web site. A telephone message left with the sports information office was not immediately returned Tuesday afternoon.

Hotel spokeswoman Kim Keelor said the window the men fell through was double-paned with a strong wooden sash in the middle.

“It’s very sad. I definitely want to express our sympathy to their families. It’s just a very strange and unfortunate occurrence,” she said.

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Shannon Chamberlain Says:
January 14th, 2009 at 4:45PM

Does Hallmark make a card that says, "Sorry your husband/father/brother behaved like a jackass in public (optional text: and injured himself in the process)"?

Because I think this just might be a growth area, even during a recession. Look how many people appear on reality tv shows alone. Each one of their families will need some variant on that card.

Margaret Soltan Says:
January 14th, 2009 at 5:15PM

The Hallmark Darwin Award series.

The_Myth Says:
January 14th, 2009 at 6:48PM

Am I the only one wondering if this was sex-gone-awry?

I mean, 2 men, athletic [?], in their 20s, "wrestling" at 4:10 a.m.?

And no mention of alcohol!

Hmmm…

Margaret Soltan Says:
January 14th, 2009 at 7:07PM

I’d go with alcohol before sex as an explanation, but maybe we’ll find out…

Polish Peter Says:
January 14th, 2009 at 8:45PM

There’s a video report from a Nashville station at http://www.wsmv.com/news/18470615/detail.html with interesting details. That’s about a quarter-ton going out the window. As they say in Poland, uffffff….. Such goings-on at the Opryland!

Margaret Soltan Says:
January 14th, 2009 at 8:52PM

LOL!! Just watched the video — the reporter calls it “tragic”!!

Also LOL: “That’s about a quarter-ton going out the window.”

I think maybe this is a story I should follow more closely…

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Alan Jacobs Says:
January 15th, 2009 at 8:33AM

I don’t know — I think I’ll be more inclined to laugh if the guy who’s in critical condition doesn’t die or end up paralyzed.

Oscar W. Shadle Says:
January 15th, 2009 at 7:42PM

UD, Make certain these guys were not from Westmintter College in Fulton, Mo. Cheers. OWS

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