Oregon OC Scott Frost Tells Story About Marcus Mariota and 'Fat Women'

Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost received a nomination for the 2014 Frank Broyles Award—an honor given out to the top assistant coach in college football every year.

While he lost out to Ohio State offensive coordinator Tom Herman, Frost stole the show at the award ceremony Tuesday with a seemingly off-the-cuff story about Oregon's Heisman Trophy-nominated quarterback Marcus Mariota.

Frost told his audience a (probably fabricated) tale about Mariota deftly handling a large and angry female customer while working at a grocery store his freshman year. LostLettermen.com spotted video of the speech. I'll let Frost take it from here (Mariota story starts at the 4:16 mark):

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People don't know this, but [Mariota's] freshman year he worked at a grocery store in town to pay the extra bills. He was at the register one day and this great big woman comes in. And she said, 'I'd like to buy a half a head of lettuce.' He kinda looked at her funny and said, 'We don't sell half heads…only whole heads.' And she got all mad. So he walked back to ask the manager what he should do.

He said, 'Hey, I've got this great big fat woman out here who wants to buy a half a head of lettuce. What should I do?'

[Mariota] didn't know it, but the woman had followed him back there. He looks over his shoulder and he sees her standing there. And he said, 'And this lady wants to buy the other half.'

So, that's how quick-witted he is...and the manager told him afterwards…the manager said, 'That's impressive. I can't believe you can think that quickly on your feet. And [Mariota] goes, 'That's nothing. I'm used to dealing with stuff like that. I'm from Honolulu. If there's two things we have in Honolulu, it's great football and fat women.' And the manager said, 'My wife's from Honolulu.' And [Mariota] said, 'What position did she play?'

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Frost ended his story with "That's not true." Whether he meant that about the wife part of the story or the entire yarn is unclear. In all likelihood, the "anecdote" was a shopworn bar joke with Mariota inserted as the witty protagonist.

Regardless of its veracity, Frost delivered the lines in convincing fashion. This probably isn't the best way of explaining Mariota's ability to think quickly, but it got the point across.

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