Nutty Buddy - Athletic Cup and Funny Video

The Nutty Buddy is a new athletic cup designed to protect and be comfortable. Many guys avoid wearing cups because they are uncomfortable. They take the risk that they could be made much more uncomfortable with an injury.

The video is pretty funny. He actually takes a shot to the groin from a pitching machine. That pretty much sells itself.






The video on YouTube is almost comical — except it’s not.

Former Royals pitcher Mark Littell, pitching a new product he has designed called the “Nutty Buddy,” stands in front of one of those pitching machines aimed at his groin, and takes one for the team. (http://tinyurl.com/21warc)

There is a resounding “whomp,” and Littell jumps up — not in agony — and flexes his muscles, unfazed.

“Yes sir, folks,” he says to the camera. “The Nutty Buddy: It’s mean, it’s tough, and it’s right there for ya every time."
Littell, who pitched for the Royals in 1973 and ’75-77, has designed a new athletic cup that he says is ahead of the competition.

“All people have to do is try it,” Littell says of the anatomically correct cup, which Littell says is more comfortable than the protective cup designed by other companies.

He came up with the idea while working with Royals pitchers in spring training.

“I asked my pitchers, how many of you guys don’t wear cups? And half of them raised their hand,” he said. “So I went off on a little mild tirade at the time.”

Littell says he always wore a cup while on the mound. He got smashed in the groin only once by a hit, but he still remembers it.

At $19.95, the Nutty Buddy is on the high end in price, about twice as much as a typical athletic cup. But Littell is betting that parents will buy them for their sons in hopes the better fit will get them to wear the cups.

In case their kids need encouraging, Littell’s cups come with macho names: “Hammer,” “Boss,” “Hog” and for really big men, the XL-sized “Mongo,” a salute to a the ogrelike character in the movie “Blazing Saddles.”

Source: kansascity.com


So watch the video and have a laugh, then consider actually getting a Nutty Buddy for the athelete that you know.