Chill pills: J.J. Watt using honorary doctorate to diagnose fellow Texans
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt received an honorary doctorate from the Baylor College of Medicine on Tuesday, and it seems he's already putting it to use.
"He wrote me up a prescription this morning," Texans head coach Bill O'Brien said, per Sarah Barshop of ESPN. "He told me to take three chill pills a day and call him in the morning. I thought I've been more chilled out, but I guess he doesn't think so."
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He didn't stop there, writing up a more serious prescription for fellow defensive end Christian Covington.
Hi my name is Christian and I am suffering from weirdness. I'd like to thank my personal physician Dr. Watt for diagnosing me quickly and getting to the bottom of this. There's a long journey ahead but he assured me it will be a painful and tedious process. 10/10 would recommend. pic.twitter.com/SG6R3SLrmN
- Christian Covington (@thetangibleC4) May 30, 2018
Covington was diagnosed with "weirdness" and prescribed a treatment of no Marvel movies for two weeks, three stiff drinks twice per week, and one hair-color change.
Covington dyed his hair silver earlier this year.
Watt further instructed the Canadian-born Covington that this particular prescription is not free in the United States.
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