{"id":897879,"date":"2026-05-22T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/897879\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:00:21","slug":"former-tennessee-vols-backup-qb-jim-bob-cooter-spills-the-beans-on-how-he-really-feels-about-his-famous-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/897879\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee Vols backup QB Jim Bob Cooter spills the beans on how he really feels about his famous name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Jim Bob Cooter is now two decades into his coaching career. Cooter is entering his fourth season as the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>\u2019 offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n

Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter has one of the most recognizable names in all of football.<\/p>\n

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Cooter, a former Tennessee Vols quarterback who served as a backup during his time in Knoxville, is most well-known for his unique name, but he\u2019s had a terrific coaching career<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

The former Vol, who has coached in the NFL since 2009, is entering his fourth season as the Colts\u2019 offensive coordinator. He also previously served as the Detroit Lions<\/a>\u2019 offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n

Jim Bob Cooter reveals how he feels about his famous name<\/p>\n

Part of me has always wondered how Cooter, whose real name is James Robert Cooter, feels about his name, mainly because I think it’s treated as a bit of a novelty.<\/p>\n

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Cooter, though, says he\u2019s embraced the name.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never got a great nickname [growing up], just because I guess Jim Bob was it,\u201d said Cooter on NFL Spotlight With Ari Meirov<\/a>. \u201cBut you play enough sports, you start going from town to town (and you get nicknames). I can remember, maybe some basketball games in junior high where the other fans started chanting maybe something not so nice. My name, it\u2019s pretty catchy in chants, too. I think around that time when you\u2019re growing up and you\u2019re playing sports and you start to realize maybe it\u2019s a little bit of a unique name. But I grew up in the South, I grew up in Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve just embraced it,\u201d continued Cooter. \u201cYou\u2019re a young kid playing sports and going to school and doing all of that stuff, and at a certain point you have aspirations to go play in college or whatever. Or maybe doing a little bit of recruiting stuff here and there, and that\u2019s not bad if people remember your name. So I\u2019ve always just embraced it. It is who I am. It\u2019s what my family calls me. It\u2019s what everybody\u2019s called me.\u201d<\/p>\n

So there you have it. Jim Bob Cooter is not running away from being Jim Bob Cooter. It\u2019s something he fully embraces, even if it is a unique name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Jim Bob Cooter is now two decades into his coaching career. Cooter is entering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,113,7,2004,392,2381,88707,12786,6,12611,1541,120698],"class_list":["post-897879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-colts","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-jim-bob","tag-jim-bob-cooter","tag-nfl","tag-offensive-coordinator","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-unique-name"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116616470772880995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}