The Leroy Awards

Omar Gooding’s brother, Cuba Gooding Junior, was the recipient of our second ever Leroy Award. You might remember that brother Cuba won an Oscar for his performance as a football player in the ultra-sappy Jerry McGuire. Younger brother Omar Gooding got sloppy-football-seconds as the star of ESPN’s Playmakers series (as NFL superstar turned crack-fiend Demetrius Harris).

Omar didn’t just use luck to land in this athletic role - he spent his entire career preparing for it:

- He hosted Nickelodeon’s Wild & Crazy Kids from 1990-1992 and performed in the most challenging locations:

- He spent 5 seasons (1992-1997) on Hanging with Mr. Cooper as former-NBA “star” Mark Curry’s understudy

But Mamma Gooding should be proud for more than just birthing a family of actors specializing in horrible sports roles - Omar also guest-starred on a single episode of CSI in 2006 and was arrested in 1995 for gun possession. According to his Wikipedia page, Omar can regularly be found playing Texas Hold ‘em at his favorite Vegas hotspot - the Aladdin.

Who would have that this cute kid would turn out to be a gun toting, poker playing, crack-fiend who bares his buttocks for the “Piss Man” on prime-time TV?