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October 16, 2006

Are You Talkin' To Me?

True tales from the similarly named

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JOSH SCOBEE
Jaguars K
Age: 24
6'1", 190 pounds

JOSH SCOBEY
Seahawks RB
Age: 26
6', 220

WHEN THEIR college teams played in 2001, says Scobey, "it was weird. I'd run and they'd show his photo; he'd kick off and they'd show mine." That preceded a bigger mix-up. "My brother [Matt] was dating a girl but hadn't met her family," says the Jags' Scobee. "One day her dad called and said, 'We know why you haven't brought Matt home. We were watching the NFL and saw that his brother's black. We don't mind you dating a black guy, honey.'" Scobee told Scobey the story and "We laughed," Scobee says. "We say we're brothers from a different mother."

JAY FEELY
Giants K
Age: 30
5'10", 210

A.J. FEELEY
Eagles QB
Age: 29
6'3", 225

THE NFL EAST rivals refer to each other as "pseudo cousin," and first met in 2003. Feely, who's married with three kids, once got a scare when he was confused with Feeley, who famously dates U.S. soccer star Heather Mitts. "A friend of Heather's from college who had never met me was at a charity soccer event in Tampa, and Jay was there," explains Feeley. "She went up to him, smacked him on the back and said, 'How's my girl doing?' Jay was like, 'What? Who? Huh?' They stood there like that for a minute or two. It finally dawned on her that he wasn't me."

CHRIS HOKE
Steelers DT
Age: 30
6'2", 305

CHRIS HOPE
Titans S
Age: 26
5'11", 206

BEFORE HOPE moved to Tennessee as a free agent this off-season, the two played together with the Steelers. "Phone messages were a problem. Notes in the front office were a problem," says Hope. "Sometimes he'd go to an autograph signing where people were expecting me, and vice versa." Even Hoke's family had difficulty telling the two apart. "My wife's grandmother was watching a game, and Chris got a personal foul, hit a guy late or something," Hoke says, laughing. "She called my wife and said, 'Wow, I didn't know your husband was that mean!'"

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