Dude Perfect, Johnny Manziel inspired Lions’ Jimmy Landes’ trick-snap video

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ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The idea initially came from Jimmy Landes’ older brother, John. He’s the one who got him started snapping footballs. John Landes said he knew the guys from Dude Perfect from a shared Bible study at Texas A&M. He saw them trying trick shots before they became famous.

So John suggested to his brother that he try to trick long-snap. John mentioned it again after Johnny Manziel, who John said grew up near the Landeses in Tyler, Texas, did a Dude Perfect video at Texas A&M. Then, John forgot about it until Jimmy called one night.

“[He] said, ‘Hey, I’m about to text you this link. Just watch it,’” John said. “I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s never good. That’s never good with that phone call.’ So I clicked it and he had already done it.

“It was a total curveball.”

“It” was Jimmy’s own version of a Dude Perfect trick snap with a high level of skill involved. Jimmy snapped the ball from the top of McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas, into a garbage can filled with pylons.

From the top of the stadium @SportsCenter @BUFootball pic.twitter.com/shoZR7V5Lc

— Jimmy Landes (@jimmy_landes) August 17, 2015

Jimmy said he finally completed the trick around his 35th attempt, but that he actually made it once before they started filming and then had another bounce into the can and out around snap No. 15, necessitating the pylon additions to the trash bin to give added weight.

“I had to aim at the left foul pole, excuse me, field goal post,” said Jimmy, also a former baseball player at Baylor. “Yeah, foul pole, that’s baseball …

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