Don't Give Up The Day Job Brad! Pitt Was A Basketball Reject
April 10 2012, Published 9:30 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
He may have been snubbed for an Oscar this year – but it wasn’t the first time Brad Pitt has experienced rejection in his life!
Breaking Celebrity News has obtained an adorable previously unseen snap of the Hollywood hunk, which shows him with his childhood basketball team the Cherokee Rejects.
A determined young Brad, resplendent with a blonde bowl cut, set up the underdog team after he failed to make it into the first squad at Cherokee Middle School, in Springfield, Missouri, back in 1977.
Brad, then aged 14, came up with the tongue-in-cheek name and even hired his dad Bill to coach them.
Recalling being on Brad’s team, his former school friend Aaron Stull said: “We were the Cherokee Rejects. We didn’t make the final cut for the eighth grade basketball team, so the five of us just decided to be the Cherokee Rejects.
“It was Brad’s idea and he got his dad Bill to be our coach at the time.