Template:Infobox Teams Jet McCoy and Cord McCoy are a team of Brothers/Cowboys on the 16th season of The Amazing Race and the Unfinished Business season of The Amazing Race and the second all-star season of The Amazing Race.
Team
Jet
- Age: 30 (Season 16) 31 (Unfinished Business) 34 (All-Stars)
- Hometown: Ada, Oklahoma
- Connection to your teammate: Brother
- Current Occupation: Cowboy
- Pet peeve about your teammate: Punctuality or lack thereof
- Favorite hobbies: Reading
- Achievements: Making it on THE AMAZING RACE
- Lifelong to do list: To remain a cowboy
- If I could switch places with someone: Nobody, I am happy being me … I haven't worked out all of my own problems so I wouldn't want to start on anyone else's
- Role Model/Hero: Cord would be my hero
- What are you passionate about? Horsemanship
- What would you do if you won the million dollars? Pay off my house
- People would be surprised to learn: How much I read. I read every single day
- Favorite place you have ever visited: Texas
- Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on the Race together: Communication
- What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race (other than winning one million bucks?) To broaden my horizons and gain a better appreciation for the world in general
Cord
- Age: 29 (Season 16) 30 (Unfinished Business) 33 (All-Stars)
- Hometown: Tupleo, Oklahoma
- Connection to your teammate: Brother
- Current Occupation: Professional Bull Rider
- Pet peeve about your teammate: He likes to voice his opinion
- Favorite hobbies: Riding horses
- Achievements: Rode world champion bucking bull, “Big Bucks”
- Lifelong to do list: Get married, have lots of babies and live happily ever after
- If I could switch places with someone: I wouldn't trade with anyone.
- Role Model/Hero: My parents
- What are you passionate about: My beliefs
- What would you do if you won the million dollars: Buy a big ranch
- People would be surprised to learn: I don't have a television or a radio in my house
- Favorite place you have ever visited: I love visiting everywhere, but home sweet home is always the BEST
- Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on the Race together: Choosing one idea and going with it
- What did you hope to accomplish by running the Race (other than winning one million bucks): Spending time with my best friend and brother
Season 16
- Leg 1: 3rd
- Leg 2: 1st
- Leg 3: 1st
- Leg 4: 4th
- Leg 5: 3rd
- Leg 6: 4th
- Leg 7: 6th (Non-Elimination)
- Originally arrived 5th, but were informed that they didn't get the directions to the pit stop out of the bottle at the Roadblock.
- Leg 8: 1st
- Leg 9: 3rd
- Leg 10: 1st
- Leg 11: 2nd
- Leg 12: 2nd
Unfinished Business
- Leg 1: 11th
- Leg 2: 3rd
- Leg 3: 6th
- Leg 4: 2nd
- Leg 5: 1st
- Leg 6: 2nd
- Leg 7: 5th
- Leg 8: 5th
- Leg 9: 6th (1st U-Turned by Flight Time & Big Easy, Eliminated)
All-Stars (2014)
Arrived 1st And won the two Express Passes(gave the second one to (Caroline and Jennifer) Used their own in Leg 8 to bypass Detour.
- Leg 8: 2nd
- Used the Express Pass.
- Who's got the write stuff?: Jet
- Leg 10: 5th (1st U-Turned by Leo & Jamal, Eliminated)
- Who wants to be a Barber of Seville?: Jet
- Run With The Ballz
- 1st U-Turned by Leo & Jamal.
- Spanish Steps
Arrived last and were eliminated.
Memorable Moments
Season 16
- Jumping from last to first with a Speed Bump in the eighth leg.
- Settled for 2nd because they were cut in front of line by Dan and Jordan at the Shanghai Airport on final leg and they spend more time to complete the Augmented Reality task at the Letterman Digital Arts Center.
Unfinished Business
- Beating Gary & Mallory's Express Pass in leg 5 by two minutes.
- Eliminated when Jet guessed the wrong number at the Roadblock forcing him to go back and do-over, and their fate was sealed when they got U-Turned by Flight Time & Big Easy.
All-Stars (2014)
- Giving their second Express Pass to Caroline & Jennifer in Leg 2 by their immediate request.
- Eliminated after being U-Turned by Leo & Jamal.
Records
Franchise
- First team to perform a Speed Bump and come in 1st in the same leg.
- Most legs won in a career by a team of brothers, 7 legs
- First team to win a leg in 3 seasons.
- Second team to be eliminated by the U-Turn twice in their career, (following Amanda & Kris).
- Most leg traveled by a team in a career, 31 legs (tied with Flight Time & Big Easy).
- One of the three teams who participated in the race three times (joined by Flight Time & Big Easy and Margie & Luke).
American
- Highest average placing team of brothers, 2.58
Season 16
- Oldest team in the Final Three, 29.5
- Highest average placing team, 2.58
- Most legs won, 4 legs.
- Highest average placing team in the final three, 2.58
- Only team in the final three to not incur a time penalty during the race.
Unfinished Business
- Last team who made to the Final Three in their last season (Season 16) standing.
All-Stars (2014)
- Highest average placing team, 2.8
- Last team of siblings standing.
- Last team from seasons 16 and 18 standing.
Trivia
- Jet and Cord were the first team featured in the intro on all three of their seasons.
- Jet and Cord won a leg every time they visited China: Season 16 (leg 10), Season 18 (leg 5) and Season 24 (leg 1).
- Jet and Cord's famous line, "oh my gravy," was referenced during Leg 2 of Season 23 by Brandon & Adam.
External Links
- Jet & Cord's Twitter: @CordMcCoy
- Season 16 Biography
- Unfinished Business Biography
- 'Amazing Race' participant switches gears to rodeo
- Jet & Cord on the mat after Leg 2 February 21, 2010
- Celeb cowboy McCoy puts on no airs April 21, 2010
- Cord McCoy - Wikipedia Article
- Jet & Cord's Website: http://www.cordmccoy.com/
- Jet & Cord's Facebook: /cord.mccoy.3
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