Jerry McDowell

Jerry "Fairy Jerry" McDowell is the main antagonist of the sports comedy film The Benchwarmers.

He is portrayed by former Late-Night host Craig Kilborn

He the head abusive little league baseball coach Jerry's recycled Batteries. He Gus Richie & Clark's rival and a former childhood bully. He also is a rival to Mel Charmical and his son Nelson. When he hears that the 3 had beaten his little league team earlierthatt day, he confronted the two and insulted them calling them names "Clark the Dork and Richie Bitchy" to which Gus responded with "Fairy Jerry" to which Jerry responds with "Gus Bus". The three leave with one of Jerry's players repeating in confusion "Gus Bus?" Annoyed, Jerry tells Troy to shut up.

When Jerry hears thatGus Clark & Richie enter a tournament in which balers despite bieng 3 adult males against 9 players, he is determined to stop them from winning the prized stadium at all costs. He joins his fellow jocks Brad, Karl, & Wayne to enter the tournament as well.

On the semi-final game he bribed the umpire by entering his Dominican friend carlos into the league claiming him to be 12 yerss old (despite the fake birth certificate being written in green crayon), but the Benchwarmers manage to defeat Carlos by making him too drunk to actually pitch properly.

After finding evidence that Gus was a bully himself and had tortured one midget boy named marcus so much, he had to be institutionalized. Taking advantage, Jerry exposed this info to break up the team. However, Gus sincerlyy apologized to Marcus who during the final game, made an incredible speech that he forgave him. Jerry was the only perosn not moved by the speech.

Gus Clark and Richie then annoncedd that they won't be playing in the final but instead a bunch of nerds will. Jerry's team sooned turned on him having had enough of his abuse and purposely let the other team score. Then they gave enraged Fairy Jerry a wedgie on a gate. It is unknown what happened to Jerry afterwards, but one thing's for certain: he's most likely been fired from coaching and his little league has gone out of business.