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8
Mar
2013
Richard Sherman destroys Skip Bayless on First Take (VIDEO)
You had to see this coming.
On Thursday, Seahawks “All-Pro Stanford Graduate” cornerback Richard Sherman went on an epic takedown mission of ESPN’s First Take’s resident loudmouth, Skip Bayless. And it was as glorious as it was awkward to watch.
(via gamedayr.com)
For years, Bayless has been goading players from the comfort of his First Take pulpit, and with the program becoming more and more about drawing guest athletes into name-calling contests for the sake of ratings, it was only a matter of time before a player decided he had heard enough. And Sherman, known for his on-the-field trash talk, appeared up for the challenge.
After Steven A. Smith opened the interview by asking Sherman how good he really thinks he is, Sherman seemed laser-focused on taking down Bayless, coming at him with a barrage of prepared remarks including “you’ve never accomplished anything”, and culminating with this rant:
“I’m the top of my field. I’m All-Pro. I’m one of the best 22 players in the NFL. You’re going to brush it off, but I don’t think you’re the best 22 anything. In sports. In media. In anything. I think you think more of yourself than you actually can prove. I’ll put it like this. In my 24 years of life, I’m better at life than you.”
Bayless initially attempted to take the criticism in stride and deflect the comparison to Darrelle Revis, but Sherman clearly wasn’t finished with Bayless yet, going on to call him an “ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin”, and saying “I’m going to crush you on here in front of everybody because I’m tired of hearing about it.”
It really is worth watching the full exchange below.
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30
Oct
2012
Watching this lifelong Colts fan get his dying wish will make you cry (VIDEO)
(AP Photo)
Meet Danny Webber: a diehard 74-year-old Colts fan suffering from terminal prostate cancer. One of Danny’s last wishes was to attend a Colts game and meet QB Andrew Luck, which he was fortunate enough to do back in week 3 of this season.
This week, Showtime’s Inside the NFL aired this piece on Webber’s experience, which shows just the type of meaning and impact this game can have in a person’s life. It also includes a touching meeting with Colts head coach Chuck Pagano, before he was diagnosed with leukemia, and a beautiful moment when Webber meets Luck, who he calls “the greatest football player the Colts will ever have.”
If you don’t get choked up watching this video, you should probably go get your heart checked out.
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18
Oct
2012
Watch Steve Smith pause to consider murdering E:60 reporter (Video)
(via espn.com)
Panthers WR Steve Smith has a reputation for having a bit of a temper.
His fierce competitive nature has made him one of the best receivers in the NFL, but it’s also led to a history of fights — including several with his own teammates, with Smith sending members of his own team to the hospital on three separate occasions.
So ESPN’s E:60 decided to do a profile on Smith’s upbringing, in an attempt to figure out where that seething rage comes from. And when reporter Chris Connelly brought up Smith’s most infamous incident – his 2008 fight with Ken Lucas – he was pretty much putting himself in harm’s way. When Connelly dares to push Smith to talk about Lucas, you can actually see the rage flip get switched inside Smith’s head.
For an interminable 9 seconds, it looks like Smith might just rip Connolly’s head off, playing the scenario through in his head before ultimately deciding better of it.
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15
Oct
2012
Watch the wildest 30 seconds of the weekend unfold in real time on the RedZone Channel (VIDEO)
On Sunday, viewers of the NFL Network’s heaven-sent RedZone Channel (which now includes Time Warner subscribers everywhere) were treated to perhaps the wildest 30 seconds of football you’ll ever see. Thanks to their ability to show multiple games at once, RedZone and uber-host Scott Hansen - employing their “triple box” technology at just the right moment – caught lightning in a bottle as three games were effectively decided at the same time.
During this magical sequence of events, we get to see RGIII run 76 yards for a TD (bottom) to seal the Redskins’ win over the Vikings, immediately followed by Russell Wilson’s 46-yard bomb to Sidney Rice (top-right) to boost Seattle over the Patriots. Then, before you can blink, Jay Feely misses a game-winning 38-yard field goal attempt off the goalpost (top-left), which sent the game into OT where the Cardinals lost to the Bills.
If you don’t get RedZone Channel … now you know. Get on it.
10
Oct
2012
Was Mark Gastineau drunk during Jets Ring of Honor speech? (AUDIO)
(Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images via nydailynews.com)
It seems that when former Jets greats (see Joe Namath) return to their home stadium for night games, the standard etiquette is to get hammered drunk before letting someone put a microphone in front of you.
On Sunday, former Jets sack master Mark Gastineau was inducted into the Jets’ Ring of Honor on Monday Night, and his halftime speech was … well, interesting, that’s for sure! In it, a slurring Gastineau – taking extra time to get his words out – calls out fans for booing before getting religious and ending with a labored “Let’s enjoy it and wiiiinn in the seeeccccoooonnnddd haaaaalllffff … Halleluuuuujaaah!”
Of course, Gastineau’s speech could also be affected by all the blows he took to the head during his NFL career … if that’s the case, we apologize in advance. And if he wasn’t drunk, Gastineau is yet another stirring walking advertisement for player safety.
Listen for yourself below, and let the internet memes commence!
[H/T Jimmy Traina]
22
Sep
2012
Hilarious outtakes from those fairy-themed NFL Sunday Ticket commercials (VIDEO)
By now, we’ve all seen the commercials for DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket. They’re everywhere.
(via daylife.com)
The spots feature Deion Sanders, joined this season by Peyton & Eli Manning, as tiny fairy versions of themselves, spreading the gospel of the Sunday Ticket. And while the concept itself is fairly ridiculous, the campaign has allowed its stars to show off their considerable comedic chops.
As these outtakes demonstrate, while making the commercials, the guys were given a lot of freedom to improvise on the set … and as usual, Peyton’s dry humor shines here.
Our favorite moments are when he gives Deion a hard time for his fashion choices on the cover of his 1994 CD (“Prime, I love the crew vest, nothing underneath it. It’s genius, it’s brilliant. It’s aggressive … but it’s genius.”), and Peyton making excuses for why Eli couldn’t be there (“bad oysters … trust me, you don’t want to hear about it”).
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27
Aug
2012
Jerry Jones raps in a Papa John’s commercial for some reason (VIDEO)
So this exists.
The ad wizards for the Papa John’s pizza franchise decided to enlist Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for their latest Dallas-area commercial. And not only that, but for some inexplicable reason, they decided to have Jones rap during the spot.
Let’s just say as a rapper, Jones is a very good businessman … watch for yourselves and drink it in:
Ummm … yeah.
Not surprisingly, Jones has an ownership stake in Papa John’s throughout Texas, and this isn’t his first ad for the franchise (check out this one where Jones gets punched in the junk by a little kid). But there’s just something unsettling about watching Jerrah – with all of his plasticized facial features – trying to imitate the moves of a hip-hop artist (:15), let alone trying to make his “rhymes” seem credible.
Thank goodness we don’t live in Texas where we’d be subjected to seeing this on a regular basis.
16
Aug
2012
FOX unveils Tony Siragusa Cam; gives viewers everywhere nightmares (PIC)
In what we can only hope is a one-time experiment, FOX introduced the “Goose Cam” during tonight’s Falcons-Bengals pre-season broadcast, giving viewers a wildly unnecessary view of Tony Siragua, their portly and distracting sideline analyst:
Worst. Idea. Ever. (Image via SBNation.com)
Early in the game, Siragusa gave us a tour of his on-field rig, where he spends most of the games wobbling from side to side, harassing players and screaming random thoughts over the play-by-play. Siragusa’s set-up behind the endzone includes a director’s array of monitors showing every camera angle, a telestrator (so he can draw smiley faces), an extra-creepy fisheye lens … and of course, a little shelf for Goose’s Peanut M&M’s.
For any NFL fan, it was already an unwelcome sight to find the broadcast team of Kenny, Moose and Goose - who is inexplicably given an open mic to share his unfiltered insights from field level - calling your game. But with the Goose Cam, FOX has taken things to a whole new level of in-your-face obnoxiousness.
[H/T SBNation]
10
Feb
2012
New York Giants Super Bowl XLVI Graphic Novel (PICS)
As a tribute to his beloved New York Giants, user Chris in Philly of BigBlueInteractive.com has taken to creating graphic novels representing each of the team’s recent playoff wins. A few weeks ago, we posted parts 1 & 2 of the novel which presented the Giants victories over the Packers and 49ers in the form of Eli Manning‘s comic book-stylized journal.
So ever since their impressive victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI, we’ve been patiently waiting for CiP’s next masterpiece … and he didn’t disappoint, delivering not one but TWO new pages representing both the championship game and the parade that greeted the Giants upon their return home (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
(Artwork: Chris in Philly via BigBlueInteractive)
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9
Feb
2012
Super Bowl XLVI is even more thrilling mic’d up (UPDATED w/VIDEO)
Manning makes the throw of his life (Photo: NFL.com)
As always, the NFL Films crew was in full force at Super Bowl XLVI, capturing all the sights and sounds of the world’s biggest game as only they can. For this game, the Sound FX team had WR Victor Cruz and LB Michael Boley mic’d up for the Giants, and QB Tom Brady and DT Vince Wilfork wired for the Pats. And the result is every bight as insightful and exciting as you’d expect it to be.
Here are the links to watch the entire Sound FX program on NFL.com: PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4
A few of the more interesting moments from the broadcast:
- Justin Tuck’s pre-game speech inspiring his teammates who have yet to win a Super Bowl to reach for their ring (which possibly inspired the team’s now-famous post-game “I got a ring” celebration)
- Patriots owner Robert Kraft asking to look into Tom Brady’s eyes before the game to see if he has “the look”, and Brady responding “I got it today. I’ve had it for three days”
- Victor Cruz pre-game: “Super Bowl 46 … I used to think it was all about me, and what I could do. It’s all about this team, man.”
- Wes Welker: “I’m open on every play.” Brady: “I know you are, man. I know you are.”
- Brady, following the intentional grounding call that resulted in a safety on the first offensive play of the game
“I looked at Gronk, I looked to Wes, he dropped, then I felt him, I had no place to throw it away. I threw it over his head. I didn’t want to throw an interception.”
- On Cruz’ fumble/non-fumble in the first quarter, when the Patriots were flagged for 12 men on the field, the Giants saw it all the way, urging Manning to snap the ball to catch New England for a free play
- After Jason Pierre-Paul knocks down a Brady pass, the QB says to Welker on the sideline: “It’s like throwing in a forest, dude, those f*ing guys arms are like…”
- When Giants Kevin Boothe was called for holding Vince Wilfork in the 2nd quarter, nullifying a big first down and ultimately killing the drive. Immediately, the referee asks the official who thew the flag “You’re good with it? I thought he spun off of it”, which Wilfork later confirms, saying “That was a bad call”.
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