23
Jun
2010
VIDEO: the NY Giants are not good at MTV’s Silent Library
I haven’t watched MTV in years … ya know, pretty much since they stopped playing MUSIC and opted to only show cheap/crappy reality programming. But apparently, one of their newer shows is a game show of sorts called “Silent Library”, and an upcoming episode features six members of the New York Football Giants. And in late June, that’s close enough to football news for us!
Here’s the basic premise of the show [via HotClicks]:
“A team of six contestants attempts a series of offbeat challenges to win money. The show is set in a library, so the players must remain quiet. The contestants draw cards, and the player who gets the one with skull and crossbones must complete a bizarre task or endure an unusual punishment. If they do so without laughing, the show’s host, Zero Kazama, awards them money. But if the team cracks up or is otherwise too loud, they lose.”
Pretty simple, right? But it’s oddly hilarious, even if it does end up sounding like 30 minutes of Muttley from the Hanna Barbara cartoons. And as these clips demonstrate, this group of Giants players – Kevin Boss, Chris Snee, Shaun O’Hara, David Diehl, Rich Seubert & Dave Tollefson – are not very good at this game.
In the above clip C Shaun O’Hara has to pedal a bike that shoots tennis balls at his face. Clearly, his teammates take great pleasure in watching this, end up laughing WAY to loudly, and thus losing. And when TE Boss gets the treatment from a toothless old man, you can probably guess that it ends in a similar fashion:
22
May
2009
Giants OT David Diehl Makes With The Funny
Giants Left Tackle David Diehl is apparently looking to follow in the footsteps of Michael Strahan, and decided to try his hand at comedy with a group called “12 Angry Mascots” at Comix earlier this week in Manhattan.
In this clip – which was one of two sketches he appeared in – Diehl plays the role of Brett Favre in an hilarious send-up on the sports news of the day (prepare yourselves to be dazzled by this electrifying voice over by a fired-up internet reporter moonlighting from his regular NPR gig):
[From NJ.com]
I love Diehl as a player – 5th round draft pick out of Illinois in 2003 who started all 16 games as a rookie, has played almost every position on the line for the Giants, and stepped up to the task of protecting Eli Manning’s blind side. The guy is a warrior.
As a comedian … meh. Not so much. But apparently, Diehl was a last-minute fill-in for Knicks guard Nate Robinson (um, he was supposed to play Favre???), and he admits it was the first time he’s ever done that sort of thing. So I guess he did alright considering. The crowd seemed to enjoy it at least, and I’ve seen WAY stiffer athletes attempt comedy.
In fact, here’s this clip of Brett Favre in “There’s Something About Mary” that makes Diehl look like Will Ferrell. Great movie, but Favre is as wooden as they come. Even multiple takes and editing couldn’t help him:
After the jump, we have even more video of NFL players-turned-entertainers … including a CLASSIC Rosie Grier clip from “Free To Be You And Me”.
