Michael Thomas Receives a Phone Call
Joe Horn: Are the Bills, Browns, and Raiders still total trash?
Michael Thomas: Yeah…
Horn: “Aww spacetime is just fine then”
The age of nostalgia reboots has hit the TD celebration scene. Two famous celebrations re-created just this week! Kevin Byard went and pulled a TO by posing on the Dallas Star logo at midfield. But before that happened, Michael Thomas pulled out a cell phone and for a brief moment in time, we all remembered the name Joe Horn.
All the announcers pooped on it because RESPEK DA GAME but sorry fellas, this owned. It owned hard. Give me more. “What if the Rams had come back and won it?” Well, then it might have owned even harder, because that would have made it both awesome and ironically hilarious. Like posing on a boat before a playoff game. Sometimes you gotta talk the talk and pull out some disrespectful taunts to make yourself a legend and face the consequences if it blows up in your face. Announcers and old fogies will wax poetic about IT’S ABOUT THE TEAM and NO SELFISH FOOTBALL but seriously…it’s a fun celebration after a score with a harmless prop. Sports is entertainment. I was entertained. It’s rich to hear Troy Aikman talk about how disrespectful it is when he saw his career boosted by the likes of Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders. Troy Aikman can go eat paste.
And let’s not forget that for all the TEAM talk, there is very much an incentive to find a way to stand out. That kind of stuff gets you endorsements and higher contracts (if you back it up with play of course). It gets you noticed. If Joe Horn never busts out a flip phone and creates an iconic moment in football celebration lore, does anyone remember Joe Horn? Saints fans obviously would. Die hard NFL’s probably would. The Dude got some pro bowls in his day. He certainly had a career he could be proud of, but at best he’d go down as one of those dudes you occasionally have a random memory of and go “he was pretty good”. But a decent career is one thing. A place in NFL lore (even one this small) is arguably better in some ways. Good to great players who have decent careers get forgotten about, but special moments stick around. Joe Horn will always be cell phone guy to me and to many other people, and that’s not a bad thing. Lore lives on more than number of pro bowls. Nobody is going to tell their children about Joe Horn going to some pro bowls. They will tell them about hiding a flip phone in the endzone. I think that shit rules.
I miss you, Joe Horn. Thank you, Michael Thomas, for helping me remember Joe Horn.
So do ya keep a phone in both end zones for that? I mean…
Apparently Joe Horn prepared that celebration many weeks beforehand but he just couldn’t get to do it because he only hid the phone in the north side of the field and he happened to keep scoring only on the south side or something.
Learning from his lesson, Michael Thomas apparently hid phones in both sides so he could pull it off at the earliest possible chance.
“Joe Horn: Are the Bills, Browns, and Raiders still total trash?
Michael Thomas: Yeah…
Horn: Aww spacetime is just fine then”
Horn’s famous celebration was in 2003, though…
Bills: Four seasons removed from the Music City Miracle, was consistent and competitive for a long time until then, then afterwards had mediocre seasons bar one stinker.
Browns: Literally went to the playoffs the previous season.(Wow! Sadly, their last to date)
Raiders: Literally went to the Super Bowl the previous season.
Sure, all three teams were doing pretty bad in 2003, but the question kinda implies being consistently terrible for a long time. Not to be nitpicky, but I’d think ‘total trash’ to the Joe Horn of that year would’ve rather been something like Cardinals, Chargers, Bengals and/or Lions than those three. But then, that might not have been as funny as a joke, so ehh.
(Or maybe the Browns still fit anyway, that 2002 season was pretty flukey as it was preceded by terrible seasons up to the ‘reactivation’ *shrugs*)
didnt Michael get flagged for doing this?
Yes, 15 yards. LA brought the following kickoff out to the 40, so it actually cost his team about 15 yards of field position.
Luckily for him it didn’t really impact the game.
If that been a drive for a winning field goal, and that 15 yards made the difference between being able to attempt it or not, or the difference between a made 40-yarder and a missed 55-yarder… would it have been worth it?
Meh. We have enough crappy reboots already. I’m kind of disappointed in end zone celebrations this year. Last year was so creative and fun. I’m not with the RESPEK DA GAME people. I was just rubbed the wrong way by the derivative nature of the celebration.
they’ll run thru the classics and start innovating again. the seahawks hit-by-a-pitch celebration was great, frex!
Considering that Thomas seems like a very grounded guy and I personally haven’t seen him do many things like this, I loved it! It was a great throwback. Thomas absolutely destroyed that LA defense all day pretty much. Had they lost, no doubt he would have caught some heat. But not from Joe Horn. That text they got from Favre though….
Honestly – it’s kinda impressive that he knew about this considering he was probably 4 yrs old when it happened.
I don’t think there are any 19-year-olds in the nfl
Lol you must not read his Twitter if you think he is a grounded guy.
I’m now hoping someone reboots mooning Lambeau
OMG I WONDERED THIS TOO BUT DIDNT THINK ANYONE ELSE WOULD FIND IT FUNNY. Thanks Dave!
Without that Flip phone, Joe Horn is essentially Eric Moulds. good at his time, noone remembers anything about him
Late breaking news but Dez signed with the Saints. Cannot wait to see what you have to draw about that.
saint dez, martyr fez, pope prez
Fez Bryant is probably the most excited. People in new orleans love hats.
dave
this was the “Amazing Spider-Man” of touchdown celebrations
I think you’re missing the point of the other side here, Dave. Thomas did what he knew was an illegal celebration when the game was still close and in the late 4th. Joe Horn did it in the 2nd quarter in a blowout win.
Lol. Rt before Joe Horn scored the score was 10-7. I guess since he can predict the future it was a safe bet tho.
Any time I see an end zone celebration, I just think… your team better win, or you look pretty silly. Time you spent practicing that nonsense was time you could have spent getting better at playing football.
But in hindsight, the Joe Horn thing was fairly iconic. Michael Thomas may have stolen some of Joe’s thunder because now when people talk about the cellphone incident, you might hear “Which one?” or the younger kids will just think Michael Thomas was the guy who did it.
Honestly had Michael Thomas never done it most young fans would have never heard of the first one.
It’s been a while since you showed the Saints some love!
Dave throws plenty of love to the Saints. He does keep it contained tho, trying to make up for drawing Sean Payton too many times early in the drawplay.
Amazing concept and really hilarious