Did you know Antonio Gates played Basketball
Did you know that Antonio Gates played basketball? Well Antonio Gates played basketball. Just so you know, he did. he played basketball. He was really good at basketball. Some people saw him playing basketball and went “Huh he would make a good tight end!”. That happened. He was a basketball player. He played basketball, you know the sport with the big orange ball with the thin black lines on it that requires you to throw it through a net 10 feet off the ground. That was the sport he played, and he was good enough at it that some people decided he should play football, and it turns out he was good at that too.
Every time he makes a catch it’s like going up for a rebound, see? And he’s really good at drawing fouls because people have to grab him to slow him down and prevent him from scoring. And he kicks field goals because they are worth 3 points. Basketball. His skills at basketball have totally translated across sports to a great career! We don’t know literally anything else worthwhile about Antonio Gates so lets just talk about his Basketball history again.
Seriously, announcers, we know he played basketball. You can shut up about it now. Oh and about Jimmy Graham too. And Julius Thomas. In fact, every tight end these days seemed to play basketball, so stop mentioning it. You hacks.
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Did you know Jason Pierre-Paul played basketball in college?
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That aside, Collinsworthless really does need to shut up. One small mercy of the Giants not being in the playoffs these past few years is that I don’t have to hear his voice over Giants games. Though that also means my ability to impersonate him Frank Caliendo-style is beginning to atrophy.
For real, does anyone at all on this Earth actually enjoy Collinsworth, or think he ever has anything worthwhile to say?
literally zero people
I think it’s less than that.
Did you know Russell Wilson played baseball in the minor leagues?
But did you know that Kaepernick played baseball and had a 95mph fastball?
Of all the painful cliches that need to go for announcers, former sports is the worst. Yeah, we get it. Gates and Graham played basketball. Drew Brees is really good at tennis. Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick were both drafted by baseball teams. Nobody cares after the first three times.
One of the reasons I like Dan Fouts as an announcer. He can be a San Diego homer and he can have those awkward moments where one of his jokes doesn’t connect, but he uses far fewer cliches.
I’m expecting Thursday’s comic to be about Sexy Rexy turning the Browns down. Don’t disappoint me, Rappoccio.
Al knew what was coming – went for the Jack early.
gosh look at that form as he throws his monitor through a window, it looks like dave did the shot put in college or something
Or maybe he played basketball. Like that Antonio Gates fella. Look at him hopelessly heave that television like a desperate, last ditch, full court 3 pointer! Collinsworthless would call that with pride!
The alt text is a lot more talented than we give it credit for. I’d like to see it make a comeback. It would make for a great story. Merry Christmas Dave.
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Hey, did you know that Jerome Bettis is from Detroit? I never knew that. Maybe they should have made mention of it or something when he played in the Super Bowl there with the Steelers.
Did you know Tony Gonzalez and Jimmy Graham played basketball too? I bet you also didn’t know that Nick O’Leary is Jack Nicklaus’ grandson, did you?
Did you know that Russell Wilson was drafted a total of three times by teams in MLB?
Did you know Phillip Rivers is about as passionate and as animated a guy as you’ll see at quarterback? He just loves football.
Maybe he’s overcompensating for Cutler.
Dave, you need to stop destroying your personal belongings.
Merry Christmas, Dave. May 2015 bring you continued success, and the Browns a real franchise qb :'(
So I am super late to this party, but DID YOU GUYS KNOW THAT TOM ZIBIKOWSKI USED TO BE A GOLD GLOVES BOXER?!
Did you know Tom Brady was a 6th round pick or that Arian Foster was u drafted or piere garçon started at a private military D3 college ……I think the under drafted or never drafted get abused as well
RYAN FITZPATRICK WENT TO HARVARD
Gotta love poor Al Michaels swigging down the booze. The man made the greatest call in sports history (Miracle On Ice, 1980) and he somehow graciously puts up with that dopey hack chris colinsworth, saying the phrase “ground and pound” at least 30 times a game, week after week. He deserves a better color commentator. I can only hope that NBC keeps his liquor cabinet fully stocked for Sunday’s. There’s no other way he could possibly make it thru even one Sunday night game with ol’ yammerin’ Chris. God Bless Al Michaels.
Actually, being from Germany I follow the league more distantly and mostly the results with only the odd stream thrown in for good measure. So I actually had to look up Antonio Gates in Wikipedia. They say, he played Basketball for Kent State, I found that quite interesting.