The NFL Combine is creepy
I started watching some of the Combine coverage this past week and after I heard Mike Mayock say, on camera, “Look at that bubble butt”. It suddenly hit me just how creepy the combine is. You are essentially just watching a workout. It’s not a competition, even if you want to see who the fastest player is. You are sitting there watching guys individually do a short exercise, almost all of them doing the exact same thing with minor variation on speed and such. Meanwhile a bunch of people stand around watching the players, silently judging them. It’s like a fashion show where their skills are the clothes they model. I mean, sports events basically are theatre, where athletes put themselves out there to put on a show, but if the Sunday Game is the play, the Combine is the audition, and auditions are always kind of awkward and weird for everyone involved.
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I never really got the combine except for Front Seven Sunday when you get to watch the linebackers and defensive linemen go at it. There’s something special about watching a 300+ lbs. man run a sub-5 40. Things like Byron Jones setting records are pretty cool too. Otherwise though, I just watch it so I have an idea of who has what abilities beyond the tape, and what each team might do.
It is pretty weird though, and one of the few socially accepted venues in which grown men can watch buff dudes in underwear while making observations about their physique.
I don’t understand the jumping crab in the first panel, what’s the reference?
That’s Jameis Winston in the back. He shoplifted crab legs from a Publix back in April of 2014.
Oh I see, thanks.
The creepiness of the combine is nothing compared to the NFL casting couch.
“Mr. Gronk will spike you now.”
“I like to Cuddle.”
/inexplicableboner
“I started watching some of the Combine coverage this past week and after I heard Mike Mayock say, on camera, “Look at that bubble butt”. It suddenly hit me just how creepy the combine is. You are essentially just watching a workout.”
This is why I stopped watching it, it bores me. Maybe I’ll pay more attention to the NCAA this year…
I’ve always thought it was kinda creepy to talk about players as “studs.”
Sexy Rexy once tried to enter the “combine” again. Even though it would’ve knocked the competition out, the judges said “No professionals”
Weren’t they going to hold a combine for UFA’s this year?
speaking of Sexy Rexy I can’t find him
I’ve looked back at this comic a couple of times today and every time I look at that first panel I hear “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred as the music blaring while the players strut their stuff.
I knew a comic like this one was going to be up once I heard Mayock’s butt comment. Well done Dave, may your offseason be bearable.
So three things
– you literally hit it on the head with your description
-You should do a comic about all these vets losing jobs so overpaid superstars can stay
-Lastly how about the “new” Browns logo no love for that can’t wait to see these new jerseys released in mid April