The Monday Bangover: Who’s the worst interviewee in the NFL?
This YouTube clip of Yi Jianlian being drafted and then interviewed by Stu Scott (props to TrueHoop for the find) is ridiculous. First off, Fran Fraschilla calls Easy Yi “50 Cent.” Then you have the Yi interview itself. My God, now we know why Yao rolled with a translator for so damn long.
Nice save, Stu. At least he wears Sean Jean.
Anyway, this brings up an interesting question: Who is the worst interviewee in the NFL?
Here are a few of my candidates:
- Clinton Portis – He might want to stick with his alter-egos, because he sounds dumb as fuck in real life. Does he really think Dubya and Dick are out there on the White House lawn fightin’ Pitts? And snake fights? He made a complete jackass out of himself. Go ahead, watch it for yourself .
- Eli Manning – I haven’t seen a “mumbling, stuttering prick” like this since Michael Imperioli played Spider. Even though he looks like he has Down Syndrome, he’s not necessarily dumb. It’s just that he’s really nasally, plus he stutters a bit and has that Southern drawl. That is a bad, bad combo. Watch Cut That Meat run circles around him in this interview.
- LaVar Arrington – Nothing’s worse than a dumbass who actually believes he’s intelligent, not to mention cool. I remember having to turn off ESPN’s Dream Job several times because of Easy Rider. Just listen to this retard. That has to be the gayest MNF player intro ever.
- Jerramy Stevens – When you talk shit and can’t back it up at all, you make this list. As a matter of fact, the psyche out job he did on himself, paired with firing up the opposing Steelers, might have lost his team a Super Bowl. This is what he said:
The story of Jerome Bettis returning to his hometown (Detroit) is heartwarming, but it’s going be a sad day when he doesn’t walk away with that trophy.”
And then he dropped about 63 passes during the big game, catching only three passes for 25 yards. Pathetic.
- Philip Rivers - He seems like a good dad and all, but he annoys the shit out of me. It’s like Alec Baldwin said in Glengarry Glen Ross:
“Nice guy? I don’t give a shit. Good father? Fuck you — go home and play with your kids!!“
Sorry I had to go there, but there’s something about Rivers that just irks me. I don’t know if it’s his drawl or his choir boy ways, but I can’t handle him. It might also be due to the fact that I loathe the San Diego Chokers.
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I sent you an e-mail about the traffic this morning.
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:10 pmI appreciate it. A blog like this is a completely different entity than our NFL team-based blogs.
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