A More Amazing Specimen: David Buehler, or the Giant Stingray?
USC kicker David Buehler can make 100 game-winning field goals in his career, and he will still be known as the kicker who owned Rey Maualuga in the bench press at the combine. He can win the Super Bowl with a last-second boot and people will still remember him as the dude who got 225 pounds up 25 times – more than Michael Oher or Eugene Monroe – despite being a kicker. Unfortunately for Buehler, his reputation has now gotten around, which means that when he does land in the NFL, guys are going to be looking to light him up. He thinks he’s going to run down there and lay the lumber to some little pansy kick returner…but he’s the one who’s going to get knocked into next century, maybe even by one of the guys he humiliated at the combine.
As impressive as Buehler is (for a kicker) though, he is nowhere near as amazing a physical specimen as this sucker, the world’s largest stingray:
This 7 foot long, 771 pound behemoth was hauled out of the water of the Maeklong River in Thailand – by 13 men. After being hooked with a rod. What kind of line were they using on that thing, a cable off a suspension bridge? Even Ernest Hemingway never landed a mofo like that. In fact, the stingray now ranks as the largest freshwater animal ever caught with a rod, beating the 646 pound catfish that was hooked in 2005. Even your crazy lying liquored-up uncle never claimed to bag anything that gigantic (except your aunt).
lol
March 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm