Being an NFL replacement ref is easy, right? You just know a lot about football, learn what all the hand gestures mean and speak clearly into a microphone for what, ten seconds at a time?
Meet Don King, a guy who lucked into a scab position and should be BORN to talk, because his name is f**king “Don King”. Don had a little trouble spitting it out during the second quarter of Wednesday night’s Patriots-Giants preseason game, and if the embarrassment of having a stadium full of people boo you for being terrible isn’t enough, he’ll have the televised broadcast full of pro football players laughing at him to make it as bad as possible. Ugh, look at his poor mouth. It looks like an asshole.
Why was he so shaken up, you think? It could be because of this:
Listen to how he says “during”. I don’t want to talk bad about the guy for having a speech impediment, but did you SERIOUSLY put the one guy out there with a speech impediment in charge of talking to the crowd? They’re doing this on purpose, aren’t they? Next week that ref’s going to rip off his mask to reveal Sacha Baron Cohen, isn’t he?
I should’ve caught on when they told me his name was “Don King”. Yeah, right.
[via The Nosebleeds. Head line via Billy Madison.]
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Brandon,
I’m a huge fan of your wrestling columns and tweets, but this post and the headline especially is in terrible taste and tremendously mean spirited. For a very bright guy and good writer you are showing a lack of knowledge about speech impediments and a bigger lack of empathy as a seemingly decent person. So according to you someone with a speech impediment shouldn’t be allowed to be a referee? And for someone who calls out WWE so often for their hypocritical bullying, you should really take a look in the mirror. You have this forum and this audience and this how you chose to use it. That’s disappointing.
It’s a Billy Madison reference, as explained in the h/t.
+Buh-Buh-Buh-Buh-*SMACK*-BUBBA!
Brandon, you’re getting old. Billy Madison came out 17 years ago, and I don’t think Adam Sandler has new fans. So chances are JY is 22 and never got stoned enough to sit thru Sandler’s Citizen Kane.
*sigh* O’Doyle Rules (I guess)
He didn’t say he shouldn’t be a ref, he said he shouldn’t be the ref with the mic. Do you work for Romney or something?
Honestly, while the reffing has been terrible, I don’t think they are THAT far behind regular, very average NFL refs. Give them a few more games and some confidence and it won’t be so bad.
lmaoooooooo I have not picked myself up off the floor since I saw that headline and saw that pic. These replacement refs blow.
something, something, something, BOROPHYLL
Perhaps this gentleman excels at OTHER things, like writing words in cursive on the blackboard.
::Watches Don King scrawl “Rirruto” on the board::
WELP. He doesn’t need this job, anyway, because if being a replacement NFL referee is cool, consider me Miles Davis.