The Washington Redskins are currently 1-0 after a huge 40-32 Week 1 victory over the New Orleans Saints, and naturally the buzz of that win revolved around how great rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III played. RG3, as he’s known in science fiction films to fans, threw for 320 yards and 2 TDs in his first regular season NFL game, so naturally Skins fans are excited about his future. It also helps that he gets to play the St. Louis Rams this week, and everyone assumes that’ll be a much easier game for him (even though the Rams made Matt Stafford look like he played for the Rams).
Again, the guy has played one regular season game, and while I know that Skins fans are relieved that they finally have a potentially good QB and not a Grossman or Campbell, we shouldn’t anoint him the Chosen One just yet. But that would be a rational point of view, and sports fans are never rational. That’s how a meme like Griffining is born.
Coined by The Burgundy Blog, Griffining is the new planking/owling/Batmaning/Tebowing, and I have a feeling that even if the Redskins go 1-15 this season and Griffin throws no more TDs and 50 interceptions, the fans will keep doing it, because sports fans are insane. While there’s already a movement to stop this fad growing on Twitter, it won’t matter. The resistance to Griffining is futile.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-Griffin. I'm anti-meme. Just once, I'd love to see a guy get his big shot and make good, so the fans rightfully praise him for his efforts. But as soon as a guy snaps a picture and tries to coin a phrase, someone stops him and says, "Hey, hold on. Yes, he looked great in one game. ONE GAME. Let's not act like a bunch of psychos and put this gigantic burden of ending decades of depression and asinine ownership on him after one game. Let's let him grow into the pro game and develop his confidence and leadership mentality, so that way when he loses, he doesn't beat himself up over it." That would be nice.
Instead, we should just accept it and move on, and hopefully it will soon be replaced by Tannehilling, which is the act of throwing a ball directly at a defender so it pops straight up in the air before it’s intercepted. Trust me, it’s going to spread like wildfire.
Haha, ESPN, you're so hip and with it! See everyone? ESPN gets memes! They're not forcing anything or trying too hard at all.
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I like that the internet has basically brought certain people around to ye olden times, where the only entertainment available was “sit in an interesting positon”
Mayhap Erasmus will delight us by laying prone upon the floor, ramrod straight? Or shall Matthias crouch down in order to resemble an owl upon a perch?
Pretty sure this comment just made my whole day happy.
Alas! The villages repeated attempts to recreate Timothy the Great’s posture of bended knee have now ceased to elicit joy. Canst thou find a new muse? Behold Robert the Third!!
People are fucking stupid
Yes. Yes, they are.
That ESPN segment really agitated me >:(
Then end of Griffining
*the end
“They’re not forcing anything or trying too hard at all”
and that, my friends, is why I refuse to watch ESPN’s coverage of pro sports.
The best part about this meme is that most Redskins fans are too fat and un-athletic to spread their legs apart far enough to actually assume the position.
When I saw the clip on the sports network of him putting his two fingers and hands up, and then kids started to take pictures of them doing the same that was hilarious!