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Yesterday we shared with you the thrilling reality of Vanilla Ice on SportsCenter, promoting his third-best theatrical effort to date (behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze and Cool As Ice), Happy Madison’s That’s My Boy.

That appearance could only go in so many directions, and assuming Tokka and Rahzar never burst into ESPN studios and start fighting turtles to a ninja song, it went in the best one — Vanilla Ice 90s-dancing to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ with Erin Andrews. She tried to get away before the jackers jacked. How do you know it’s ‘Ice Ice Baby’ he’s singing and not Queen and David Bowie’s ‘Under Pressure’? ‘Under Pressure’ goes ding ding ding dinga ding ding, but ‘Ice Ice Baby’ goes ding ding ding dinga ding ding CHING ding-ding ding ding dinga ding ding. Obvious difference.

Never forget, this glorious moment was made possible by ESPN’s dearth of coolness and Adam Sandler’s terrible movies. Word to your mother.

[Video via Twitter]

As much as I’d love to fire hipsters on a rocket into the sun, I have to admit that when it comes to anything ESPN-related I am quite the scarf-flipper. In fact, if it weren’t for Twitter, I’d never know what was happening on the Worldwide Leader unless I was watching the network before a game*. Regardless, ESPN apparently had rapper and house-flipper Vanilla Ice on SportsCenter this morning, and I know why, but… WHY GOD WHY???

That made me giggle.

Robert Matthew Van Winkle was obviously on SportsCenter to promote Adam Sandler’s new film, That’s My Boy, in which Van Winkle plays himself, and I’ve already said enough about this certain cinematic disasterpiece. But I hope that he also talked about the Miami Heat, because it would be great to hear sports analysis from a true native of Miami who spent most of his life growing up in Texas.

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