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Russell Wilson is the King of Cringe, which is something you never want to be the king of.
Remember that time he did a whole two-minute offense routine all by himself before a game? He called plays and audibles and everything in front of fans and cameras before a game in which he wasn’t playing in due to injury.
I mean, what?
Remember the time he walked up and down the Broncos sideline telling teammates to yell “run!” or “pass!” depending on the other team’s play call?
That video was really tough to watch.
Have you seen those creepy Subway ads of his that went viral?
I’ll never know how he watched those back and thought it was a good idea to release them to the public.
Oh, and the worst thing might be how he ends most of his press conferences with the phrase “Broncos Country, let’s ride.”
Does he really think any Broncos fans are going to be fired up for that? Does he think that is cool? Does he think that’s neat?
Wilson took things to an even more cringey level this week when he told the media about how he spent a lot of the flight to London for this week’s game doing high knees up and down the aisles while his teammates slept.
Read that over again – he did high knees up and down the aisle while HIS TEAMMATES SLEPT.
And then he told the media about it! I mean, keep that stuff to yourself, Russ!
And therein lies the problem – does Russell Wilson not have anyone in his life who can say “hold on a second, don’t do that!”? We all need to have that one friend who can tell us we’re being too corny or too dumb or way too silly and to knock that stuff off. Russ needs that person and he needs them quickly!
Former teammate Richard Sherman and others have been quick to rip Wilson this season for a number to things and it’s starting to be easy to see why many in Seattle grew tired of Wilson.
Russ is a good guy. He does a lot of good things for charity and none of the annoying things he does are done with bad intentions. He’s not a bad person, far from it.
Russ just needs someone by his side to tell him to knock this cringey stuff.
ASAP!
Quick hits: Bears LB emotional over trade… Angry Steve Nash meme… Shaq and Barkley’s funny spelling bet… And more.
– Bears LB Roquan Smith got emotional during his press conference yesterday when he found out his teammate, Robert Quinn, had been traded.
– Steve Nash’s wide-eyed, angry look after getting ejected last night became a NBA meme.
– Shaq bet Charles Barkley $10K that Barkley couldn’t spell the word spectacular and Sir Charles came very close to not winning that money.
– Here are our Week 8 NFL picks against the spread.
