Dumping Them Out: Quarterback & Wimbledon
Welcome back to another episode of Dumping Them Out. I wonder how long I'm going to be doing this for. I have a pretty bad track record of starting things, sticking with them for maybe a month, then moving on to something else. But Dumping Them Out lives on. I'm pretty sure I've been doing it for a year now. Not that a year is that impressive or anything, but it sure is a lot of Boob GIFs.
Like everybody else I've been watching Quarterback on Netflix. Here are some general thoughts.
General Thought #1: You know that the producers had a whole ass Jackson Mahomes storyline that they had to completely scrap when he did that sexual assault thing. I guarantee they have so much footage of him dancing like an asshole, and interviews with Patrick Mahomes where he talks about his brother and what he thinks of his TikTok's. That footage exists somewhere. It would have been like half an episode I bet. Man that kid really a good thing going for himself and he fucked it up so bad.
General Thought #2: I was not prepared for Kirk Cousins to be as likeable as he is. The episode where he's talking about how his career had reached a point in Washington where he was going to get benched, then he had that huge comeback win against the Bucs and screamed "YOU LIKE THAT" in the tunnel. I legit got emotional when he was talking about it. Good for Kirk. I'm cheering for him now.
General Thought #3: I don't know if a quarterback like this exists (I'm pretty sure he doesn't), but for the next season of Quarterback, I want it to feature the quarterback who puts forth the bare minimum amount of effort. Like if there were a quarterback who is just so incredibly talented that he didn't really have to prepare, and was just good enough to kinda roll out of bed and win football games. Or even if it's a shitty quarterback who doesn't care, I'd take that. I just think it'd be funny to see the polar opposite of Patrick Mahomes or Kirk Cousins who have so much respect for the game and do everything humanly possible to be the best they can be. Johnny Football or Jamarcus Russell would have been hilarious. Or maybe Michael Vick back in his dog fighting days where he was flying to Newport News to fight pit bulls every week. I wouldn't hate seeing a trainwreck next season.
General Thought #4: I was trying to think what other professions would be fun to do a Quarterback style documentary on. For example, if there was a mailman who took his job as seriously as Patrick Mahomes takes football, I would like to see that.
"You know, I put my heart and soul into delivering the mail. It's what I live for. But it's still crucial for me to spend time with my family as much as possible. I'm a dad first and mailman second. My wife and kids help keep me grounded and remind me that there are more important things in life than the mail."
General Thought #5: I'm not a fan of Brittany Mahomes or anything, but I see a bunch of people talking about how annoying her voice is. I don't get it. It's a normal voice. She definitely does annoying things, but I truly feel like she has a fairly regular voice. It's also funny to talk about how annoying Brittany's voice is when she's married to Patrick Mahomes, who might have the wildest voice in sports.
Moving on to Wimbledon (tennis). This Djokovic vs Alcaraz match is some good ass tennis. I don't know shit about the sport, but I get fired up every time Alcaraz hits a drop shot. It's impossible to find good Wimbledon highlights on Twitter but here's one he pulled off the other day. But it was way cooler against Djokovic.
Having the balls it took to hit those in the final game is nuts (pun). I'm glad he won. It's also kinda hilarious that the Princess of Wales (would) presents the trophy to the winner. Tennis is so proper it cracks me up.
The fucking movements the ball boys/girls make are so stupid. Why do they have to pretend to be robots? Can't they just retrieve the ball like a normal person. Honestly they should just have dogs retrieve the balls. That would be much cooler.
One more thing. I was at the gym this morning (not to brag), and they didn't have Wimbledon on any of the TV's. I'm not sure how someone would be able to actually monetize this idea, or turn it into a successful business, but there should be a company that you could hire to make sure your business (gym, restaurant, etc.), always has the right sports on their televisions. Again, I don't know how that would actually work. You'd have to remotely give the company control of your televisions, and they'd have to understand where exactly each TV was located to make sure the games were distributed properly. That seems like it would take a lot of work, but it feel like it's a cool idea. It's so annoying when you go somewhere with all the requisite televisions but they don't know what to put on their TV's.