Ottawa Senators Announcer Has An All Time Awkward Reaction When His Partner Starts Talking About Grindr

Source –  Ottawa Senators hockey announcers Dean Brown and Gord Wilson were promoting their post-game radio call-in show on TSN1200 Saturday for the game against the Montreal Canadiens when the discussion veered into, of all things, the gay meet-up app Grindr.

Here is a transcript:

Dean Brown: “Gord and I … [will take] calls, questions, emails — Tinder, Twitter, Grindr — all the social media stuff. They’ll have that going on after the game tonight.”

Gord Wilson: “Grindr?”

Brown: “Well, I don’t know what any of them do, so I just mention them all.”

Wilson: “Is Grindr a thing?”

Brown: “I guess so, I don’t know what it is though.”

Wilson: “Wow, I can only imagine what’s found on Grindr or who’s found on Grindr.”

Brown: “I think it probably has something to do with those Mix Masters, those grinder attachments.”

Wilson: “OK, uh-huh”

Brown: “Probably all the things you can grind with one of those machines, cheese, vegetables. We’ll get Matt to figure out what that is and let us know what Grindr actually is. I heard it and know it’s part of the social media thing. Not that I’m old and not into this.”

If you read the transcript but didn’t hear to the audio, go listen to the audio. The tone in his voice is laugh-out-loud funny. Like, I believe that he doesn’t know what Grindr is, but he sounds exactly like a guy who knows what Grindr is. “Wow, I can only imagine what’s found on Grindr…” I bet you can, Wilson. Everyone in the world now thinks that he’s gay. Which is fine, the only problem is he’s not.

I wonder what little queen threw Grindr into his game notes.  Probably some PA who wasn’t even thinking. Just had the app listed in the social folder on his iPhone and wrote it down. To be fair, it is a social media. The only difference is no one looks at your page unless you’re shirtless. If I were him I’d ask for a promotion. His little snafu created quite the social buzz. If there was a gay Twitter I’m sure they’d be all over it.  Trent wrote a blog a few weeks back about a town councilman who had a similar freak out. He summed up the reaction perfectly.

By the way, the guy who freaked out is totally gay, right? He has to be. He’s super duper gay. You don’t have that reaction unless you’re gay and you don’t want anyone to find out. You have to overcompensate to really try and convince people you’re not gay. “I’m so not gay I’m gonna yell at this guy who touched my arm for half a second just to prove to everyone in this room how un-gay I am.” That’s what we just watched. Hey man, it’s okay to be gay. In fact, it’s been hot in the streets for awhile now. Embrace who you really are.

This guy wasn’t as extreme as the arm toucher but it’s funny nonetheless. Hopefully he went home after the game and downloaded the app. Wouldn’t want him to be misinformed on the air.