RANDY SHANNON WAS FAT?

by Orson on Mar 10, 2008 5:04 PM EDT

While you're busy trying to recoup your money from your numerous investment deals with sports talk radio hosts...

In case you need further proof sports journalism may be done by anyone, the SportsKids interview with Randy Shannon is just as revealing as any interview we've read with a coach since the infamous greatness of Michael Lewis' New York Times Magazine piece on Mike Leach. Did you know Randy Shannon was a fat kid? Or that his favorite soda was grape Nehi, and that his favorite cartoon is the Justice League? No, you didn't.

We are not joking: this is a cunning tactic. Take a hard-bitten stoic type like Shannon and send in cute kids in ties to disarm him We kept waiting throughout the clip for the earpiece to fall out, for Kirk Herbstreit to fall out of the closet where he'd been feeding questions to the kids through an earpiece, but nope: it's just them, and their questions don't actually seem any less substantive than anything we've ever seen on a Gameday interview.

Now, if we can just find the perfect keys for the lock to undo Urban Meyer's tightly wound soul: Jimmy Buffett? A man in a penguin suit with an automatic rifle over one, er...flipper? A naked but casual Marion Cotillard? (Judging from internet research, she may be naked RIGHT NOW ON CAMERA.)

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Boyz II Men have really let themselves go.

by notthequarterback on Mar 10, 2008 5:14 PM EDT reply actions

Marion Cotillard has been more naked on film than a 50 year old porn star after her retirement.

At least that what the internet tells me. I haven’t looked or anything.

by ThreenOut on Mar 10, 2008 5:16 PM EDT reply actions

“If you were Harry Potter, how would you defeat Voldemort?”

WANT TINY KID IN TIE.

ALSO RANDY SHANNON’S BABIES.

by The Great Barstoolio on Mar 10, 2008 5:18 PM EDT reply actions

I was really surprised that his favorite food was chicken.

by jerk says on Mar 10, 2008 5:23 PM EDT reply actions

I don’t know if Urban would open up to Buffett, but he might come around if Buffett can get Loggins to do a movie theme.

by PW on Mar 10, 2008 5:37 PM EDT reply actions

The Urbs wants the Log

by The underrated Sorola Palmer on Mar 10, 2008 5:39 PM EDT reply actions

This is the kind of kid who grows up thinking he’s going to be a Major League baseball player. Parents should really start shattering dreams a lot younger, IMO. Heh.

by Brian on Mar 11, 2008 9:17 AM EDT reply actions

Before I hit play, I thought I was looking at Rex Grossman in the static opening frame. Is that weird?

I always thought Randy Shannon’s office would be like a scene from a 2 Live Crew video. How disappointing.

by Ryan on Mar 11, 2008 9:29 AM EDT reply actions

Well Max, looks like it’s tossed salad fer supper tonight!

by EZ on Mar 11, 2008 11:16 AM EDT reply actions

these kids really ask the tough questions

by Mike on Mar 11, 2008 7:18 PM EDT reply actions

shannon is a cool down to earth guy.

by derrick watts on Jul 9, 2008 2:09 PM EDT reply actions

It’s funny that you want to talk smack on Randy Shannon and you’re wearing a Bears hat. Who is the best player on your HORRIBLE team? Devin Hester. Where did he come from? Oh thats right, The U.

by Dustin on Nov 29, 2008 5:58 AM EST reply actions