RANDY SHANNON WAS FAT?
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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notthequarterback says:
Boyz II Men have really let themselves go.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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ThreenOut says:
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.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
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The Great Barstoolio says:
“If you were Harry Potter, how would you defeat Voldemort?”
WANT TINY KID IN TIE.
ALSO RANDY SHANNON’S BABIES.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
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jerk says says:
I was really surprised that his favorite food was chicken.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
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PW says:
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.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
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The underrated Sorola Palmer says:
The Urbs wants the Log
March 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
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Brian says:
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.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:17 am
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Ryan says:
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.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
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EZ says:
Well Max, looks like it’s tossed salad fer supper tonight!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:16 am
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Mike says:
these kids really ask the tough questions
March 11th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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derrick watts says:
shannon is a cool down to earth guy.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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Dustin says:
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.
November 29th, 2008 at 5:58 am