OK, I have despised Keyshawn Johnson since he played for the NY Jets. The Jets were my "adopted" team while I lived in NYC, and it was hard for me to root for them while this prima donna strutted around, shooting off his mouth, and doing exactly 0 to help the team while continuously bashing his teammates. Surely you remember his epic auto-biography - "Just give me the damn ball", right?
Anyways, I was watching the Tampa/Indy game last night. Monday Night Football had wired the miracle mouth, and showed him walking up and down the sideline making fun of one of the receivers for the Colts. I'm not sure who the Indy receiver was (not a team I follow at all) - but Keyshawn kept going on about "Is that how he get his catches?" and "he's supposed to be the #1 receiver in the NFL, and that's how he get his catches". Typical Keyshawn stuff. If you've ever seen a Keyshawn post-game interview, you will know what a pompous ass he is. I am convinced he was the inspiration for that beer commercial (bud?) that shows the football player placing the blame for his team's loss squarely on his teammates - for failing to recover any of his 4 fumbles.
So, all I can say, Keyshawn, is
Notice that Keyshawn didn't play in the OT. This was also typical of his tenure when he was with the Jets - just give up if things looked hopeless. Good thing that Manning didn't have that attitude.
In fact, I have a suggestion for the sequel to Keyshawn's "rookie" autobiography....
The Colts reciever was Marvin Harrison, who routinely has better stats that Keyshawn. I enjoyed the outcome last night as well.
Posted by: Drake on October 7, 2003 08:37 AMKeyshawn has been a prima-donna punk ass since college. You want some insight?
In college I worked for the football team. I was one of a half-dozen student equipment managers for the University of Washington Huskies. Not a bad deal all around: go on road trips, go to bowl games, get some cash, meet some guys on their way to "The League," etc.
I think it was 1995 when we played USC, and in came Keyshawn. Loud, obnoxious, a punk. All the things that most college players are, except with the volume cranked to 11.
This was the last season that college football had ties before they adopted the tie-breaker system, and wouldn't you know it.... we tied USC. It was one of those games where anybody could've taken it in the last minutes, but USC had pissed away a 21 point half-time lead and was lucky to get out with the tie.
That year I was the designated liason to the visiting team. I got them whatever they needed, and got some cool trades from them while they were in town (shirts, hats, helmet stickers, footballs with school logos, all kindsa good stuff). So I'm in the USC locker room post-game, cleaning up, and most guys are cool with me.... hey I'm the guy gettin their Gatorade and box lunches, why fuck with me?
Except for Keyshawn.
He's a dick. Everytime he sees me he glares. He makes nasty comments. "Get that purple shit outta here!" he yells at me - I'm of course wearing Husky purple and gold, but I'm in the Trojan locker room in a sea of scarlet and yellow. He's an asshole the whole time.
Now, I understand that tempers run high in sports, and that half these guys are cavemen anyway (they've all ingested no much Creatin at this point that I half-expect them to burst through their clothes like the Hulk), but everybody else, the other 40 some-odd guys on the USC travelling squad are cool. At best they thank me, at worst they ignore me completely like I'm a fart in an elevator (something to be tolerated until they can get out of my presence), but only Keyshawn is a dick. Repeatedly. To the point where I wanna get in a fight with the guy. Sure he'll kick my ass(he's at least 5 inches taller and has no less than 40 pounds of muscle on me), but I'll make damn sure he's minus some extremities and maybe an eyeball before I go down. I'm ready to make sure there's no way he'll finish the season. Anyway, he finally got his ass outta the building and onto the team bus.
In my four years at UW, I met some class acts (Lou Holtz), some damn good guys (Damon Huard), and some great players (Napolean Kaufman, Brock Huard, Lawyer Malloy), but without a doubt, the biggest asshole football player I've ever personally met was KEYSHAWN JOHNSON (who just barely topped out Ryan Leaf.... but that's another story entirely....)
Posted by: Mike the Marine on October 7, 2003 09:38 AMGee, when I saw the commercial, the first thing I thought was 'Leon . . . Deion, coincidence?'
Posted by: John S Allison on October 7, 2003 12:15 PM