The Colts reciever was Marvin Harrison, who routinely has better stats that Keyshawn. I enjoyed the outcome last night as well.
Posted by Drake at 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 at 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 at October 7, 2003 12:15 PM