Funny Television of the Week
Cidu Bill on Aug 18th 2010
Okay, so I’m watching a basketball game last night… actually, running on a treadmill in the health club and listen to my mp3 player, but there was a television screen right in front of me… and I look up and there are these two players going at one another like this:
Except, of course, imagine these two as enormous, fierce-looking black guys. I thought I was mistaken, but they showed a replay and yes, they were engaged in a little-girl slap fight.
Eh, maybe you had to have been there.
The interesting thing is, the night before, there was a WNBA game on that same television screen, and those girls are freakin’ vicious! We’re talking Rollerball-level violence.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Rollerball, WNBA, basketball | 17 responses so far
Elyrest Aug 18th 2010 at 03:10 pm 1
You should have sited “Questionable Content” for the delightful illustration - real he-men there.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/
CIDU Bill Aug 18th 2010 at 03:16 pm 2
You’re correct, Elyrest, I definitely should have credited the image I used.
And the fact that I’d read the QC strip just one day before I saw the NBA sissy-fight did make the whole thing funnier for me.
James Schend Aug 18th 2010 at 03:26 pm 3
And there’s no YouTube link? Fail.
Was it Matt Barnes? I can find news stories about his slapping, but no footage…
Elyrest Aug 18th 2010 at 04:00 pm 4
Bill - I obviously meant cited, rather than sited, but you graciously used credited in your response. Thanks.
Cidu Bill Aug 18th 2010 at 04:23 pm 5
Obviously I sighted the comic even if I forgot to cite it.
CIDU Bill Aug 18th 2010 at 06:24 pm 6
James, all I can tell you is it was a Knicks-Heat game. I have no idea who those little girls were.
Morris Keesan Aug 18th 2010 at 06:37 pm 7
Bill, don’t you mean “enormous, fierce-looking African-American guys”?
Cidu Bill Aug 18th 2010 at 06:50 pm 8
No, Morris, because for all I know their immediate families might have come from Africa, which of course disqualifies them as African Americans.
mitch4 Aug 18th 2010 at 06:54 pm 9
I’ve gotten a little behind in my television catch-up, but in a mid-season episode of “24″ that I saw last night there was an alert posted to somebody’s security ID record saying something close to “Arrest on site!”. The beginning I’m a bit vague on, but the “on site” for “on sight” was definite. I even rewound to verify that’s what I saw.
mitch4 Aug 18th 2010 at 06:55 pm 10
(Not quite like the sausage-maker who stumbled into the machinery and got a little behind in his work.)
Penny Nickles Aug 18th 2010 at 08:08 pm 11
Don’t you mean “women” not “girls”? I think that’s what the “W” stands for…
Rebecca Aug 18th 2010 at 08:34 pm 12
It has nothing to do with gender. Real-life fights inevitably look like kids scrapping on a playground.
David A. Rooney Aug 18th 2010 at 08:39 pm 13
Maybe the NBA guys were Metrosexuals? Then again, the NBA has strict penalties for actual fist-fights. After all, these guys are really big, really strong and NOT padded or helmeted like the NFL, so they can cause SERIOUS damage to each other.
Matthew Aug 18th 2010 at 08:52 pm 14
Lol @ Bill and the reference to the previous post.
Keynote Aug 19th 2010 at 03:52 am 15
Most NBA players are poor fighters - their arms are too long. So, a lot of their fights look like slap fights. I’d take an NFL running back in a fight versus an NBA small forward any day.
In boxing, reach is an advantage - but to a point. The only truly gangly (and successful) fighter I can think of is Tommy “Hit Man” Hearns - unless you want to include Jimmy Walker in that ’70s movie, “Let’s Do It Again.”
billytheskink Aug 19th 2010 at 09:15 am 16
Must have been a rerun of a fight, since neither the Heat nor the Knicks would be playing now.
Sad that there hasn’t been a good NBA fight in years, maybe since Charles Barkley body slammed Shaquille O’Neal. The NBA used to produce some excellent fights; Akeem OLajuwon vs. half of the 1986 LA Lakers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar destroying Kent Benson, Dave Cowens body checking flopper Mike Newlin into the 3rd row of seats.
tdcjames Aug 25th 2010 at 08:57 pm 17
Or Rudy Tomjanovich vs. Kermit Washington’s fist. More of a sucker punch than a fight, but proof of @David A. Rooney’s “damage” point.