A few years ago I was driving to work listening to the local
sports talk show. The Ticket talk show
is famous for doing imitations of sports personalities while making fun of
them. They refer to the characters as
‘Fake so and so’ such as ‘Fake Jerry’ for the Cowboys owner or Fake Jason for
the head coach. They are a pretty funny
bits most of the time.
With that as the background I joined into the middle of another
fake bit, or so I thought, with this player making these unbelievable
brag-a-docious statements. Real gems
like, “I’m the best that has ever been, just look it up – I am the greatest.” The interview seemed to go on and on with the
host letting the ‘fake’ player orchestrate their own self love-fest to the
point of narcissist nausea. It was only
at the end did it become apparent that this interview wasn’t a bit, this was no
‘fake’, but rather a real interview with Mike Vanderjagt, the then place kicker
for the Cowboys.
The same Mike Vanderjagt that Peyton Manning referred to as,
“Our idiot kicker who got liquored up”.
The same kicker who at the end of the playoff game between the Steelers
and Colts (his previous team), shanked the would be game tying kick so badly it
missed the field wide right let alone the up rights. I would like to thank him for that gift
leading to the Steelers fifth Super Bowl Title.
It’s been years since I’ve heard that level of self-confident
excess, but now think there is a source of self-admiration-energy so strong it eclipses
even the mighty Vanderjagt. When I came
across this tool over the weekend I was stunned by the simplistic greatness
that is the Kanye West Self-Confidence
Generator. Follow this link to the
website where you can gift yourself a shot of Kanyefidence. Then another, then another. It is spell binding.
I think all that is needed now is to create a game where you
get to guess which quotes are real and what quotes people may add as ‘fake
Kanyefidence’. That would be a cool game. Really the coolest. I mean the “COOLEST OF ALL TIME, BACK TIME AND
FORWARD FUTURE AND RIGHT NOW TIME.”
