PinWheel Procrastination Video: The One Where We Date Manti Te’o
PinWheel Procrastination is where we talk about all the nonsense that happened online and in the news. Also we make a little fun of people. Let me know if you would quite your 6 figure job to be a starving artist. I’ll starve, but Duffy still requires his organic food.
What about a little skit in which three members of a football team interview MT right before the draft. The twist is they come from a fictitious team (perhaps one from comic Gil Thorpe or similar). Each will will tell wild things about the city they live in (fictitious), the team and players (all fictious, and increasingly bizarre), crazy football schemes, astronomical amounts of money, and yet MT just eats it all up. Then MT starts answering questions, with an escalating amout of exaggeration (“why, yes, I leapt three buildings in a single bound. Yes, I once tackled all 11 oppposing players on same down). MAybe one of the interviewers can be a little foppish, “Mr. T. Our team colors are burgundy and pink. Can you see yourself in pink? Why, yes sir, for the amount of green you are offering, I can wear anything. Even Dolphin colors.) [Sarah edits that last comment out] Anyway, you could go wild with this, maybe even at one point him doing a Hilary on them.
What if you could get Jim Carrey to do his bikini woman flexing, introducing herself to Manti as the wide receiver for the team. A cameo. And maybe have a gay player on the team refuse to play with Manti “because he is too hot.” Lot of things you could poke fun at. . .NFL, homophobia, catfishing, sport hero worship, the media, overblown self importance (ie. NFL owners), etc. Just a few thoughts. SNL. . .here I come!