Professional jock gets skate-harassed

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco was busted trying out a skateboard in his own driveway.

I’d never been on a skateboard in my life, so I was literally riding it about 10 feet down my driveway just to see if I could stand on it and stay upright,” Flacco said Wednesday on “NFL Total Access.” “One of my neighbors must have called in looking for (Ravens general manager) Ozzie Newsome and left a voicemail on his secretary’s phone saying, ‘Hey, man, you got to let Joe Flacco know we’re trying to win the Super Bowl around here! He’s at home riding a skateboard. Somebody’s got to let him know what the deal is.’

Geez man, get your head in the game. True story: On the way to a skatepark assorted S&A authors once got into an argument with Grover about whether organized sports build character in young kids. Grover was massively in favor, in a boot camp sort of way. As in all kids should have a mandatory team sports tour of duty. Cut to five years later and he doesn’t want Jack to sign up for basketball because it would distract him from skateboarding. He has loosened up though, he’s coaching his boy’s soccer team.

Joe’s got a big game this weekend. 40 years of skateboarding on sitcoms should have told him to save his curiosity for after the playoffs.

[Source: Yahoo Sports - Orignal Photo: Brett Davis/US Presswire]

- Thanks to Stephanie Murdock for the tip.