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.
9 comments
Prickly Pete
Sports brought out the worst in me. I never felt camaraderie until I “salvaged” wood and built a ramp with my friends.
orezona
ZOMG it totally cost him the game!!1!
Troy
Isn’t he a little old to be playing football?
Concretin Nik
HA! Indeed. (love the new photo Kilwag)
kilwag
Yeah, for some reason I couldn’t find one like this when I first put it up. I ran out of time and had to put it up. It was bugging me all day.
A little old to be playing football… WINNER: Troy!
mc
I hope he was wearing full football pads and helmet.
talentlessquitter
It’s alright if he wears his full game outfit.
colinwalshrules
someone..? needs to make him a pro model, or bro model, all the same. skate er die, brah.
Grover
It is still true being on a team(in the winter) forces you to interact with a group of people. Baseball is in the spring, that’s when we start training for the X-Games. Duh!