Because we’re a classy blog, and nothing news worthy happened yesterday (Playoff races heating up w/ Giants, Eagles, wins, AFC North losses, the Roethlisberger/Batch injury situation, Brady’s 5th straight 300 yard game, Manning 3000+ for 12 straight years, a shootout between the Browns and Lions) this will be our lead story Monday morning.
If you weren’t incredibly perceptive, there’s no way you noticed the incident pictured above. In real time, it was a flash, but now – thanks to the powers of youtube and screen capture technology, Hester’s ass will be forever immortalized. It was a harmless play (occuring on 3rd and 1 with a minute left, before Cutler’s fitting interception ended the Bears chances), as Hester let a low pass bounce of his hands he was grabbed from behind by a defender (video here including a strange, jiggly slow motion) by the waist line, and down came the pants.
This won’t exactly receive the negative attention that Janet Jackson’s malfunction did, but its worth a chuckle – let’s face it: Bears fans need something to laugh about after watching their playoff hopes all but slip away last night.
Speaking of that: I’ve got a few assumptions as to why Hester allowed this to happen:
- He’s angry at Cutler for overthrowing him, and several other Bears receivers open deep last night, and thought that this was an appropriate gesture.
- He wants the worlds toget a look at the goods – football clearly isn’t panning out this year – perhaps nude modelling in the offseason will keep him occupied.
- He was playing charades, and was trying to describe how he felt about the Bears’ season (3 syllables, 2nd+3rd syllables – bareassed – EMBARASSED!)
- Again, with football not panning out, he thought he’d try out for the broadway edition of Twilight New Moon.