He Was a Soldier of Tampa. Honor Him.
The Buccaneers commemorated the career of big lumbering white guy Mike Alstott last night with the first sherbet-colored jersey the guy wore as a member of the Bucs. Y’know, the one where they spelled his name incorrectly. Way to let the guy know he was appreciated. Feel free to joke all you want about it, just don’t let Slate catch wind of your hijinx, lest they humorlessly deconstruct why you enjoy something. Hey, Seth Meyers should work there!
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October 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Wait, wait, Drew said you hated Tina Fey!
October 20th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Doesn’t mean I like Seth Meyers.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
His jersey was mispelled for the first two games of his rookie year. The mistake apparently was intentional.
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/article862293.ece
I’m just pointing this out to all the other semen swishers who, like me, didn’t bother reading the post.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Ape doesn’t like Tina Fey, so therefore he MUST like Seth Myers? Awesome logic there.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Go Tapma!!!!
October 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
just so everyone knows where i stand – fuck slate. do they have to make everything suck?
October 20th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
To be fair, he can’t spell it either.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Is Alsott from Mississippi? I hear they like to fuck up the spelling on last names.
/looking at you, Favre
October 20th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
@Animal Mother – Actually MS does know how to fuck up the spelling for last names. At one point when your drivers lisc would expire they would mail you a new one. My last name is Brown. A very easy and very common fucking name that in no way could you could fuck up. They spelled it Brocon.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Why exactly would Steve Mariucci be part of the video tribute???
October 20th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
OMGWTFBBQn00bPWNAGE!!!!!11122269
October 20th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
And Al Michaels is an elitist for thinking people are dumb for calling Tampa, Tampa Bay, and Joe the Plumber is really Sam the Jew.
/no anti-semito.
//totally clearwaterhomo tho
October 20th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
you spelled fail wrong.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I swear to God, I saw Mike Alstott on Wheel of Fortune (shut up I live with my parents) during NFL Week. The board read:
_ _ ANTITIES ARE LIMITED
He spins, lands on some cash, and before his sweet little old lady partner can say “Q”, Mike Alstott gets all excited and screams out for a “K”.
Pat Sajak almost died.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
What is up with the words sports and games creating automatic links to the post with an ad attached?
Oh, and no homo.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Not games, game.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
OK, I guess game doesn’t work either.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I loved Alsott when he played for Tampan. Tampan, such an absorbant city.
October 21st, 2008 at 1:07 am
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=2339025
October 21st, 2008 at 2:42 am
It’s that attention to detail which has made the Bucs the dynasty that they –
Wait, what? Oh. Never mind.
(Although the uni geek in me is impressed. That they’ve got the balls to put the jersey out there, typo and all, says something.)
October 21st, 2008 at 3:35 am
In their defense, he WAS a fullback. They’re only slightly more important than kickers in the grand scale of the game.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:01 am
He was my favourite RB… Great player and great career!
ps. And his name was misspelled on purpose.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I noticed the misspelling on the live brooadcast and thought to myself “I really hope KSK picked it up”.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 am
Does he look like a young Mark McGuire or …….
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 am
Um…to all the jew bags who did not care to read, they misspelled the jersey for a reason. That was the jersey he wore for the first two games of the career, which the organization at the time in the 90s misspelled accidentally. They knew there was a typo…for all the cunt flaps who can’t read.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 am
Weezy:
Not only are you a tard for overlooking that I mentioned that the Bucs had the misspelled jersey on purpose, but you did so after someone earlier in the comments did it and was corrected. This makes you just slightly less retarded than the Bucs organization for honoring someone with a jersey that shows at one point they didn’t give a shit about them.