Shorts Reviews: Sports Friends ‘Football’

Spoilers Below

After a nice weekend of watching Week 3 NCAA Football and Week 2 NFL Football, it made perfect since to dive into the five football-themed episodes of Sports Friends.

Unfortunately, the first episode I watched featured Peyton Manning and Wes Welker. Don’t get me wrong, the episode was pretty damn funny, but after just watching Manning, Welker, and the Broncos lay a bitch-slap on my Giants this past Sunday, it was a pinch of salt in my still-healing wound. Regardless, hearing Welker fondly recall his time with former teammate Tom Brady – whom, according to him, “can’t lose” – was funny. As was Peyton’s mumbling retort of “I mean, he did lose those last two championships…” and his name mishap at the end. Definitely worth a watch.

The Alex Smith & Colin Kaepernick was next, and it was amusing as well. Not as good as the previous episode, but it did have a similar awkwardness. Maybe even a little bit awkward.

Watching Matt Ryan getting babied by his ginormous offensive lineman was pretty funny too, and the Jay Cutler/Brandon Marshall one was even funnier. Cutler claiming that field goals, basketball, and defense (football defense) are boring to him, was great, as was Brian Urlacher’s appearance. Although it was a bit odd seeing the currently-retired Urlacher back on the field for some reason (long animation turnaround?) he still had a great closing line. I must’ve watched him stare oddly at the camera and say, “I always hit it into the net,” at least six times.

The best line, however, came from the Joe Flacco/Ray Rice episode. I won’t repeat it here, but let’s just say it was borderline anti-Semitism delivered with complete innocence.

I think the fact that I like the game of baseball a bit more than football might tip the scales between the different sports’ Sports Friends episodes, but I’m going to give them a slight edge over this group of episodes, and proclaim baseball the winner.

Next week: Basketball!

 

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