Tuesday, December 15: Quinton Ganther, Folk Hero
Posted by Matt Terl on December 15, 2009 – 9:32 am
I was sitting in my hotel room in Palo Alto Sunday morning, deeply perplexed by what the the time change had done to the TV schedule (“Wait, it’s 7:00, why are they showing actual football stuff instead of pointless hunting shows?!?”) when Matthew Berry, ESPN’s Talented Mister Roto, appeared and started yammering about new Redskins starter Quinton Ganther as one of his sleepers of the week.
I don’t often take fantasy football advice from people on the TV, because I’m perfectly capable of failing catastrophically all on my own, thanks, but apparently that feeling puts me in the minority. Because at some point in the last few days, between Ganther being pitched as a sleeper and Ganther racking up 93 total yards and two touchdowns on Sunday, he’s become the Chuck Norris of the ESPN Fantasy Football message boards.
I’m assuming everyone is familiar with the Chuck Norris Facts by now, the over-the-top paeans to the action hero’s general awesomeness — “Chuck Norris can sneeze with his eyes open,” and the like. Those are now being applied to the unheralded young running back the Skins signed after Tennessee released him.
ESPN is cleaning up the message board threads as they find them, but here’s a quick screenshot sample from this thread:
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