Gus Johnson: Dancin’ Queen Diva
I don’t know much about basketball, but Wikipedia tells me that guy on the left is Clyde Frazier, who is apparently a very famous former NBA player and current spokesman for Just For Men hair products. That’s good to know, I guess, but the look on his face when the guy on the right (Gus Johnson, who Wikipedia tells me is also famous) starts singing “Dancing Queen” completely transcends my lack of knowledge of basketball.
You don’t need to know a damn thing about basketball to know that dude looks REALLY bummed out.
Is there really no place for ABBA in sports? I’m pretty sure I’ve heard “Dancing Queen” while cosmic bowling and playing mini golf, but is that as far as it can go? Is it really so wrong for a full-grown man to express a healthy appreciation for Swedish disco?
I know the connotations: Disco is kind of fruity and sports are the opposite of fruity, therefore sports dudes can’t admit to liking disco. That sounds simple enough, but you know what? I’ll bet all those dudes making shitty faces and nodding disapprovingly all know the words to “Dancing Queen.” I bet a good number of them have it on their iPods buried in a secret folder named “Untitled,” and I bet the file itself is renamed something like “Eye Of The Tiger” or “Sports Mix Vol. 1″ or “I Can’t Get Enough Pussy - What Can I Say? I Just Really, REALLY Like Pussy,” which is weird, because that’s obviously not a real song title.
If you’re reading this, members of the basketball community, I have a message for you: loosen up a little. The gay 90s came and went, and now, in these enlightened 00s of ours, it’s totally socially acceptable to admit to liking ABBA. Also, please change the rules of your game to make it not seem so boring to me. All that running back and forth… it’s a real snoozefest. Try to incorporate weapons or booby traps or something.
Oh - also, please teach me how to dunk. That would be awesome.
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April 4th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Dammit Stiles!
Tokyo girl, Tokyo girl,
You got the moooves to rule the world…
You just made “the list” too.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:26 am
It could have been worse… He could have started singing Ace of Bass.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight,
Won’t somebody help me chase these shadows away…
Fuck. You’re on “the list” now, too, Michael.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:00 am
No, everyone in ABBA are still alive, but the two guys in the group have morphed and now look exactly like each other. Freaky.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
As long as they’re not singing “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)”, then I’m okay with it…
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Silly Ross everyone knows Jews can’t play Basketball.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
haha, cosmic bowling. the memories.
and basketball TOTALLY needs more rusted spike pits and whirling blades of deathy doom. good nooner, I need a cig.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Clyde looked pissed!!!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Well Clyde Frazier may believe that Gus singing Abba was “fruity” and “homo” but I believe the beard on his face that gives him the look of a vagina is what should really be called into question.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
If I could spend time in a hot tub with three people, I would choose Gus Johnson and two hot chicks (preferably one asian) with no sexual inhibitions and a thing for black guys with proper grammar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgeqrYxu_YM
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I don’t see a reason to completely destroy a man because he likes the abortion called Abba. Didn’t one of them die recently? Abba sucks. Fuck them.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Damnit!!!! Now that stupid piece of crap song is stuck in my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That nooner video should have came with a warning
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
If you ever wondered what utter contempt and hatred looks like, just watch Clyde Frazier. I think at that exact moment he was composing his resignation letter. Or suicide note.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:43 am
tyte nooner.