Any Given Business

December 7th, 2007 by Damon

Apparently this one’s been on the web for a week or two, but it’s worth posting for those who haven’t seen it. The announcer gets the call wrong a couple of times, but the ref lets us know what happened. Thanks to Jeff for the link.

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3 Responses to “Any Given Business”

  1. doug Says:
    December 9th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    [and here’s an explanation:]

    Definition giving someone “the business”:
    Ah yes, an easy one! “Giving him the business” is an expression I snatched out of pro football history. Back in 1986 during a game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills someone committed a rare kind of violent foul. The interesting twist here was that in a sport heralded for it’s harsh physicality, this play involved Buffalo’s quarterback! Of the dozens of different positions one can play in this game only three are granted any kind of significant protection by the rules of the game and quarterback is one of them.

    It would have been the sweetest of irony if the quarterback, Jim Kelly, had been the one commiting the foul but poor Jim was on the receiving end. After being sacked (tackled to the ground),Marty Lyons, the Jets player, began repeatedly punching Jim in the head! Although it’s clearly against the rules there is no specific entry in the rulebook against “kicking that guy’s ass”, so the presiding referee expressed himself in the best way he knew how. He clicked on his mic and told the crowd this:

    “Number 99 of the defense, after tackling the quarterback, was giving him the business down there!”

    Hilarious. The line immediately became part of National Football League history. Why would I choose that for the name of the site? Because all in that one moment you have a curious, awkward, but funny mixture; one guy got mad (Lyons), one guy got hurt (Kelly), one guy was left utterly speechless (Dreith, the referee), but true to the old adage humor was in the eyes of the beholders.

    -E

    [courtesy of http://barber.wordpress.com/ ]

  2. doug Says:
    December 9th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

    more love:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zkom-6wMnw&mode=related&search=

  3. Damon Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Thanks for the education, dude! So not only was it funny, but it was a nod to zebras past. Nicely done.

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