Earlier this week Minnesota Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe’s five dollar foot long was put on blast when he accidentally dropped his towel while Fox’s cameras were rolling live from the locker room. Quicker than you can say “Plaxico gotta gun!” his agent released a statement apologizing for the slip up.
Former defensive end of the Philadelphia Eagles Hugh Douglas tells Deadspin that he’s not 100 percent sold on the incident being an accident, and says that football players sometimes drop their towels on purpose once they find out the media will be around.
DS: So, did you drop your towel all the time too?
HD: “No, I didn’t do it. But Hollis [Thomas, former Eagle, current Saint] would do it all the time. Anytime there would be a female reporter in the locker room he’d just let it all hang out. Hollis was funny like that. He’d always try to get people to look at him.”
DS: Did anybody ever look?
HD: “Oh, we caught a couple of ‘em looking. Some would look all the time. But one girl, Courtney Holt? Never ever broke eye contact . . . Yeah, Hollis would always try get Courtney. He’d sit there with his legs spread, rubbing lotion on his nuts. She wouldn’t ever look down, though. She was a true professional.”
Now I’m always up [pun intended] for browsing the pork aisle at the meat market, you know for mid-day fantasizing purposes and what not, but I didn’t have a clue as to what Hollis Thomas looked like. So I hit Google.
[insert sad Lil' Mama face]
Then I hit myself.
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