Sammy Watkins: Nerd Killer
Rivals Top 50 recruit and Michigan target Sammy Watkins is featured in a rather strange video of a nerd getting wrecked by athletes over and over again. Relevant footage at 1:35.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAe_dOBdMcc
Yes, it's a 90 lb. nerd that he just blindsided, but you have to like the ruthless, nerd crushing killer instinct. Northwestern doesn't stand a chance.
i love that his shoe comes off..
love to see that shoe flipping thru the air in super slow motion.
Sometimes your pants will come off, but we were not fortunate enough to see the pants portion on this strike.
the emo kid as the subject of torture. He wears tight pants, therefore, we won't get to see his pants come flying off.
What's wrong with that dude's hair?
[Note: I'm 31, but now that I just typed that, I feel so much older. Actually... I'm okay with that. His hair is ridiculous.]
Don't worry, it's not an age thing. His hair is just ridiculous
Gotta rip off my friend's blog banner for this one, but no one can reach the nerd/dinosaur-destroying levels of one Carson Butler:
But where did that RVB quote in your sig come from? Do you have a link to an interview?
that wasn't very nice.
that emo kid got rocked at the end.
This video is worth watching because at the end of the video a kid with wierd emo hair gets absolutely lit up.
Wow... Watkins did not hold back.
people with weird hair suck. Only hair like this is acceptable:
Or dreads, I guess. But dreads are only acceptable if you play for the Wolverines, because otherwise you're a thug.
with weird hair. I just don't really like that kid's hair. Pretty sure his hair cut came with a free Thursday album.
I would also argue that if I saw someone with Don Draper hair today as pictured above it would be so conservatively retro that it would be weird. And I would be cool with that.
Should've wrapped up. Braithwaite can fix that.
I must say that is a little disturbing. He could have (and probably did, from the looks of it) seriously hurt the kid.
What does it say about Watkins that he thinks it's funny to blast an unprotected, 90-pound kid like that? Yes, Watkins is a teenager, but all the other teenagers that fake tackled the nerd in the video were light on him.
lighten up Francis.
welcome to the real world. Personally it made me laugh. the kid is more likely then not around 130 lbs...and Watkins is listed around 160 lbs....
Would you laugh if the nerd was your kid? Would you still think Watkins's actions were appropriate? I doubt it. What if the kid was seriously injured? Would it still be funny?
In the real world, where I live, Watkins's hit was entirely unwarranted, especially because I highly doubt that the emo kid asked to get blasted in the manner Watkins blasted him. Indeed, unlike EVERY OTHER KID in that video, Watkins ran right through the emo kid. This tells me that the emo kid didn't say to the kids doing the hitting, "Pummel the shit out of me." Instead, he probably said something along the lines of, "Tackle me and make it look real, but don't hurt me."
Sammy Watkins is a football player. He knows or should know the potentially severe effects a devastating hit like that can have on someone. He knows or should know that people who are smaller than him and not wearing pads or a helmet are even more susceptible to injuries in these situations. It doesn't take a bright or remarkable teenager to understand these facts and act accordingly. In light of that, what he did to the emo kid was wrong.
Seriously? THAT was your reaction to this video?
were you once a "90 pound emo kid" ? it was a made up clip. Purely done for effect, im sure the kid got the wind knocked out of him. Who hasn't playing a contact sport? Im glad you care alot, but i think you are being alittle over zealous here. don't you?
Nobody is contesting whether the clip is "made up" or not. The issue is the hit, and the hit was not "made up."
Let me frame this a different way. Let's say you and I are filming a movie that involves a fight scene. Before that scene you say, "Punch me in the face; make it look hard, but don't actually punch me hard." Then let's say the director rolls tape and I purposely deliver a knockout blow. Would that be funny? Right?
I submit that the answer to both questions is clearly no. You gave me permission only to go so far--to "make it look hard" but not to "actually punch...hard." You did not give me permission to sock the shit out of you. Therefore, my action in doing so would have exceeded the scope of my authority, and it would be wrong.
This video presents a situation no different from the hypothetical. Sammy Watkins likely had permission to "hit" the emo kid; he did not likely have permission to sock the shit out of him (and even if he did, he should know better than to sock the shit out of someone in this situation). By socking the shit out of the emo kid, Watkins exceeded the scope of his (likely) authority, and what he did was wrong.
You've gotta be kidding me.
If my kid had hair like that, I'm pretty sure I'd do much worse than sammy watkins.
O'doyle rules.
Don't be mean guys, I think he was a nerd when he was younger.
the kid obviously was trying to get hurt..or did you miss the whole point of the Vid.
it shows that Watkins likes to destroy school bullies by laying the wood on them
edit:Wording
Love this video.
I imagine Michael Rosenberg or Mark Snyder coming across this video and doing one of these:
"Yessss, come play for Rodriguez....exxxxxcellent..."
no sugarcoat
I like how the emo kid gets up after a few seconds, but if that happened to a world cup athlete they'd be down for twenty-five minutes.
Bet he thinks twice before ripping up that hall pass in the future.
Any kid who thinks, "I wanna make a video with a bunch of athletes knocking me out of my shoes" deserves to be knocked out of his shoes by a bunch of athletes. Mission accomplished twofold: he got knocked out of his shoes by athletes, and I laughed. Hey, at least he was wearing a helmet.
get that guy a scholarship....STAT!
that last hit definitely left a mark
obvious pass interference call
I would say no pass interference. Sammy made the contact when the ball has sailed over the kids head, and it wasn't really catchable (well at least if you're the nerd kid, it's uncatchable)
a bunch of athletes knocked him down....
...but Watkins let him off easy. That was more of a flying hip check. Imagine what would have happened if that had been a fundamentally sound shoulder tackle with both feet dug in for leverage. If Watkins had gone full bore, that emo kid might still be lying in a hospital bed somewhere.
I don't know. If he likes lighting up classmates, Michigan State is going to go after him hard. I heard they've lost a few in that department, so they need recruits to bring up their numbers.
That all depends on whether or not the nerd has an interest in engineering.