Retired Offensive Lineman Clint Boling, 50 Pounds Lighter From His Prime, Puts Common Man In His Place Via Pancake Block

It's so funny to think about how so many of us who make a living off writing about football couldn't hold a candle athletically to anyone who ever set foot on an NFL field. This article is a case-in-point, Exhibit A reminder of that. Former Cincinnati Bengals guard Clint Boling, a solid if not spectacular former fourth-round pick out of Georgia who carved out an eight-year career in the league to rake in over $26 million in earnings, apparently had enough of his pal even faintly suggesting he could take him in a mano-a-mano trench battle. Wanna see the epitome of the "f**k around and find out" phenomenon? Here you go, courtesy of longtime NFL quarterback Chase Daniel: https://twitter.com/chasedaniel/status/1827803938089038265? The caption Daniel accompanies the post with makes me think he's slightly in his feelings about how people may or may not have reacted to his trajectory as a professional football player. As a public-facing figure who threw a grand total of 273 passes across 13 NFL seasons, you can understand why and how Daniel was an easy target. The flip side of that: Chase Daniel lasted thirteen freaking years in the National Football League, where most players are lucky to play a handful of season. He made himself valuable enough to continue getting opportunities in quarterback rooms and spot-start duties. That's kind of apropos for this story about Clint Boling, who, as Daniel reveals, is 50 some-odd pounds down from his listed playing weight of 311 pounds. Whoever the little nerd boy who lined up across from Boling was — sorry Mr. Boling if it's your son or nephew or something this is all in jest and good fun please don't track me down and yeet me into a parallel universe I'm a huge Bengals fan etc. — he was like Big-Lebowski- Donny-levels (necessarily-capitalized) Out Of His Element. Saw this earlier today and couldn't help but toss it in here. https://twitter.com/brianchaley/status/1827638485890855414 Per Daniel's account of Boling's anatomy, dude is still somewhere in the neighborhood of tipping the scales at 260. Of course a simple one-armed strike to the chest against a terribly average American male is going to send him several feet backwards, onto his rear. As Les Grossman said in Tropic Thunder : That's physics. It's inevitable. I hope this finds you well, fellow football fans, on this sort of calm before the storm, Twilight Zone-y weekend of Week Zero college football and the real-game precursory ennui that is the last week of NFL preseason football. Imma be doing my Les Grossman dance once NFL Week 1 hits. Hope the guy who got pancaked by Boling is in good-enough shape to do the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr9_GfeoCjk