The Tampa Bay Buccaneers released five veteran players this afternoon — among them running back Warrick Dunn and linebacker Derrick Brooks — and someone over at ESPN.com was not gonna let this opportunity pass without slipping in a reference to everyone’s favorite 90s-line-dance-craze country duo:
For the briefest of seconds, I was hoping Brooks & Dunn peed on the Alamo and got themselves banned from the city of Tampa and ESPN was covering this for some reason (or whatever the Tampa Alamo equivalent is… Busch Gardens?) I’m also a bit disappointed they couldn’t cram an “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” reference into the headline, but I’m not picky.
Brooks seems to be taking the news rather well, but Dunn seems awfully pouty in his typical “I look like Eric Stoltz in a Chuck Norris Halloween Costume” kind of way:
