I want to fly into your airspace

Posted: October 18th, 2008 | Filed under: Other Sports, Pop Culture | 41 Comments »

OK, I’m pretty sure that Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg did not really come on this little ol’ site to promote a YouTube video. Andy, from what I’ve been reading in the news, has his own issues making sure that Mark Wahlberg doesn’t chase him down and crack him in that “big bleep nose of his.”

However, someone claiming to be Andy — or some spam version of Andy — left a comment about this Sarah Palin music video on YouTube. The claim is that this video was written for SNL tonight but since Sarah Palin herself will be on SNL, it will not run. I have no indication whatsoever if this is true or if Andy Samberg really did the video or if this is all one elaborate scam to get back into my email to send out a spam to everyone I know again.

But, because I am in a hotel in Austin this morning and have about 10 hours left before Missouri plays No. 1 Texas, I clicked on the link to check it out for you, the brilliant readers. Then I clicked on it again. And again. And now I find myself clicking on it every five minutes and cracking up, and clicking on it again and cracking up harder. I have no idea who did this video, how it happened, what it means, or even if it’s actually funny or just seems incredibly funny to me while sitting in a hotel room in Austin ten hours before a football game.

I link to it for you one more time and also embed it below. You can decide if this is one of those ridiculous things that just gets funnier every time you watch it or if it’s just dumb and my humor equilibrium is way off.

41 Comments on “I want to fly into your airspace”

  1. 1: Andy said at 9:15 am on October 18th, 2008:

    Good enough to embed here? You betcha.

  2. 2: Ed said at 9:16 am on October 18th, 2008:

    That’s great. Thanks Joe.

  3. 3: Melody said at 9:37 am on October 18th, 2008:

    HA! That was great. It’s certainly in the style of SNL, even if it’s not really their sketch. I think they should do it anyway. It’s even better if Sarah’s there to enjoy it in person :)

  4. 4: M said at 9:43 am on October 18th, 2008:

    What if it really is Andy? (Please let him know that you and your family will be in NYC in late December and would like to meet up at the Russian Tea Room.)

  5. 5: paul said at 9:49 am on October 18th, 2008:

    Hey Joe, get out of your hotel room and go enjoy one of the great cities this country has to offer.

    Mizzou 42-35 (I hope)

    Red Sox (4-2, I hope, just so we can get a game 7 ((5)) out of these playoffs)

  6. 6: MSS said at 9:50 am on October 18th, 2008:

    Now if only Gogol Bordello does a cover of this…

  7. 7: erik in NYC said at 10:04 am on October 18th, 2008:

    This one has Palin in it too, for a creepy moment:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAbHhGtt8-Y&feature=related

  8. 8: Justyo said at 10:15 am on October 18th, 2008:

    Absolutely frightening on so many levels. And yet, hilarious.

  9. 9: B.E. Earl said at 10:23 am on October 18th, 2008:

    Somehow I think this Wahlberg/Samberg feud is fake and Marky Mark will show up on SNL this week.

  10. 10: Frances said at 11:10 am on October 18th, 2008:

    This is so funny.

  11. 11: J said at 11:53 am on October 18th, 2008:

    Is the election over yet? This is like if there were three months between the conference championships and the Super Bowl – after an 18-month regular season.

  12. 12: Ryan said at 12:42 pm on October 18th, 2008:

    No, that’s pretty funny.

  13. 13: rdriley said at 2:22 pm on October 18th, 2008:

    Plenty funny. I think the guys and their interaction was funnier than the actual song. The weird thing is, that actually looks like Russia.

  14. 14: kehrsam said at 2:34 pm on October 18th, 2008:

    One of the worst such efforts I have seen. Pretty damn funny, though.

  15. 15: Lance Richardson said at 2:51 pm on October 18th, 2008:

    MSS, I was thinking exactly the same thing.

    Gogol Bordello. Best live band on earth.

  16. 16: From Russia With… said at 4:25 pm on October 18th, 2008:

    [...] Joe Posnanski linked this, but I would be remiss if I didn’t share it here. [...]

  17. 17: Preston said at 5:01 pm on October 18th, 2008:

    Very funny. My wife actually knows these guys – she went to college (Middlebury) with them.

    By the way, if you click on “More info” (on YouTube, under where it says who posted it and when), it gives the “words 2 song,” which just add to the experience.

  18. 18: Monkeyhawk said at 5:58 pm on October 18th, 2008:

    I stopped paying close attention long ago, but the KU-Oklahoma droned on and after a meaningless Jayhawks touchdown the team went for the onside kick.

    You kinda gotta like the fight in the team, but c’mon. It reminded be of the Black Knight scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

    But then it dawned on me.

    Seems like good soccer players do a pretty good job of kicking a ball more-or-less close to where some teammate is gonna be by the time a that player gets there.

    Is there something about physics or the shape of the ball that would prevent a lofted kick-off to be right where a speed merchant on the kicking team could catch that pooch kick-off in the air and rocket down the field? Seems like the standard on-side kick-off is put the ball on the ground and hope for luck in the scrum.

    It’s a cliche defense with on-side kicks that “the good-hands people are up front.” So kick it over ‘em. They’re not “the good-block” people so your speed-merchant should be able to zip past ‘em.

    Maybe the problem is we don’t have soccer players as kickers anymore. Seems like football coaches have gravitated toward football players who’ve learned to kick soccer-style.

    A wimpy exchange student from Brazil or Estonia could probably loft a beach-ballish balloon that’d land more-or-less in the same place 10 or 15 yards down the sideline and straight in the hands of a sprinting speed merchant. Consistently.

    The less you know, the easier the answers.

  19. 19: Mikey said at 6:16 am on October 19th, 2008:

    That was so lame it might actually have been written for SNL

  20. 20: Jeff Wright said at 10:41 am on October 19th, 2008:

    Not funny.

  21. 21: Jason said at 10:45 am on October 19th, 2008:

    This great vid is not from SNL, but 4 recent college grads in NYC. I’m proud to say that I was their professor!

  22. 22: Chipmaker said at 10:59 am on October 19th, 2008:

    You were IN AUSTIN and didn’t schedule a book signing?

    Feh.

  23. 23: DF said at 1:09 pm on October 19th, 2008:

    Not funny. Actually unwatchable.

    Paul was half right:

    paul

    Mizzou 42-35 (I hope)

    Red Sox (4-2, I hope, just so we can get a game 7 ((5)) out of these playoffs)

  24. 24: Aaron M. said at 3:53 pm on October 19th, 2008:

    Monkeyhawk:

    The reason you don’t loft a kick like that is because the kicking team can call for the fair catch, and if you interfere by going up for it, you will get penalized on top of the short kick. If the other team isn’t aware of the rule it may be worth a shot, but otherwise it is a wasted opportunity if they do.

  25. 25: Justyo said at 4:22 pm on October 19th, 2008:

    Aaron / Monkeyhawk

    Does the ball have to be coming in your direction to signal a fair catch? Does it have to be within X feet of the receiver before they can signal? If so, perhaps a way around the fair catch rule is to call signals and run a few patterns, with receivers on your on-sides kicking team, between 12-25 yards deep – center of the field or up the sidelines. This way you’re kicking to a spot no one – but hopefully your receiver (in a few seconds) is occupying.

  26. 26: Monkeyhawk said at 5:16 pm on October 19th, 2008:

    I didn’t know you could signal a fair catch on a kickoff.

  27. 27: Tom said at 6:44 pm on October 19th, 2008:

    Why has the comments section for this hilarious video devolved into comments about special teams?

  28. 28: Monkeyhawk said at 7:44 pm on October 19th, 2008:

    “TOM” –

    My bad.

    For one reason, though, it wasn’t that hilarious a video and the thread had pretty much died.

    And Joe is working at his real job and probably won’t blog again for a day or so. (And has he mentioned he’s working on this book?)

    Besides, I’m kind of a fan of trick plays.

    A couple decades ago I saw a high school team pull off a “Hey, you idiots, the ball’s over here” play.

    It was perfectly executed. Choreographed even.

    I don’t have time to explain it here, but I might put it on my own blog if I can remember the password.

    And then there was that time the Wichita State Shockers got snookered by the ol’ hidden ball trick in the College World Series. It was beautiful.

    I long for a good ol’ fashioned hook-and-ladder play.

  29. 29: Jeremy said at 8:01 pm on October 19th, 2008:

    @Lance: I’ve never seen Gogol Bordello, but I will put Great Big Sea up against them, sight unseen, for the title of “best live band on earth”.

  30. 30: Lou said at 8:55 pm on October 19th, 2008:

    I was expecting more!

  31. 31: T-Bone said at 12:07 am on October 20th, 2008:

    How were the NFL picks this week?

  32. 32: Monkeyhawk said at 4:36 am on October 20th, 2008:

    “T-BONE” –

    I think most scores were 19-10.

  33. 33: roarke said at 6:36 am on October 20th, 2008:

    I believe there is an obscure rule in football that requires the ball to touch the ground before the kicking team can recover it. The only reason I know this is because a friend of mine told me a long drawn out story about the time he got the call wrong when he was reffing a high school game. Perhaps the rule is different in college, I don’t know.

  34. 34: Oddibe Kerfeld said at 6:50 am on October 20th, 2008:

    Joe,

    You should have let us know you’d be in Austin. You could have come by our big tailgating party with free barbecue and drinks, tents, and a big screen tv hooked up to a dish and a generator instead of sitting in a hotel room. Sorry we missed you.

  35. 35: Bellylard said at 8:42 am on October 20th, 2008:

    Meh. Once was enough

  36. 36: pat said at 11:02 am on October 20th, 2008:

    The Sarah song is great. One of the most revealing and ridiculous comments the women made !

  37. 37: Richard Aronson said at 12:00 pm on October 20th, 2008:

    I

  38. 38: Richard Aronson said at 12:04 pm on October 20th, 2008:

    (grr). I spent several minutes looking at images of Andy Samberg and the video. It could be him with a hair cut. All the images that came up showed him with much longer hair, probably to hide his ears (I know that trick well) but the chin and nose are certainly close. The only counter indication is that SNL has got Thursday night shows as well these days, and this song is probably good enough and short enough to find its way onto the air sooner or later. I’ve been wrong before.

  39. 39: Mike said at 3:18 pm on October 20th, 2008:

    That is not from SNL.

  40. 40: John-Paul said at 9:27 pm on October 21st, 2008:

    The best is “I made this teliscop myself out of duct tape and the thing that holds the wrapping paper”

  41. 41: Misses Palin | Riding a Buttertub Down the Stream of Consciousness said at 2:57 pm on October 22nd, 2008:

    [...] this on Joe Posnanski’s blog.  It is funny no matter who you are voting for next [...]

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