{"id":12090,"date":"2019-01-28T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12090"},"modified":"2020-10-30T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T21:25:57","slug":"scott-sterling-comic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12090","title":{"rendered":"Scott Sterling, Comic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witness comic genius in these two skits about the epic Yale athlete Scott Sterling and his ability to block the ball. The first video featuring soccer penalty kicks came out in 2014 (though before this weekend I thought it was much older than that). It&#8217;s one of the funniest videos of the decades, only made better by the follow-up volleyball video released in 2016. The execution and pacing of these videos sells the comedy marvelously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling (Official Original) - Studio C\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8F9jXYOH2c0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>The unstoppable Scott Sterling, soccer goalie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Best Volleyball Blocks Ever with Scott Sterling - Studio C\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oY2nVQNlUB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>The unstoppable Scott Sterling, volleyball team captain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the man said, when Armageddon comes I want to be in a bunker made of that man&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witness comic genius in these two skits about the epic Yale athlete Scott Sterling and his ability to block the ball. The first video featuring soccer penalty kicks came out in 2014 (though before this weekend I thought it was much older than that). It&#8217;s one of the funniest videos of the decades, only made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scott Sterling, Comic gold<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[559,2515,2697],"class_list":["post-12090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-goofing","tag-comedy","tag-scott-sterling","tag-studio-c","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14697,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090\/revisions\/14697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}