This man is the bees' knees

Imagine you're a professional football player. It's after the game, you've just beat the Dallas Cowboys. It's time to attend the after-game press conference. You roll your eyes. Booooriiiiing. It's the same stale questions asked by the same motley bunch of reporters. Time to don a fake smile and hope they don't ask you about the back taxes you owe, or your ties to the latest pro athlete to be accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. You just want to answer the same set of 20 questions and drive home in your Lamborghini.

Enter Tom Gribble AKA Scoops Callahan AKA "that really funny/amusing/irritating 1920's sports announcer guy." He sticks his mic in your face and suddenly the press conference comes to a grinding halt. There are looks of amusement and discomfort on the faces of everyone present, as they look to you to answer the guy that sounds like he just arrived from 1927 in a time machine. Hilarity ensues.

I don't know where this idea came from but... wait, yes I do. If you were listening to the Kevin and Bean show on May 6th, they interviewed Tom... and he's totally not who I was expecting behind the facade. Here he is being interviewed by the boys:

I love what Kevin says and Tom confirms: "Hey, they're just coaches and athletes, right? Calm down." Amen. As great as they are (and as much as they're paid), they're still human beings. It's fun to see how some of them deal with situations like that and how many of them are well-grounded.

Some more of Tom's fine work: