Watching the college football national title game Monday night, you might have noticed that Brent Musburger referred to LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu as “the Honey Badger” as much as possible.
And when I say “you might have noticed” I actually mean it was painfully obvious to anyone who watched even a nanosecond of the game. Was he trying to be hip? Did he not know the player’s actual name? Does he just love the nickname? Was he trying to kill by alcohol poisoning the people playing the “Musburger says Honey Badger” drinking game?
Or has a generation of mindless acronyms instead of original nicknames (A-Rod, D-Will, I-Rod etc.) made us all go bucknuts when we hear an actual nickname for an athlete?
Watch two Honey Badger videos after the jump. Both narrators are men with extremely homosexual sounding voices by the way.
For more on the actual player, and the story of how he got his nickname go here
Over 80,000 views: a song for Mathieu parodied after Maroon 5 “Moves like Jagger.”
And next we move on to a video with over 32 million views. Warning! Language NSFW
There is no other animal in the kingdom of all animals, as fearless as the crazyass Honey Badger. Nasty as hell, it eats practically whatever it wants.
Honey Badger Don’t Care Game App
To learn more about the actual Honey Badger animal
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