UCLA Farks Overexposed Hopsbrough

07-08 Basketball Media21

Hansbrough
Courtesy of The Onion

The Final Four is almost here. Which means a lot of things…and this year it means that the world will have the ‘pleasure’ of watching the most amazing college basketball player in history!

With Rick Morrissey leading the charge in this fantastic article, we FINALLY have some other folks in the media willing to highlight some of the insanity around the world’s love affair with the previously unassailable Hopsandwalk.

Analysts for my network, CBS, portray Hansbrough as a crime-fighting special-forces soldier. He’s Batman Hansbrough. The only thing missing during some broadcasts of his games is the waving of the American flag and the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.

Tyler Hansbrough: He pulls cats out of trees.
Tyler Hansbrough defeated the Houston Rockets.
Tyler Hansbrough doesn’t do HGH. He is HGH.
Amy Winehouse is addicted to Tyler Hansbrough.
Brett Favre has a Tyler Hansbrough poster on his bedroom wall.
Tyler Hansbrough’s toenail clippings are for sale on the Chinese black market.
Superman wears Tyler Hansbrough pajamas.

Well, the good folks over at UCLA’s message boards have taken ‘farking’ the Hansbrough love affair from words to pictures. And they are absolutely hilarious. Take a look at UCLA’s message boards and enjoy.

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07-08 Basketball Media

21 Responses to UCLA Farks Overexposed Hopsbrough

  1. JeremyH 04/03/2008 at 9:24 PM #

    hilarious

  2. xphoenix87 04/03/2008 at 9:30 PM #

    top notch, I LOLed several times.

    I particularly liked the Saturday Night Fever one, the Karate Kid one and the Jesus Christ Superstar one (“Better than the real Jesus” LOL).

  3. Howler 04/03/2008 at 9:44 PM #

    Hey, seems like I heard somewhere – “Hansbrough never takes a play off – ever.” Amazing and tiring both at the same time.

  4. wolfmans brother 04/03/2008 at 10:46 PM #

    Oh my god, those are hilarious. I have always referred to psycho T as “the Gerber baby,” but now I see I was waay off. Clearly, he IS Beaker from the Muppets. Honestly, I almost pissed myself when I saw that.

  5. spudwebb 04/04/2008 at 12:19 AM #

    /\
    Right after that, the picture of him with the nose cotton taking an Oscar gave me rib pain.

  6. 66pack 04/04/2008 at 6:41 AM #

    This thread is just another indication how bad ncsu athletics has become when the only happiness comes from silly degradation of other schools athletes, especially their all-americans ,of which we have none.

  7. Mr.wolfpack90 04/04/2008 at 7:10 AM #

    I compare t walksfoulborough to a player we had named todd fuller.
    Todd fuller worked his tail off but never achevied the publicity that psycho t does. One reason,he was not one a winning team with good players.Another is that the unc biased media would never give credit to a great nc state player especially after the coaching change at nc state.
    Todd fuller was also an academic all-american and great college player who did not have a productive pro career.
    Tyler h is the same player.
    Fouls are not called in the nba!
    Really,how does this guy win the acct mvp award after having six of his shots blocked?
    Should have been ellington. Who may be their best player along with t lawson. If they leave let’s see how good psycho is? loll

  8. Rick 04/04/2008 at 7:29 AM #

    “This thread is just another indication how bad ncsu athletics has become when the only happiness comes from silly degradation of other schools athletes, especially their all-americans ,of which we have none.”

    That’s right. Only losers enjoy poking fun at other teams

    – UCLA fans

  9. JT94 04/04/2008 at 7:51 AM #

    Yeah, he is a great player….but I don’t care who you are, THAT is funny.

  10. Mike 04/04/2008 at 8:02 AM #

    I agree that I am sick and tired of the Tyler lovefest. But I also agree he is a good player ona good team, and like it or not, the leader of a good team. There is not a person on this board or in the Wolfpack community that would not welcome him to our team. I know I would roll out the RED carpet for him to wear our jersey.

    One other aspect – he and Love both have gotten media props all year long. Hate to say it, but both are also white, and the media, especially TV will try to promote that for ratings. As the game becomes more and more street ball, the networks have to try to do this.

  11. beowolf 04/04/2008 at 8:24 AM #

    Well, anyway, happy twenty-fifth anniversary, everybody. Lee Fowler probably hates every one of you who remembers.

  12. BJD95 04/04/2008 at 8:29 AM #

    It’s actually unfair to the kid that he is overhyped so much. He is a very good player who does play hard…but he’s not the “Basketball Jesus” the media makes him out to be. Lawson and Ellington are just as good and just as important to the team, if not more so.

    He’s also clearly not the best player in the Final Four – that would be Kevin Love. I would probably rank the Rose kid at Memphis second. But both of those guys will go pro fast b/c they have NBA bodies, so the media won’t play them up as much.

  13. Pack92 04/04/2008 at 8:37 AM #

    Oh for heavens sake lighten up. Tyler is a good player at our arch rival. He is immensely over-hyped by the media probably for reasons mentioned above. Whats not to laugh at?If he was just as good at NC State he would be treated the same way Todd Fuller was and you’d never know he was alive. Fuller battled toe-to-toe with one one of the best centers ever in the ACC, Tim Duncan, yet was never remotely mentioned in the same breath for their COLLEGE accomplishments.

  14. wufpup76 04/04/2008 at 9:13 AM #

    “The greatest actor of our generation!”

    Cobra Kai!

  15. Trip 04/04/2008 at 10:14 AM #

    I would disagree with Kevin Love being the best player in the tournament, only to swap him with Rose. Rose has grown immensely over the last 2 months into a sheer force, he’s long, extremely athletic-he has one of the highest verticals I’ve seen from a PG, able to jump high enough to grab rebounds over PF/centers, hell, he cut his head on the rim one time trying to grab a rebound which means he almost has a 4 foot vertical. He’s also probably one of the few people in the nation that can keep up speedwise with Lawson as well.

    Now, add on to that sheer talent an immense basketball IQ and he will be the tournament MVP. Love is a outstanding player no doubt, but Rose is just better. He destroyed Augustine on both the offensive and defensive end, and Augustine was arguably the 2nd/3rd best PG in the tournament and a all american. I would not be surprised if Rose beat out Beasley for #1 in the draft.

  16. nycfan 04/04/2008 at 2:36 PM #

    I think the UCLA photo-shops are hilarious and I love Hansbrough (btw, claiming Hansbrough is Fuller redux strikes me a willfully blind).

    In terms of NBA potential, I think Rose is probably the best talent in the Final Four, maybe in a category by himself. Love is probably next, though he doesn’t have the size/frame to be a slam-dunk NBA success, though I love his skills. I would have LOVED to see him in a Carolina uniform with that ability to make an outlet pass (though I have no idea how he and Tyler might have co-existed on offense).

  17. highstick 04/04/2008 at 3:34 PM #

    And Tyler speaks Swahili too!! 3 courses in learning how to communicate with Tarzan and Chettah!

    I’m trying to get some of my old “language school” military buddies to bring me up to speed on what they remember about Swahili. Best I can remember, it was not one of the more challenging languages to learn and I’m thinking was a shorter course because of that.

  18. john of sparta 04/04/2008 at 7:51 PM #

    everybody hates a Pit Bull
    unless he’s yours.

  19. Canis_Lupis 04/05/2008 at 8:19 AM #

    UCLA needs to put those pictures on a poster and hold them up during the game to keep hopsbourgh rattled. Those pictures are hilarious. ABC baby ( any but carolina) GO BRUINS

  20. BoKnowsNCS71 04/05/2008 at 3:52 PM #

    Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. He’s a good kid who plays hard — unforunately he chose the wrong school to go to.

    Had he come to State, Coach HS would not have played him the first two years while he earned defense, then he would have never been permitted to get in paint that much. And under our current coach, someone would be jealous and never pass the ball to him.

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