Funny story about Michael Clayton

by Paul Mueller on Nov 2, 2009 11:10 PM EST Comment 16 comments

Training Camp, 2006.

Setting: Outside the hotel at Celebration in Orlando, Florida.

Characters: My friend Jay, Cadillac Williams, Joey Galloway, A Shuttle Bus and Michael Clayton.

The players were leaving the hotel and heading toward the shuttle van which was sent to take them to the Wide World of Sports, where the Buccaneers held training camp before moving to the new facility at One Buc Place. We experienced three noteworthy players, the rest were scout team and backup players. Here's how it went down:

Wide receiver Joey Galloway walks over to a crowd of about twenty or so fans stand along the sidewalk behind ropes and security. He signs a few autographs, waves and gets on the bus.

Cadillac Williams walks out the front door and toward the shuttle, approximately 30 yards. As fans plead for autographs, he walks to the van, clearly gearing up for practice with his studio-style headphones covering his ears.

Michael Clayton walks out the front door and to the bus, ignoring the crowd. He is not wearing headphones.

Jay: Hey, Michael!

Clayton doesn't even turn and boards the van.

Jay: Hey, Michael, you'd better come sign something . . . I spent half my season tickets last year watching you drop crucial passes!

The fans go silent. Clayton pokes his head out the double doors of the van and glares at Jay, saying nothing.

After about ten seconds of an akward stare, Clayton realizes Jay has a point, and takes his seat on the bus.

It's possible that it was one of those "I guess you had to be there" stories. But if you were there, and you saw Clayton's face, you could tell that he was reasoning in his own head why he should just sit down and go to practice, because Jay was right, and Clayton knew it.

A lot can happen in ten seconds. A human brain can process almost a hundred thoughts. An Olympic sprinter can run 100 meters. A ball can go from a center's snap to a quarterback's grip and through Michael Clayton's hands.

I wish I had taken a picture of his face. Too funny.

More stories to come from the same historic trip. The next will be a story about Josh Bidwell, a lobster, four Washington Apples, a police officer and Doug Williams.

Stay tuned!

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This is not funny...

This is a tragedy. You can practically hear the sad ROCKY music playing in the background as Clayton turns away.

by Danny180 on Nov 2, 2009 11:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Hahahaha

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, you’re so right. It was that kind of moment.

Paul Mueller

by Paul Mueller on Nov 3, 2009 12:30 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Do you think

he goes to 80sucks.com and keeps making that face while he is reading the content?

You get what you pay for.

by LeeCaz on Nov 3, 2009 12:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Hahahha

hahahahahha

Paul Mueller

by Paul Mueller on Nov 3, 2009 9:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

This is amazing

T-Jack is back, J.J has went back to sucking, Bates won't blitz, Raheem's bored.

by Some other guy who does not care on Nov 3, 2009 4:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Call me crazy,

but is Michael Clayton really an a##hole? (excuse my language). Are the fans hitting him a little hard?
From what I’ve seen on tape, he isn’t that good of a receiver (in the NFL).
Yes, I’ve heard his selfish comments about how the ‘check is in the bank’ and whatnot.
But man, the Tampa community ACTUALLY came up with a site called www.80sucks.com.
His jersey was on the clearance rack right next to Galloway’s and Adam’s. Do you think he reads this stuff? All the criticisms?
Idk I’m just blabbing right now. Kinda no point in this post. But sometimes i feel sorry for the guy. Call me crazy, but i actually sometimes feel bad for him.
Ten years from now, a retired Michael Clayton. How’s he going to look back on his career? Eesh…
I guess we’re all just NFL fans doing our thing…

by rjblitz02 on Nov 3, 2009 6:53 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

during the offseason, I felt bad for him too, and made two videos...

Michael Clayton; Friend or Foe. you can find them by searching on this blog.
After this year however, its hard to make excuses any more.

Will the NY Jets please stop wearing those Titans uniforms. For a team that was only around for one year, Ive seen those uniforms 5 times already!

by Niko Houllis on Nov 3, 2009 8:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yea man

I saw your vids. Great job, he’s definitely on the ‘foe’ side again after a week 1 fluke.
We do have a quarterback issue at the same time. Either our receivers weren’t getting open, or JJ gave up on plays too fast.
Hopefully Freeman does well. I honestly think he’s put in there too fast. I think we should have him in next year, but that’s just me.
Back to Clayton, i hearya Niko, we have to make good use of the 5 year, $25 mill receiver…

by rjblitz02 on Nov 3, 2009 11:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Tough to eat humble pie

but we wrote a few articles after Week 1 about how Clayton looked good and was on his way back. Raheem even said he dared someone to write a negative article on Clayton. Looks like we all we wrong.

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by Buc Wild on Nov 3, 2009 8:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

We were wrong.

In the Philadelphia game specifically, i realized he really can’t catch.

Haha i remember during one of the games, i was in the live thread, and i said ‘I was going to go vandalize his yard’ after one of his drops. Ofcourse I was joking.
Someone replied to me and said, ‘he has no yard, it won’t catch water’.
Anyways, i thought that was funny…haha

But really, there are some drops that just amaze me. I almost see the drop coming once the qb looks his way. I was hoping Clayton would get a fresh start somewhere else this last offseason. I figured his days in Tampa were over, apparently not…

by rjblitz02 on Nov 3, 2009 11:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs