So, I don't know if you've heard, but Steve Luptak and Joe Hill have become YouTube superstars with their trick shot video. It was the fourth-most watched video in the Sports category on YouTube Wednesday, and was the 51st most-watched video on the whole site in the United States. Just in case you haven't seen it, here it is.
But that's already been on this space. This post is about how many different places that video has shown up. Check out this (incomplete) list:
Chicago Sun Times, SB Nation, DC Sports Bog, Bleacher Report, Slam Online, The Big Lead, ESPN, Sporting News, BroBible, BarStoolU, Buzzfeed, SportsCasm, Politico (as Jeff Jones quipped after the game, "How do you think that happened?"), Huffington Post, Yahoo, DCist (which wins my best headline award) and NBC Washington. The video also made SportsNation on ESPN, and won an online poll between it and the longsnapper trick shot video. It was also the last item discussed on Around the Horn, and Jackie MacMullan won the show by saying that the video was awesome.
Fox5 also sent a camera crew and had Hill shoot more shots, and they went down. They should send the video to NBC Washington, which spent the whole post talking about how the footage was probably fake. I have it on good authority from several people involved with the video that it was shot with a Flip cam and was definitely not fake, and that some of the shots actually didn't take that long.
There are still more interviews to come, and I'm sure there are tons of links that I missed. Bottom line, at about 6:20 PM tonight, the video had 40,000 hits. As I type this, it's over 108,000.
I would assume that if we win the PL and were in the tournament, this video will give us some solid exposure. I'm sure we'll be pretty lovable underdogs and you can bet a million dollars that during a break in the game, CBS will talk about and show some clips.
ReplyDeleteIf you have it on good authority they used a flip cam, can I inquire as to where it was obtained from? The library perhaps?
ReplyDeleteUh. One of them could just own a Flip cam? Is that such an outlandish possibility? Why does it matter where they got it from?
ReplyDeleteUh. One of them could just own a Flip cam? Is that such an outlandish possibility? Why does it matter where they got it from?
ReplyDeleteB^3 Media services (where I work) lends them out and it would make a good blog post about the kinda things you can do with them if they did get it there. I was just curious about it.
ReplyDeleteI believe the camerawoman (Tiana) owns one for her class.
ReplyDeleteAh, I see. Sorry Rob, shouldn't have jumped on you there. I'm glad the library has them to offer, because they're saweeeeeeeet.
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