Jordie at Barstool shared this on Twitter and I’m on my 17th consecutive viewing:

Oh man. What a video!

There’s quite a bit to unpack here, so let’s break it down:

  1. These guys are way too young to be playing pickleball. They all look to be in their 20s or 30s, which means they should be out playing a real sport.
  2. The main actors are a green shirted, bearded guy, and a tank top guy with pink shorts. Pink shorts loses on a foot fault (you can hear the ref call it) and then green shirt yells “come on! let’s go! fuck yeah!” Relax man, it’s a pickleball tournament with temporary nets and there are 5 people watching.
  3. Green shirt goes up to the net to shake hands, then he knocks the paddle out of pink shorts’ hand.* He reaches down to pick it up, then gets kicked right in the face.
  4. His partner, sleeveless green, goes after pink shorts, then does the move where you put your hand on the guy’s face and shove (underrated).
  5. An older woman with a visor tries to get in there to break it up.
  6. Green shirt/beard regains consciousness while a dog starts walking across the court.
  7. A guy wearing a Hurley hat goes over and puts his arm around pink shorts, then the video ends.

I really need to know what happened after this, because it was just getting good. Hurley hat is pointing his finger at a random woman, but saying what? Maybe we’ll get the full clip.

*The issue is that it’s really hard to tell whether green shirt was being a dick or just accidentally knocked the paddle out of the guy’s hand. He could have been overhyped and doing a high five to the paddle and just came down too hard. I think the fact that he reached down to pick it up suggests perhaps that it was an accident, but there could have also been a last-second realization that he was being a gigantic jerk, and he course-corrected in a split second, only to get booted in the face anyway.