Saturday, April 6, 2013
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Reporter trips on acid at Super Bowl media day

The first sentence by SBNation's Amy K. Nelson says it all: "Attending my first Super Bowl media day I did not anticipate that I'd be watching a reporter trip his face off..."

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Reporter trips on acid at Super Bowl media day

POSTED: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 4:46 PM

UPDATE (Thursday a.m.): The full story is now available on VICE Magaziine's website. Click here to read it - and you most definitely should.

Here is my favorite part:

As you may or may not know, tripping balls while in the middle of a gaggle of reporters shouting questions two inches away from your ears is the ninth circle of hell. Just as I was about to sprint out of the herd, I saw a man dressed as a superhero of some sort and was sure I had completely lost it.


The first sentence by SBNation's Amy K. Nelson says it all: "Attending my first Super Bowl media day I did not anticipate that I'd be watching a reporter trip his face off..."

According to Nelson, there is a reporter from VICE Magazine in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl - because that's the first place we all go to for Super Bowl analysis - that planned to spend media day while under the influence of the psychedelic drug acid.

And he wasn't planning just a little trip.

Writes Nelson: 

But he agreed to let me write about watching him trip on acid. I mean, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN? I knew I wanted to see.

"I don't know what will happen," he said. "I could wind up making snow angels in the middle of the field."

Hank told me he had five tabs of acid and was going to drop all of them, but not until he was in the building and had everything settled. He didn't want to go to through security or run into any issues while tripping. Smart strategy. We were texting throughout the morning, and the first time I saw him, he was smiling wide, laughing a bit, saying it just was starting to kick in. [MORE]

Maybe VICE Magazine's Super Bowl coverage will be more entertaining and enlightening than I originally thought.

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Comments  (44)
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:03 PM, 01/30/2013
    What?
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:07 PM, 01/30/2013
    Why is this GARBAGE even reported by these druggie writers.
    jim35
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:56 PM, 01/30/2013
    this is just hilarious
    majuub125
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:59 PM, 01/30/2013
    it's entertainment, jimmy. get over yourself.
    dirtfoot
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:16 PM, 01/30/2013
    Jim35, you should drop acid just once. It will change your life. This is classic.
    vvvmetallicavvv
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:00 PM, 01/30/2013
    Remember when Hunter S. Thompson wrote this story the first time, and it didn't suck?
    coqui_chris
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:05 PM, 01/30/2013
    So thats why Les Bowen speaks so slow.
    watsonmr
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:09 PM, 01/30/2013
    Oh, man, I couldn't do A again. But it's fun reading about someone else trying to do SB media day while tripping. Crazy.
    PhillySubsMac
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:19 PM, 01/30/2013
    F-ing awesome. It's nothing but a bloated farce anyway, might as well treat it like the inane sideshow it is. It'd be the only way I could listen to these cement-headed idiots talk about something so meaningless and trivial, and act like I care.
    CiceroSpuriousDeodatusTheSecond
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:09 AM, 01/31/2013
    CicSpuDeo: You are so right. How could a person cover the soggy, dog-eared spectacle that is Super Bowl Week WITHOUT psychopharmacological assistance?
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:24 PM, 01/30/2013
    Dropping acid may be the only way to see the Eagles win a Super Bowl.
    s
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:25 PM, 01/30/2013
    Here's how the story will end. His employer will eventually find out somehow that he was the acid guy and fire him. Then he'll tell the world how unfair it was.
    drbob1
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:34 AM, 01/31/2013
    congratulations!
    you have the reading comprehension of a carrot.
    ekw555
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:01 AM, 01/31/2013
    priceless
    Cappy12619
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:36 PM, 01/30/2013
    dam! i hate this paper i actually read that
    stayoutofphilly


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