Meme Madness: Boulevard Regional Final

by RPT on May 7, 2009 9:30 AM CDT in Meme Madness

In the vortex of large-scale athletic emptiness until football season begins again, we're passing the days here at Rock M Nation with Meme Madness, a 32-entry, bracket style blowout to determine the best theme/inside joke RMN has to offer. The full bracket can be found here.

Today, we feature the Boulevard Regional Final.

No. 4 Party Starter vs No. 6 Handshakes
	vs
Meme USA Conf. (Basketball)		Meme 8 Conf. (Football)
Hopefully I'm not breaking any news to you when I tell you that Conan O'Brian's "Vroom Vroom Party Starter" commercial may have been the best commercial of early 2009, right alongside the Heineken beer closet commercial. Rock M Nation needed Vroom Vroom Party Starter as a meme, and the community abided. During the Kansas-Oklahoma basketball game in Norman, SleepyFloyd and I set about discussing the commercial and set forth to find an RMN connection. Enter Laurence Bowers' above the rim antics. The high-flying freshman certainly knew how to start parties at Mizzou Arena this year with dunks bordering on f*diculous. Since that fateful evening, the meme has taken off in such an amazing vertical fashion that it actually does justice to its namesake. FIRST ROUND: def. No. 5 UribeAuction's Simpsons References SWEET 16:** def. No. 8 Laffy Saffy		It may not be SIZZLING BACON ACTION, but the Missouri football team may have the most underrated touchdown celebration in America. Is it an elaborate team celebration, an individual dance, or a way to draw attention to individual success? Nope. It's a handshake. Why? Because when Mizzou gets in the endzone, it's just business, baby. The background behind the handshake was fully examined in a 2007 video loaded on YouTube, reiterating that Missouri players wanted to "act like we've been there before." As a result, the handshakes caught on around Rock M Nation, with Live Threads being littered with exclamations of "HANDSHAKES!!!" and images/GIFs of the meme after touchdowns. With Mizzou football in the midst of a big time transition going into the season, two questions about the Gabbert era remain: How the Gabbert-led offense perform? Will the offense continue the most excellent tradition of the touchdown handshake? FIRST ROUND: def. No. 3 Kimmeh! SWEET 16: def. No. 2 Brass Bonanza

No. 4 Party Starter vs No. 6 Handshakes

Meme USA Conf. (Basketball)

Meme 8 Conf. (Football)

Hopefully I'm not breaking any news to you when I tell you that Conan O'Brian's "Vroom Vroom Party Starter" commercial may have been the best commercial of early 2009, right alongside the Heineken beer closet commercial.

Rock M Nation needed Vroom Vroom Party Starter as a meme, and the community abided.

During the Kansas-Oklahoma basketball game in Norman, SleepyFloyd and I set about discussing the commercial and set forth to find an RMN connection.

Enter Laurence Bowers' above the rim antics. The high-flying freshman certainly knew how to start parties at Mizzou Arena this year with dunks bordering on f***diculous.

Since that fateful evening, the meme has taken off in such an amazing vertical fashion that it actually does justice to its namesake.

FIRST ROUND: def. No. 5 UribeAuction's Simpsons References

SWEET 16: def. No. 8 Laffy Saffy

It may not be SIZZLING BACON ACTION, but the Missouri football team may have the most underrated touchdown celebration in America.

Is it an elaborate team celebration, an individual dance, or a way to draw attention to individual success? Nope. It's a handshake. Why? Because when Mizzou gets in the endzone, it's just business, baby.

The background behind the handshake was fully examined in a 2007 video loaded on YouTube, reiterating that Missouri players wanted to "act like we've been there before."

As a result, the handshakes caught on around Rock M Nation, with Live Threads being littered with exclamations of "HANDSHAKES!!!" and images/GIFs of the meme after touchdowns.

With Mizzou football in the midst of a big time transition going into the season, two questions about the Gabbert era remain:

How the Gabbert-led offense perform?
Will the offense continue the most excellent tradition of the touchdown handshake?

FIRST ROUND: def. No. 3 Kimmeh!

SWEET 16: def. No. 2 Brass Bonanza

Poll

Meme Madness: Boulevard Regional Final... Who ya' got?

No. 4 Party Starter

54 votes

No. 6 Handshakes

78 votes

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One small error...

SWEET 16: “def.” No. 8 Laffy Saffy

Fixed.

Let's change the Constitution so that Elvis Andrus can be our supreme overlord.

by ghtd36 on May 7, 2009 10:12 AM CDT reply actions

by Big Head on May 7, 2009 2:18 PM CDT reply actions

"When he went for that ball and dived over the table, I knew what was next to come. I felt sorry for what Texas Tech had to face after that."
-- J. T. Tiller - 3/12/09

by Andy--01 on May 7, 2009 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions