Theo Riddick Broke Out a FIFA Celebration After His London TD
By Mike Cardillo
Theo Riddick, like many people under the age of 30, must spend a lot of his free time playing FIFA on his PlayStation or XBox. After the Lions back scored on a screen pass against the Falcons Sunday at Wembley Stadium he celebrated with something straight out of the widely popular soccer video game series. Aren’t video games supposed to mirror real life, not the other way around? Either way, it’s a nice little detail by Riddick considering the game was played at a stadium normally associated with soccer.
For the six or seven people who care, the dressing down celebration stemmed from something that happened during a Hull City-Manchester City match in 2009. In the previous season then-Hull manager Phil Brown brought his team out on the field at halftime to publicly dress them down after it allowed four first-half goals to Manchester City. A year later Jimmy Bullard — one of English soccer’s best characters — mimicked the finger pointing after his goal.
Eventually it wound up in FIFA … and then an NFL game played in London. Life is weird.
[H/T my friend Jared]