Russell Wilson Doing High Knees In The Aisle While His Teammates Were Sleeping On Their Flight To London Proves He's The Great Prankster Of Our Generation
Justin Edmonds. Getty Images.What's the greatest thing about being on a sports team? Easy answer. The pranks.
It's a long, grueling season. You spend so much time with your teammates throughout the course of it. You probably spend significantly more time on the road with your teammates than you do with your friends and family. So you need guys on the team who are going to lighten the mood. You need guys who are going to josh around and yank your chain and give out some good ol' fashioned razzing from time to time. Great pranks on the road are what separate the great teams from the mediocre. If the locker room is too up tight and guys aren't letting loose every once in a while? Well that's just too much tension to carry around for an entire season.
The thing about Russell Wilson is he seems like a guy who has watched every episode of "Impractical Jokers". He probably keeps a notebook at home full of his favorite pranks from each one. So if there's one guy who knows how to do some prankin', it's DangeRuss. And this might be his best one yet.
High knees in the aisle for 4 out of 8 hours in the air? That is fucking hilarious. Especially while the rest of the team is just trying to rest their eyes a bit and get some sleep. I'm sorry but if you don't think that's funny, then you just don't get comedy. I can just picture Sal and Joe in his ear telling him to keep stretching the whole flight. And considering how much Russell Wilson likes to play make believe, I bet he was picturing them in his ear the whole time. That little rascal. I bet the Subway commercials were just a prank, too.
Like I said, epic pranks make for an epic team. Don't count the Broncos out just yet. Russ leads the league in pranks per flight, and that could be enough to turn this season around for Denver.
Sidenote: He did warn everybody he cares a lot about flying.