Someone needs to step in and defend Cody Rhodes’ awful, terrible placekicking performance

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Fanatics Fest is happening this weekend in New York City, bringing together the biggest names in sports, entertainment, and sports-entertainment under one roof.

What Comic-Con is to nerds, Fanatics Fest is to sports nerds.

But amid all the fun, WWE superstar Cody Rhodes has to be a little red-faced after video of him attempting to kick a field goal has gone viral.

And no, it wasn’t because he was splitting the uprights from 50 yards.

Alright, that was not stellar, but not everyone is cut out for place-kicking.

I also get the sense that he had no idea he’d be trying to boot pigskins until he walked by the booth and got peer-pressured into it.

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So, I think everyone goofing on the American Nightmare needs to take a good hard look in the mirror, because I guarantee most of us couldn’t have done any better.

For reasons I can’t understand, placekicking seems to be the thing in sports that most people think they could jump out on the field and do.

Send a 99 mph fastball into the opposite field bleachers? Probably not.

Stop an Alexander Ovechkin one-timer from the right circle? Hell no.

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Kick a field goal from 25 yards out? Not only do they think they can do it, but a lot of people are also like, “Bro, I’ll do it from 45.”

But you won’t. It’s really hard to do, as evidenced by a pretty solid athlete in Cody Rhodes looking like he just learned what football was that morning.

Unless you did a little kicking in high school, I think we’d all be leaving that Fanatics Fest fan activation saying, “Thank god I’m not a top-of-the-roster pro wrestler, so I can go about my day with no one caring that I made an ass of myself… Hey, I think that’s a Shake Shack booth over there. Nice!”

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If you’ve never tried it, you’d be praying to look as good as Cody Rhodes did. Most of us would look more like Charlie Brown getting hosed by Lucy for the thousandth time.

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So, just remember next time someone’s attempt at a Ray Finkle impression goes sideways that you might want to sit it out.

Especially if the person in question has the Cross Rhodes in their repertoire.

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