CNN
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Shaquille O’Neal is many issues, however you can’t say he goes again on his guarantees.
Before Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship game, O’Neal guess fellow “Inside the NBA” panelist Ernie Johnson that Johnson’s alma mater, the Georgia Bulldogs, wouldn’t beat the Texas Christian University’s Horned Frogs (TCU).
The stakes? The NBA Hall of Famer would eat frog legs stay on TV.
Unfortunately for the four-time NBA champion, the Horned Frogs have been overwhelmed emphatically 65-7, as Georgia received its second consecutive College Football Playoff championship.
And on Thursday’s TNT protection of NBA motion, it was time to pay up. Johnson – sporting a Bulldogs helmet – entered the set holding a silver platter with a canopy over it.
Underneath have been some frog legs which O’Neal duly tucked into. “I’m a man of my word,” O’Neal mentioned mid-chew.
While O’Neal appeared to be having fun with himself, the identical couldn’t be mentioned about his fellow panelists.
Kenny Smith voiced his displeasure at consuming frogs as a vegetarian. On the opposite aspect of the fence, Charles Barkley mentioned: “Frog legs are good, I’m not gonna lie.”
With meals nonetheless in between his enamel, O’Neal gave his verdict. “I just wanna let y’all know, these frog legs good. These are the best frog legs I’ve done had ever.”
As he accomplished his on-air snack, the 2000 NBA MVP mentioned what most of us have been pondering: “You didn’t think I was gonna do it, did you?”
Let’s hope, for Shaq’s sake, that the Colorado Buffaloes or the South Carolina Gamecocks make it to the College Football Playoff National Championship recreation subsequent 12 months.