Bill Simmons has always been one of my favorite writers. I love longform content, and Bill, like myself, eschews brevity for superfluous exposition and slapdash pop culture references.
Thanks, Bill.
One of Bill’s readers coined the term “Tyson Zone.” It refers to Mike Tyson and his…antics. According to the reader (and subsequently Bill himself), you could say Mike Tyson did absolutely anything, and he would believe it. Iron Mike has been prone to extreme behavior that can neither be predicted nor explained.
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Some others candidates for the Tyson Zone could include:
- “Winning” Charlie Sheen
- Vince McMahon
- Any rapper who owns a tiger
- Any former early 2000s pop diva or Nu Metal frontman
- Most former Celebrity Apprentice contestants (I’m definitely looking at Gary Busey and Herschel Walker)
- The 1986 New York Mets
- Jim Harbaugh
- Anyone whose nickname includes a definite article (“The Nature Boy” and “The Situation” come to mind)
- Any pro athlete who refers to him/herself in the third person
Seriously, would you be shocked if I told you that Gary Busey was caught licking a cactus on the Sunset Strip?