Tennessee's Arian Foster Refuses Interview Requests Unless You Speak Pterodactyl

Clay Travis — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:15:14 EDT

Sigh. The Vols are in the process of preparing for their road game at Georgia. A game that CBS had the misfortune of selecting. At least Jonathan Crompton isn't starting at quarterback for the Vols. You get the feeling that CBS' Gary Danielson might have refused to call another game quarterbacked by Crompton. Instead the Vols are trotting out their last, best hope for salvaging the season— red-headed sophomore Nick Stephens. And their leading rusher, Arian Foster, has to have a big game. Something he hasn't done so far this season. How did Foster respond when asked to comment on the upcoming game? He responded in Pterodactyl language. "Veeeeek! Veeeeek! Veeeeek!" Foster shrieked."

Practice had just ended last week. The Tennessee starting tailback, a senior on the verge of becoming UT's all-time leading rusher, was requested for media interviews.

He had a demand: whoever interviewed him had to speak Pterodactyl, some made-up dinosaur language. No interview was conducted.

Foster and his family are featured subjects of the book and I like all of them. But this season has been so bad that every morning I wake up and tell myself, "You have a nice house and a nice wife and a nice son. They all like you. It really doesn't matter if your football team is bad." At some point I'm hoping this will take. Until then, our running back reverting to the Paleolithic era sort of provides a nice segue to our offensive schemes. Pray for me.

UT back's silence mirrors teams struggles [The Tennessean]

Arian Foster's Philosophy Store Coming to a Strip Mall Near You?

Clay Travis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:15:27 EDT

I haven't made myself watch the UT-UCLA game yet. It's sitting on my DVR. I put on the pregame last night and heard Rece Davis, Lou Holtz, and Mark May talking about how many times Arian Foster would carry the ball. Holtz and May both predicted he'd get over 150 yards. They were wrong. Arian only got 96 yards. Because he was really ineffective. And by really ineffective I mean averaged 7.4 yards a carry. For some reason he only got 13 carries. But, even still, I've been getting emails asking me about Mike "Britney Spears" Patrick's line that Foster is a philosophy major who planned to open philosophy stores upon his graduation. I didn't believe this happened. Now someone has sent me the link to the youtube clip. It's here after the jump.

Can someone please explain what a philosophy store would sell? Or is this another example of Mike Patrick going off the deep end? I just hope this philosophy store doesn't conflict with my Nihilist Express DryCleaners.

Philosophy Store [Bolder Law]

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Tennessee's Arian Foster Refuses Interview Requests Unless You Speak Pterodactyl

Arian Foster's Philosophy Store Coming to a Strip Mall Near You?