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Les Snead has run the Los Angeles Rams with a “f–k them draft picks” perspective over the course of his tenure as basic supervisor.
Now a Tremendous Bowl champion, Snead is absolutely embracing the meme.
Kara Snead, his spouse, provided a glimpse on the shirt her husband was carrying for Wednesday’s Tremendous Bowl parade:
The meme is a play on the well-known Michael Jordan “f–k them youngsters” meme. In keeping with memelore, Chris Paul guess Jordan that if he missed three photographs in an around-the-world taking pictures contest, youngsters at a youth basketball camp would obtain free Jordans if MJ misplaced. His Airness proceeded to knock down jumper after jumper, to the dismay of the youngsters in attendance, birthing certainly one of our most reliably humorous memes of this century.
The overarching sentiment has since metamorphized into a number of totally different memes, sometimes depicting a serious-looking black-and-white picture of an individual with a white-lettered caption saying “f–k them ______.”
In Snead’s case, the reply was draft picks.
The Rams GM has traded away choose after choose throughout his 10-year tenure; the franchise has not picked within the first spherical since 2016 and will not have a first-round choose till not less than 2024. Whereas the decision-making on a few of these trades could be referred to as into query, Snead hit a house run in buying and selling a pair of first-round alternatives for Jalen Ramsey and one other pair for Matthew Stafford.