Today is the day without sports, so ESPN made its own sports thing: The ESPYs, an award show for sports (8 p.m. ET, ABC)! Neat! Sports fans like awards!
But while ESPN does a good job giving out conventional awards like “Sports Male Person of the Year” or “Play of the Year” or “Game of the Year,” they leave out a large part of what sports fans crave: dumb things that we share on the Internet.
With that in mind, we present the second annual Es-Bees, SB Nation’s own awards show where we hand out awards to the best Internet sports things of the past year.
Sports Animal of the Year
And the nominees are…
Football Dog
@SBNation Just happened randomly during the game. Dog came on the field and was picked up by the ref. pic.twitter.com/n4o5r04No0
— Dylan Buell (@dylanphotog) September 20, 2014
The Goose that thinks Boise State’s blue turf is a lake
GOLF RAM (who beat Golf Baboon and Golf Otter and Golf Bear and many others to win the Golf Animal subdivision to get into this category)
Ball Dog
Rally Opossum
Paul George’s First Team NBA All-Defense Dog
When ya mans want that one on one #GodSpeed
A video posted by Paul George (@ygtrece) on Oct 21, 2014 at 2:40pm PDT
And the Es-Bee for Sports Animal of the Year goes to …
GOLF RAM
It’s got a slight left-to-right break. BTW wanna ram our heads together? C’mon let’s ram heads http://t.co/qkgREMWxqn pic.twitter.com/dVSfXED5ti
— SB Nation (@SBNation) January 25, 2015
Sports Butt of the Year
And the nominees are …
Pterodactyl Butt
Horse racing butt
Fan Butt Slap
Soccer Butt Touch
Looks like a worse decision when you see Jara give Cavani a couple slaps first. #CHI #URU anyhow, 20 mins to go now. pic.twitter.com/iNWjmEPJGh
— Perfect Pass (@PerfectPass) June 25, 2015
The Butt Bowl
Angry NFL Butt
College Football Champion Butt
And the Es-Bee for Sports Butt of the Year goes to…
THE BUTT BOWL (and Butt Dad)
@seth_rosenthal Pic from today’s BUTT bowl pic.twitter.com/K9mcHxoMZz
— Chris Behan (@BehanBrah) November 30, 2014
Pony of the Year
And the nominees are …
Giannis AntetokounmPONY
Rain Delay Pony
The Hawks’ organist learning Pony for the internet
College Basketball Band Pony
Terrifying Astros Mascot Pony
And the winner is …
OF COURSE IT’S WHEN THE HAWKS ORGANIST PLAYED PONY FOR THE INTERNET
Sports Baby of the Year
And the nominees are …
Riley Curry
Andrew Hawkins’ baby
Only Hawkins fans allowed under my roof ✊. @ajgreen_18 @king_sanu_12
A video posted by Andrew Hawkins (@hawk) on Oct 21, 2014 at 7:51am PDT
Torrey Smith’s baby
This is really everyday though….he about whipped his arm out of socket…on beat and everything haha
A video posted by Torrey Smith (@torreysmithwr) on Jul 13, 2015 at 5:12pm PDT
Riley Curry’s new baby sister (extremely late entry)
A photo posted by Wardell Curry (@wardell30) on Jul 14, 2015 at 12:21pm PDT
And the Es-Bee for Sports Baby of the Year goes to …
OF COURSE IT WENT TO RILEY CURRY THIS WASN’T EVEN A CONTEST
SB Nation presents: Reporters need to shut up and not get uptight about Riley Curry
