"NOT My Favorite Thing, You Can Tell Dave Portnoy That" Shooter McGavin Recaps The Time He Almost Died Floating Away During A Barstool Party Monsoon
February 2020, what a time to be alive! Barstool Sports had just been bought, The Big Game between Chiefs & 49ers was about to be fought, and to celebrate it all we threw a giant party in a Miami warehouse. Everything seemed to be going great. What could go wrong?
(Other than the entire RNR11 experience… And what followed)
But after that thrilling/tantalizing 15 fight PPV with LAING vs TURMAN, the real main event began on a fog covered floor with Dante The Don running back the whole Blackout Tour music dance experience. Hot chicks grinding, pro athletes like Joe Burrow & Gardner Minshew vibing, everybody slinging back booze like was going out of style, lasers melting faces off. It was incredible.
At least for the first 6-9 minutes anyway. After that, all hell broke loose.
You see, we rented a warehouse for this party that was placed in the direct concave middle below 2 hills. Meaning if it rained, which certainly can't be common in FLORIDA, we would quickly be turning our Blackout Party into The Poseidon Adventure.
And wouldn't you know it, a monsoon decided to join the festivities before Dante could even play "No Hand Control". You truly hate to see it, especially if you were our celebrity guest, Shooter McGavin.
From what I remember, Ubers were going for $500 minimum just to travel a few miles away. And before you could even consider opting into that surge price, you simply HAD to take notice of the rain surging onto the dance floor like it was the grand ballroom of the Titanic. It was absolute chaos, and every common man for himself. No priority for women or children on the lifeboats. As Sgt. Lincoln Osiris would say, "SURVIVE."
But it wasn't all bad during that infamous storm. Thankfully someone captured that iconic clip of Shooter McGavin floating through the madness, calm as a cucumber. Kinda looked like the aquatic version of the THIS IS FINE fire flame meme. Shooter never misses even when he does. There's beauty in that.
And now 5 years later we finally have his take on what that experience was like. Spoiler alert, he didn't love it!
I'm just glad he ended up escaping out of there in one piece. Honestly not sure anyone here knew that was the case until he popped back up in 'Happy Gilmore 2'. Hopefully he's enjoying his new Gold Jacket somewhere and also willing to wear it to our next big party. They don't usually suck that hard brother! Just ask MGK and/or Megan Fox.
Maybe we can warm him back up with a Pup Punk concert first, somewhere above sea level. C'mon SHOOTAH! Give us one more shot at redemption.
It's what Grandma Gilmore would've wanted.