Big Brain: A Fan At The US Open Final Yesterday Caught A Ball That Went Out Of The Court And Immediately Handed It To The Kid In Front Of Him
Listen, it's been a bad few weeks for fans and sports memorabilia. If you live under a rock and want to get caught up, I got you. First we had the Polish millionaire CEO who stole the signed hat from the kid at the US Open, then we had someone trying to steal something out of Jannik Sinner's bag, and recently this weekend, Philly Karen struck the internet and became the biggest story of the weekend on NFL week 1:
So yesterday, when this fella was faced with the dilemma of the century, he needed to think quick. On one hand, catching a tennis ball that is being played between two already-all-time-greats in Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner is probably way more cool than catching some Phillies home run in a blowout of the Marlins in a half empty park. Not that tennis balls really go for much on the market, but it's still a pretty cool ball that my guess has some sort of branding on it that indicates it's from the US Open anyway. But when history looks back in twenty or thirty years, that tennis ball is infinitely more valuable.
But not an ounce of flinch on this fella who clearly has a TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, or even Safari on his phone browser. I couldn't believe how quickly he handed that ball off. He's clearly well off if he's sitting in the lower bowl of the US Open Final where tickets were going for thousands a pop, so maybe he already had this scenario planned out in his head.
Some people on the internet are saying that it was his son that he handed it to, but I'd like to live in the moment for just one time and think that this man performed when the lights were the brightest. Regardless, cool moment for the kid and a viral moment for the guy who now looks way classier than any other one of those dorks that have been going viral for the wrong reasons.
P.S. The final was a banger even though they can't figure out that whole scheduling thing, but go tennis, go:
