“Taco Bell Skills Challenge” entirely misleading
The NBA posted a press release yesterday about its annual “Taco Bell Skills Challenge,” which will feature Derrick Rose, Brandon Jennings, Steve Nash and Deron Williams:
The Taco Bell Skills Challenge was introduced at NBA All-Star 2003 in Atlanta and features four players competing in a two-round timed “obstacle course” consisting of dribbling, passing and shooting stations. All players must observe basic NBA ball-handling rules while completing the course.
Wait a second — those aren’t Taco Bell skills at all. Those are just basketball skills. If they wanted to make it a Taco Bell/basketball hybrid skills challenge, that might be cool, because it’d be fun to watch Steve Nash try to dribble while eating a taco. But as it stands, calling this ball-handling contest a “Taco Bell Skills Challenge” is entirely misleading.
I would like to challenge these four men — and any other comers — to an actual Taco Bell skills competition. The events could include Fire Sauce application, cleanly eating, efficient drive-thru ordering, and spork manipulation. As a tiebreaker, we could each order nachos and see who could best ration the amount of cheese per tortilla chip.
Dammit, now I want Taco Bell.
