{"id":10465,"date":"2014-05-29T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10465"},"modified":"2014-05-29T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T02:03:56","slug":"blake-bortles-plays-ping-pong-during-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/29\/blake-bortles-plays-ping-pong-during-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Bortles plays ping pong during interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/blakebortles.jpg\" alt=\"blakebortles\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/blakebortles.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/blakebortles-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/blakebortles-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Jacksonville Jaguars drafted Blake Bortles as the No. 3 overall pick, presumably not for his ping pong ability.<\/p>\n<p>Still should the quarterback flame out of the NFL perhaps there is hope for him in another sport. Bortles was able to give interviews while playing ping pong as evident by the video below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBortles5\">@bbortles5<\/a> multi tasking ping pong and media interviews at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23rookiepremiere&amp;src=hash\">#rookiepremiere<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eLYjHgr2pn\">https:\/\/t.co\/eLYjHgr2pn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFLPA (@NFLPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLPA\/statuses\/472158810040455168\">May 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is not the same as reading coverage while being blitzed but hey its something. One can only how former Jaguars quarterback Blaine Gabbert was at ping pong&#8230;. too soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville Jaguars drafted Blake Bortles as the No. 3 overall pick, presumably not for his ping pong ability. Still should the quarterback flame out of the NFL perhaps there is hope for him in another sport. Bortles was able to give interviews while playing ping pong as evident by the video below. .@bbortles5 multi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[639,141,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-blake-bortles","9":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}