Pickleball Tough: Player Gets Shit On By A Bird In The Middle Of A Game, Still Powers Through To Finish The Match And Win Gold
Okay so first and foremost, let's just give a quick shoutout to the camera operator here who delivered one of the best shots of the year. The fact that he was able to snipe this bird right in the middle of it taking a shit just goes to show you how good these guys are at their job.
Caught mid-shit in 4k. That's just an unbelievably shot.
But now let's talk about the resiliency of Chris Haworth here. I mean we just witnessed Caleb Williams act like he got shot yesterday because he kind of sort of tweaked his hamstring in the NFL. We see MLB pitchers miss weeks because they have a bad fingernail. If an NBA player got shit on by a bird in the middle of a game, they'd miss the rest of the season. But Chris Haworth is a pickleball player, and pickleball players fight through whatever adversity is thrown their way.
It would be so easy to just call it a day and give up. But not in pickleball. Getting doused in bird shit is just another obstacle for you to overcome. You have to fight through all the other players in the bracket, you have to fight through the entire tennis community constantly trashing the game, you have to fight through your friends and family not understanding that you can actually make a living playing pickleball, and you have to fight through a bird taking a shit directly on your arm while you're just a few points away from claiming gold.
That bird is just lucky that Chris Haworth has a heart of gold and didn't decide to Randy Johnson his ass with the next serve. The PPA Tour was in Arizona this past weekend, so it would have been fitting for a bird to get unalived by a ball there.