Andrew Luck’s five-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jack Doyle was important for a few reasons. It gave the Colts a 35-28 lead in a back-and-forth game Indianapolis can’t afford to lose if it wants to keep its slim playoff hopes alive. It also marked the first time in NFL history three tight ends scored a touchdown for the same team — Doyle joined Eric Ebron and Mo Alie-Cox on Luck’s list of end zone targets in Oakland.
The Colts-Raiders announcer dropped a perfect ‘Billy Madison’ reference when Jack Doyle scored
[O’]Doyle RULES.
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But most importantly, it gave announcer Andrew Catalon to give football fans in their mid-30s the chance to harken back to a simpler time when Adam Sandler’s movies were inanely stupid and good, rather than just inanely stupid.
Seconds after the sixth-year tight end barreled into the end zone, Catalon threw it back to 1995 with a “DOYLE RULES” exclamation.
For the unsophisticated, “Doyle rules” is a reference to the ‘95 comedy classic Billy Madison, wherein an adult Adam Sandler opts to return to school — starting with Miss Lippy’s kindergarten class — in an attempt to prove himself worthy of inheriting his father’s position at the head of his family’s hotel business. How a man willing to turn his billion-dollar enterprise over to an inept son who has literally 26-ish weeks of real schooling got to be a captain of industry is never really explained, but Billy Madison is also the kind of film that actively punishes any viewer who thinks about anything for more than a few seconds.
ANYWAY, there are two antagonists in the film. One is Eric, as played by Bradley Whitford. He is arguably the only reasonable adult in the entire movie and his outrage of having the position he’s worked his whole life for yanked from his fingertips due to egregious nepotism is probably the most realistic motivation anyone in the film has to do anything. The other is the O’Doyle family, a lineup of meaty, redheaded bullies who pop up from grade to grade to harass Sandler.
And their catchphrase — pretty much their only line in the movie — is “O’Doyle rules!”
Billy Madison is currently available on VHS and laserdisc. It is best enjoyed by children under 16 years old or adults under the influence of percocet.
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