Father’s Day is a great time to honor the father figure in your life, and also embarrass the hell out of them. Kristen Saban Setas took this opportunity to post a video of her dad, Nick Saban, and remembering the time he did VR boxing around Christmas.
Nick Saban smiling while VR boxing feels like an AI deepfake
This is real, and it’s SPECTACULAR.
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
This is a vital piece of sports documentation. A critical discovery in our understanding of Saban. Sports anthropologists will study this like the Rosetta Stone.
Firstly: It proves the man can actually smile — which is something scientists previously believed impossible.
Second: It shows that when on his back foot, Saban will flail wildly at the air, while being terrified of a virtual boxer.
I think it was a great call by Kristen Saban Setas to hedge this with the apology on post. I like to imagine Saban protects any personal video of himself at home with a Mission Impossible style laser grid, keeping them inside a vault over a pool full of sharks.
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