America was enjoying a great Monday Night Football matchup between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers when all of a sudden kicker Jake Bates came out of nowhere to become a rather delightful meme.
The Lions and Niners were involved in a meaningless Week 17 shootout when ESPN showed a clip of Bates working out a knot in his leg by laying on a softball. Only you couldn't see the softball, and Bates was just kind of laying on the field making faces.
