Not A Bad Article In The New York Post About How The Boys Are Taking Saturdays Back
(NY Post) – It’s called “Saturdays are for the boys,” and since June it has gone from a simple hashtag to an ethos lording over the frat boy (and slightly aging frat boy) universe.
Quite simply, it means that dudes are taking back Saturdays, which have traditionally been devoted to household chores and fulfilling family responsibilities. And they’re doing it with a drink or 15 in their hands.
Every Saturday, social media platforms are packed with acts of worship to the SAFTB religion in the form of videos and photos of hard-partying men. Plug #Saturdaysarefortheboys into Instagram, and a never-ending stream of daredevil high jinks — such as guys launching themselves into pools from roofs, hurdling beer pong tables or shotgunning beers — will materialize.
It’s become so popular that professional athletes such as Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski and Steelers star wide receiver Antonio Brown have posted snaps of themselves wearing shirts emblazoned with the slogan.
In August, the official twitter page of the Detroit Lions got in on the game, tweeting the phrase with a handful of team members posing with pride. Giants lineman Justin Pugh shared a hilarious video of his pals going wild in a hot tub and breaking a flat-screen TV with a baseball bat after proclaiming: “Saturdays are for the boys.” And a few weeks ago, Michael Phelps captioned an Instagram photo of him and his infant son Boomer with the now ubiquitous hashtag.
This summer, the hashtag was trending on Twitter for four weeks straight and recently the phrase was added to Urban Dictionary. The saying has metastasized so much, that it’s doubtful many even know of its very humble origins — a drunken tweet sent by Barstool Sports blogger John Feitelberg from a Newport, RI, bar.
Nice little read in the New York Post today about how the boys are taking back Saturdays and the origins of the whole Saturdays are for the boys movement, for those who don’t know the full story it’s in there. Nice of them to call me the “viral hit maker,” too. I’m not necessarily one for pat-on-the-back nicknames but if you guys wanna keep that one going then you’re more than welcome to. I won’t use it but you definitely can.
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