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Florida man tells cops he thought playing basketball naked would ‘enhance his skill level’ (tr)
Fox News ^ | May 14, 2019 | Greg Norman

Posted on 05/14/2019 7:50:36 AM PDT by EdnaMode

This method of training to become a better basketball player is a slam dunk – for landing in jail.

Jordon Anderson, a 29-year-old Florida resident, was arrested Sunday after police allegedly found him shooting hoops in the nude at an Orlando-area park.

“Jordan stated he was working on his basketball skills and he feels playing naked enhances his skill level,” reads a Longwood Police Department arrest report obtained by The Smoking Gun.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: anderson; florida; floridaman; jordonanderson
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Went to google news, typed in "Florida man" and found this among other crazy Florida Man stories. :P
1 posted on 05/14/2019 7:50:36 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Well, he’s right; it will enhance his skill level..............on a gay basketball team..................


2 posted on 05/14/2019 7:51:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: EdnaMode

I’ll bet he dribbles before he shoots.


3 posted on 05/14/2019 7:55:45 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: EdnaMode

“Basketball Jones.....I got a Basketball Jones.......”


4 posted on 05/14/2019 7:57:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

Never California Man?

New York Man?

Texas Man?

What’s up?


5 posted on 05/14/2019 8:00:29 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: EdnaMode

Kramer: “There’s nothing holding me in place. I’m flipping, I’m flopping”.

“Jordon Anderson, a 29-year-old Florida resident”. New meaning to ‘Air Jordan’


6 posted on 05/14/2019 8:00:34 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: EdnaMode

So he only plays for the skins team?


7 posted on 05/14/2019 8:00:45 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Paladin2

I live here - the reason is: people in Florida are nuts...


8 posted on 05/14/2019 8:02:30 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Elites reflexively exempt themselves from the ravages of their own policies." - nathanbedford)
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To: EdnaMode

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2016/08/04/a-brief-history-of-olympic-nudity-from-ancient-greece-to-espn/#600ba9ab5e30

The story goes that the Homeric athletes in The Iliad and the first ancient Olympians in 776 BCE originally wore loincloths to compete in. It was only later that a runner named Orsippus (or Orhippus) from the city of Megara decided to go naked, probably at the fifteenth Olympiad of 720 BCE in order to win the one-stade race (NB: a stade was the length of a stadium, which was often around 185 meters).

The 5th c. BCE historian Thucydides suggests that this shift to nude athletic competition perhaps happened a bit later, closer to his own time. To him, athletic nudity was a show of civility in the face of the barbarism displayed by the Persian enemies to the East of Greece.

Ancient Persians traditionally thought it against decorum to appear in the buff, and thus Greek nudity was an affront to their social mores. It was a symbol of Greekness at that time first associated with Spartans and then with many other Greek city states. It was said that even Spartan women worked out in the nude.


9 posted on 05/14/2019 8:02:35 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: EdnaMode

Were drugs involved?


10 posted on 05/14/2019 8:03:30 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: EdnaMode

Anthony Weiner has renewed interest in basketball...


11 posted on 05/14/2019 8:06:09 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: EdnaMode

“Florida Man” be ballin’.


12 posted on 05/14/2019 8:08:27 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: EdnaMode

State law dictates how much crime detail cops can release:

Florida is the one US state where those laws are really loose.

That’s why it always seems that kooky criminals are in FLORIDA.


13 posted on 05/14/2019 8:11:55 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: EdnaMode
His depth perception may need some work too.


14 posted on 05/14/2019 8:12:30 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: EdnaMode

Midnight Naked Basketball?
Wasn’t that a Bill Clinton program?


15 posted on 05/14/2019 8:13:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EdnaMode

Sounds like a bath salt high situation.


16 posted on 05/14/2019 8:15:15 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: EdnaMode

Might be a way to improve WBA attendance.


17 posted on 05/14/2019 8:18:13 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: GOPJ

No man is an island, no man is an island, he’s a peninsula....


18 posted on 05/14/2019 8:22:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

In the case of Florida, it’s a peninsula shaped like a Pee Pee.

Looks like we’re pissing on Cuba.


19 posted on 05/14/2019 8:24:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

Hey, coach says you gotts wear a jock.


20 posted on 05/14/2019 8:24:53 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#Dregs #DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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