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ON TOP OF THE LADDER — If you've ever sat through halftime of a football or basketball game (or most sporting competitions, to be honest), you've undoubtedly seen strange and/or unusual acts.
The most famous of these is arguably Red Panda, the American sensation unicyclist who balances bowls on her head while riding a gigantic apparatus. Balancing weird items is an impressive feat and can draw huge crowds while earning rave respect.
Let's add former BYU defensive tackle Hans Olsen to the list.
The former 6-foot-4, 300-pound defensive lineman was filmed by his son Tommy over Memorial Day weekend balancing a ladder AND a bicycle on his chin. But why was the big man who currently works as a radio host for the Zone Sports Network in Salt Lake City performing this death-defying feat?
Could it be for world hunger? Maybe to solve global climate change? At the very least, it had to involve a local charity ... right?
No, Olsen was just accepting a challenge from his boy Tommy, a 6-foot-4, 275-pound freshman offensive lineman at Lehi High School.
I gotta give my dad credit i bet him he couldn't balance a bike on a ladder on his chin and he did it. So i lost the bet and will be picking up dog poop for the whole summer.
— Tommy Rock Olsen (@TommyRockOlsen) May 31, 2022
I give him a hard time but this is sick and worth the bet but fetch pic.twitter.com/ArbbybUdLL
Tommy Olsen bet his dad that he couldn't balance a bike on top of a ladder on his chin, and said that if he did, he'd offer to clean up from the family's dog all summer. So Hans Olsen did what any middle America dad would do: He took his son's bet and knocked it out of the park.
"Never doubt me again, Rock!" Hans tweeted. "Have fun cleaning up poop!"
We already knew Olsen was athletic, with 12 career tackles for loss, three sacks, three pass breakups and seven fumble recoveries during his most prominent three years with the Cougars before he played briefly in the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts in 2001.
But this? This is next-level sh... errr, stuff.
Let this be a lesson to all dads everywhere.
Have you seen this?
Forget fox and the hound, bring on monkey and goat
When the goat emerges from the forest, I thought it was all alone. Then, surprise! It has a little monkey friend.
