Rico Bosco wedding threat lights up Pick Em Week 10
TLDR: On Pick Em Week 10, Rico Bosco said a coworker "knows that if he marries that girl I'm going to fuck up his wedding," and by the next morning Dave Portnoy was posting #theboscofiles.
Week 10 of Pick Em premiered just after 7pm Eastern under the title "Does Rico Bosco Have Any True Friends At Barstool?" Within half an hour, the line that answers that question was going around.
“He knows that if he marries that girl I’m going to fuck up his wedding” -Rico Bosco
It's a ridiculous thing to say out loud on a show sponsored by DraftKings, and that's why it works. The clip never makes clear who the groom is, so we won't guess. The line was enough. Dave Portnoy didn't buy that it was all a bit, either. Bosco called the scenario make believe, and Dave quote-tweeted the clip within minutes.
I'm not sure Bosco's "make believe" is actually make believe t.co/hKU6qBEbWQ
Bosco has been here before. An earlier Pick Em went out as "Rico Bosco Threatens Dave Portnoy," so threatening people is basically a recurring segment for him now. This week's version was just more specific. It also turned into the Rico-against-the-room bit the episode was named after: everybody gets points for piling on, and he's sure he has no allies left.
About an hour after the premiere, the main Barstool account posted the wedding segment with a fake-exhausted shrug. The joke is the defense: a guy can't even threaten to ruin a hypothetical wedding these days.
Guys can't even joke about ruining a coworkers hypothetical wedding anymore
Overnight it turned into a running gag. Dave clearly wanted to keep it going, and on Thursday morning he gave it a hashtag.
Then the wedding line got a second airing on Call with Jerry & Terry, the next morning's DraftKings show. The clip of it was posted as revisionist history, meaning the story was supposedly getting rewritten less than a day after Pick Em taped it.
So that's where it stands. Pick Em keeps a record, Bosco keeps adding to it, and Dave has a hashtag to file it all under. Watch Week 11 to see whether Bosco shows up with an apology, a new version of the story, or an actual plus-one.
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