Rabonas in soccer are good and cool. Rabonas in other sports are also good and cool, but for a different reason, namely they normally result in embarrassment and memes for the attempted perpetrator of said rabona.
Rabonas in other sports are funny, basically.
The NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers found this out on Sunday when they made their poor kicker try a rabona onside kick against the Baltimore Ravens.
Steelers went for the rabona onside kick.
Reality did not exactly meet expectation. #PITvsBALhttps://t.co/BPXUdoobzj— NFL Network (@nflnetwork) November 6, 2016
Yeah, that's not gone well.
Surprise, surprise, the Bundesliga is already trolling them.
Hey @Steelers - we've got @Aubameyang7 & @douglascosta available for rabona onside kick training for Chris Boswell https://t.co/UgjgI7TATW
— Bundesliga English (@Bundesliga_EN) November 7, 2016
No one likes a showoff. The divine spirits that control the outcomes of American football are no exception.
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