Crying Jordan meme reaches inspired new heights at Masters
Wow, America. Just wow. We all witnessed a transcendent performance in Sunday's final Masters round, a groundbreaking moment of popular culture that future generations will look back upon with jaws agape.
We're not talking about Danny Willett -- and we're not talking about his tweeting brother.
We're talking about -- who else? -- the crying Michael Jordan meme.
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We anointed crying Jordan our real MVP of 2015, but he's been even busier in 2016. The Arizona Cardinals used him to admit defeat in the NFL playoffs. North Carolina was brutalized by an epidemic of crying Jordans after losing the NCAA championship game last week. There's even a fake trailer for a fake crying Jordan documentary.
So prolific is crying Jordan these days that an army of zombie thinkpieces has arisen, alternately defending its honor and demanding its official retirement. But the bit of magic the Masters blessed us with Sunday is beyond all debate. It is a unifying meme.
Jordan Spieth was in control of the Masters until Sunday's 12th hole. Then he quadruple bogeyed. The center could not hold; things fell apart. The 12th hole is essentially where he lost the tournament to Willett.
Now, see, the thing about the 12th hole is that's it has a really tough layout. Let's get an overhead look at what Spieth was dealing with Sunday.
Oh.
Oh ...
Oh, my.
Jimmy Donofrio, take a bow. Like Dylan going electric at Newport, you just done changed the game.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.