FTW- Patricia Norton, the founder and CEO of the Florida Exotic Bird Sanctuary, where Zsa Zsa — an 8-year-old Catalina Macaw — calls home, saw all the Internet hate and was irate.
“To have these people say, ‘Well we thought it would fly through the stadium.’ Unbelievable that somebody would think I would put my bird at risk,” she told For The Win. “My biggest thing I have to say: How on Earth could anyone think I could have taught her the name of the pick in 30 seconds?” Apparently, that turned into people expecting Zsa Zsa to verbally deliver the pick. But Norton — who told us last week that she had been training the bird for over a month to do something cool — said Zsa Zsa was trained to hand the card with her foot to her handler Stephanie, which she did. Then, she was trained to say “Go Bucs!” when Stephanie raised her arms. But the bird might have been a little overwhelmed by all the pirates around her, or she said it and was drowned out by all the hubbub after the pick was announced. ------- Well, excuuuuuuuuse us for thinking that an exotic bird whose most enticing trait is it's ability to speak was actually going to talk when, after much ado about apparently nothing, announcing a draft pick for an NFL franchise. God forbid we assume that the animal was actually going to earn its airtime...
Now that I have put a little bit of thought into the execution of the gimmicky guest spot, I suppose it was unfair for us to expect a bird to pronounce an NFL prospect's name after 30 seconds of preparation. Unfortunately, it's simply not as unfair as misleading the general public by making them think you've got a parrot that's worthy of primetime. We might have been a little ignorant for thinking Zsa Zsa was going to rock the mic, but I blame its hype woman for writing a check that its multi-colored ass couldn't cash. After all, it's not our fault that the talent pissed its pretty little feathers when its name got called. Props don't need publicity, so Patricia Norton welcomed the expectations when she started celebritizing something that was set to sit motionless on her shoulder. From here on out, I call that bird 'B. Parrot' because she got her one shot, one opportunity and somehow let it slip through her talons. While I appreciate how true-to-form it is to oversell and under-deliver to a "sleeper team" that's napped through the last four seasons, that's how you get booed off stage. Whether it was your idea to take it or you were coerced into doing so by an owner that overrated your ability to perform for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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