When viewers tuned in to NFL Network to watch the Thursday Night Football crew recap the Browns-Bengals game, the last person they expected to hear mentioned was Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.
And yet, that’s exactly what happened.
It was Steve Mariucci’s birthday on Wednesday, so the crew decided to troll him with a few clever gifts to remind him of his tenure as head coach of the Detroit Lions. Mariucci coached the team from 2003-05, and as such, he was gifted bobbleheads of himself and former quarterback Joey Harrington.
Mariucci’s cohorts also bought him a Brett Favre Pinheads Collectible Pin. This took the former head coach by surprise, and he didn’t really know how to respond at first. So, he decided to zing O’Reilly.
“It’s a Pinhead…Pinhead, what am I, the Bill O’Reilly show?”
Obviously, Mariucci was talking about “The O’Reilly Factor.” Will the show’s host respond to Mariucci’s jab? Only time will tell.