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"Who do you think you are? I am!"

Those 8 magical words were dropped by pro bowler Pete Weber on Feb. 26, 2012, in a fit of victorious rage afterwards he'd won his fifth Usa Open up title.

When yous read that quote, it makes piffling sense. When yous hear it out loud, it makes less sense, and it'll even cause a laughing fit. Technically, the quote has punctuation, but Weber says it like information technology doesn't. It'south a lot funnier if you write the quote in all caps and without punctuation, like it's a tweet from a weird Twitter account.

"WHO DO YOU Call back You lot ARE I AM"

The kickoff fourth dimension I saw this video, I had little context for what happened -- I knew Weber won the championship match in a bowling tournament, that he had a lot of energy in him when he won, that he dropped a "goddamn it," that he flubbed a braggadocious, nonsensical victory quote and that I couldn't stop laughing the first fourth dimension I heard "Who practice you call back you are? I am!" But it wasn't until I watched the whole event that there was actually more to love about this moment than I thought. By the grace of the Professional Bowlers Clan and their YouTube aqueduct, you tin watch the whole thing, besides:

This is what made me appreciate Pete Weber'southward finest moment even more:

1. Information technology took place during the 69th U.South. Open tournament.

Nice.

2. This was Pete Weber's risk to pass his belatedly, keen father's record.

Seven years before the effect, Dick Weber -- a Hall of Famer, a PBA founding member and Pete's begetter -- passed away. Dick had iv US Open championship titles in his career, the most any bowler has ever had until Pete tied his tape in 2007. The 2012 tournament was Pete'southward chance to both pass his begetter's tape and become the only bowler to agree five US Open championships. It puts Weber's win and famous quote in a dissimilar calorie-free, an attribute that got lost when the video first went viral.

3. Pete Weber entered the event every bit the lowest seed.

It'south of import to note this because the US Open up has a "stepladder" format, pregnant that the everyman seed has to defeat seeds No. 3 and 2 before getting to the championship match. So, the odds were pretty much stacked against Weber to begin with, although he handily shell Ryan Shafer in the get-go match. In the second friction match against Australian bowler Jason Belmonte, Weber got a crucial break when, in the 10th frame, Belmonte missed 2 pins in the terminal roll, giving Weber some elbowroom to win. The 3rd match was even closer, with Weber barely beating Mike Fagan with ane point on a final strike.

four. Pete Weber'southward theme music is Triple H's theme music.

It caught me off guard for a flake when I heard a WWE theme vocal during a bowling tournament. I didn't know if it was the PBA trying to mess with fans or if information technology was truly the vocal Weber wanted to play every time he scored a strike. And and then I noticed something in the first few minutes of the show:

That's right, he crotch chops like he's part of D-Generation X. It turns out Weber is a huge wrestling fan, and his favorite wrestler is Triple H, and when you lot call up about it, that fandom makes total sense. So much of Triple H'south personality has rubbed off on Weber, and because of that, it makes for compelling goggle box. Everyone else is prim and proper -- at least, equally much equally you can be in a bowling alley -- while Weber has seething intensity inside him, covered by sunglasses he's wearing indoors. Y'all can't aid only desire to see what he'll say or practice next when he'due south playing. His personality may be off-putting, but he'southward the reason why you lot'll keep watching bowling on television.

5. At one point, he starts getting chippy with an audition member.

It kind of makes sense why someone would go mad when they get distracted during a bowling match -- it takes patience and concentration, two qualities that I don't possess when I basin. When it happened to Weber, it was incredibly uncomfortable and confusing, because no one had any idea who he was talking to. The start case actually happened during the quaternary frame in the outset match, after Weber was struggling in the first 2 frames. He scored a strike, so looked to his left, visibly upset that someone distracted him:

From then on, it would exist near-confrontational, with Weber continuously pointing at the person, request the judges to move them if they kept distracting him and dropping hot lines similar "It's chosen sportsmanship, pal."

Interestingly enough, this confrontation played a office in his famous line because ...

six. "Who exercise you think you are? I am!" was really directed to the distracting person.

In an interview with Storm Bowling, Weber revealed why he bragged in the beginning place and what caused him to flub:

"I guess what everybody wants to know is where did I come up up with 'Who do you think you are? I am!' Well, being caught upwards in the moment of throwing the strike and beingness as excited as I was, I had a child rooting against me during the match, and he was doing information technology just loud enough for me to hear. And it kind of made me mad, and people know ... don't make me mad on Telly, 'cause I'll just become better.

"But what I actually wanted to say was 'Who do yous think you are rooting against me? I'thousand the man of this tournament!' That's what I really wanted to say, just as everybody knows, information technology's 'Who do y'all call up you are? I am!' ... which, information technology caught on! Information technology'south a worldwide catchphrase now."

It usually takes ane weird moment to overshadow everything else. We know this because nosotros live on the Internet, and nosotros treat every weird moment with a lot more than scrutiny that it probably deserves. Yeah, it was a flub, and a funny 1 at that. It's the i moment from the 2012 US Open everybody remembers the almost, earning him the No. 1 spot in ESPN's "Non Top 10" listing.

But when you take a pace dorsum, and lookout man everything that came before "Who practice you think are? I am!" it doesn't feel like a blooper. It feels perfect. Pete Weber defeated 3 guys in one night with two close wins, with Triple H'southward music blaring with every strike, with a kid trying to ruin his nighttime, on the nicest annual of the US Open up, with the loving spirit of his late father blanketing him. He earned the correct to brag, no matter how bad-mannered it came out of his mouth.

I appreciate and fear y'all, Pete Weber. You are.

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Source: https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016/2/26/11110958/bowling-video-2012-us-open-pete-weber-who-do-you-think-you-are-i-am

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