The Best Press Conference Rant You Haven’t Seen…Yet

Andrew Passaro
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

Saturday night Mike Petke, coach of Real Salt Lake, put out an all time classic post match press conference. Real Salt Lake drew 1–1 with Sporting Kansas City (ranked 2nd in the Western conference). There were several bad calls and Petke was ejected during the match. He had some all-time classic lines, ones that are on level with “Playoffs?” by Jim Mora, “get some facts and come back and see me” by Jim Calhoun, and “I’m a man I’m 40” by Mike Gundy. Here is a link to the video

https://www.rsl.com/post/2017/07/22/mike-petke-tonights-refs?autoplay=true

Photo courtesy of http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/for-petes-sake/article163195913.html

The fact that Petke printed out two pages and had “Trey” pass them out to the press is amazing. Baller move. Do I want a shirt right now that says “Trey hand these out”? You bet your ass I do.

Other notable quotes included:

  • “He had him in a freakin’ headlock!”
  • “Do you have your radio recording devices on?”
  • “If I do not act the way I do, I can’t sleep the next four weeks.”

Not knowing which of his players committed the foul…amazing line, love the passion.

“I don’t think they do red cards for players do they Craig?…they just eject you” all-time great line.

The shot of him pointing to the first picture is already quickly becoming a meme. There’s a lot of days I can’t stand the Internet. Today is not one of those days, in fact, it’s one of those days that makes me love the internet.

I have to say, I really respect Petke for what he did. I love seeing this kind of passion from an MLS coach, in my opinion this is only good press for the league. Some of the biggest European coaches in the world give passionate press conferences, and those guys are legends for it. Happy to see the MLS have a coach like that. The refs had a bad game. He was already irritated by previous referee and disciplinary committee decisions. He stood up for his guys, made sure that his players knew he would run through a wall for them. I’d bet that a fine is coming from the MLS. But that’s not important, this is the type of moment that gets guys to rally.

Keep doing your thing Petke, eagerly awaiting those next two slides.

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