Everyone is Talking About Detroit Lions Kicker Jake Bates For a Very Odd Reason – Here’s Why

Set aside that the Detroit Lions placekicker Jake Bates has a Cinderella story to tell. Set aside the fact Bates just set a single season scoring record with 135 points after the team's Week 17 victory of the San Francisco 49ers.

The kicker has launched a thousand memes when Monday Night Football cameras caught him in a strange stretch during the game.

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If you've not yet seen it, here's the quick video that, maybe needs a NSFW caution.

[Highlight] Lions kicker Jake Bates stretches on turf
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Since neither you (presumably) nor I kick footballs as a professional level, we can't begin to understand the conditioning needed to boot successful field goals and PAT attempts.

So we should not question his stretching regimen. But that doesn't stop online creators from finding some comedy gold in the comely seductiveness of Bates's stretching.

From comparisons to Kate Winslet's well known "paint me like one of your French girls" line to Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic to a TikToker imaging sexytime with Careless Whisper, the meme was instantly everywhere.

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Another TikToker captured the moment the video was shown on MNF from a sportsbar full of Lions fans in Los Angeles where a patron asks, "why is Jake Bates trying to seduce us right now?"

The comments can speak for themselves on on this one:

us ladies loved it

Shhh….just let it happen

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But we'll let this NFL fan have the last word on the subject:

“Stretches” on turf. I would get arrested if I was doing this in public.