BALTIMORE \u2014 \u201cKing Henry\u201d finally has the attention of \u201cThe Waterboy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baltimore Ravens star running back Derrick Henry has an offer from Adam Sandler, his favorite actor, to be cast in a movie if the five-time Pro Bowl selection rushes for 2,000 yards this season.<\/p>\n
The offer grew out of Henry’s appearance on radio personality Dan Patrick’s show this week to discuss his $30 million, two-year contract extension. <\/p>\n
Patrick told Henry he would get him in a Sandler movie if he made NFL history with a second 2,000-yard season. Two days later, Sandler made the offer himself in a video shown to Henry on the practice field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s my dawg,\u201d a wide-smiling Henry said while watching the video.<\/p>\n
Sandler, star of \u201cHappy Gilmore\u201d and the remake of \u201cThe Longest Yard\u201d along with \u201cThe Waterboy,\u201d said he was in a hotel room while filming his greeting for Henry. At one point, Sandler turned the camera to show his bulldog.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo thousand yards-plus this year not only gets you in a movie, but we\u2019ll have a nice dinner together and talk about Dan Patrick\u2019s facial hair and how hard it is for him to grow it,\u201d Sandler joked in a video posted Friday. \u201cI love ya and keep it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Adam Sandler attends the “Adam Sandler: Love You” premiere at The Plaza on Aug. 20, 2024, in New York. Credit: AP\/Charles Sykes<\/p>\n
Sandler came up during Patrick’s interview with Henry because Patrick was hearing a hoodie for the soon-to-be-released \u201cHappy Gilmore 2.\u201d Sandler had given Patrick the hoodie.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you do me a favor?\u201d Henry asked Patrick. \u201cIf you ever see him again, tell him I\u2019m a really big fan and would really love to meet him one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patrick left Sandler a voice message \u2014 and Sandler responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cDan you’re a real one!\u201d Henry later wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Henry rushed for 2,027 yards with Tennessee in 2020, when he was an All-Pro and the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year in the fifth of his eight seasons with the Titans.<\/p>\n
Henry nearly did it again as a 30-year-old in a resurgence with the Ravens last season, when he ran for 1,921 yards. Saquon Barkley of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles led the NFL with 2,005 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 \u201cKing Henry\u201d finally has the attention of \u201cThe Waterboy.\u201d Baltimore Ravens star running back Derrick Henry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,441,7,6,109,169,394,2309],"class_list":{"0":"post-110316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-ravens","16":"tag-tennessee-titans","17":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114640186580642960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}