By JOHN E. HOOVER Sports Columnist on Aug 29, 2013, at 4:57 PM Updated on 8/30 at 1:21 AM
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Whether you don’t know much about golf, or you don’t follow Rickie Fowler, or you’re not an Oklahoma State fan — heck, even if you already have insurance — you should check out these videos.
Fowler, the distinguished former OSU golfer now making a living on the PGA Tour, is the leading man in a pair (so far) of Farmers Insurance videos making the Internet rounds.
Fowler plays “Dick Fowler, P.I.”, and in the series he’s a mustachioed golf course cop — complete with the “cherry” red light he slaps on the roof of his cart, just like in “Kojak” or “Starsky & Hutch” or “The Streets of San Francisco” — when he’s in hot pursuit of a country club criminal.
In the first, Fowler tees up a talkative offender’s cell phone and blasts it into the cup with his driver.
In the second, Fowler hand-feeds a divot back to the cretin who hit it and tried to walk away.
It’s entertaining when a well-paid professional athlete — even one who dresses for attention like Fowler — doesn’t take himself or his normally staid sport too seriously. Yes, Fowler and other athletes-turned-entertainers like Kevin Durant, James Hardin, Troy Polamalu and others get paid. But self-deprecation isn't such a bad thing in this age of look-at-me athletes.
Like him or not, Fowler is a breath of fresh air.
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