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I hope I'm able to tie all of this together.

Every now and then during the football season, Comcast SportsNet here in Philadelphia has one of their Sports Night anchors ask trivia questions to current Ealges in a segment they like to call, Earning You Wings. The other night I saw one of these interviews with WR Freddie Mitchell of 4th and 26 fame. One of the many questions he was asked was, "What does the A.C. stand for in A.C. Slater's name on SBTB?" As it turns out, he was aked this question because he is boys with Mario Lopez.

Freddie Mitchell on 4th and 26:

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So let me step back for a second to give you some background information. Freddie Mitchell is my favorite personality on the Eagles for three reasons: 1.) whenever he catches a pass, after he is tackled he stands up and does a quick pelvic thrust celebration, 2.) he's given himself nicknames like "FredEx" and "First Down Freddie", and 3.) he caught the 4th and 26 pass that kept the Eagles season alive last year in the playoffs (my favorite football play ever). Now to Mario Lopez. He of course played A.C. Slater, the most inspirational character on the most inspirational show of all time, Saved By The Bell, but you know all that. I have more about Lopez I'll get into after I'm done telling the Freddie Mitchell part of the story.

Back to the action. So Freddie hears this question as obviously understands it, but doesn't know the answer. Upon hearing this, the anchor tells Freddie that he can call Mario Lopez real quick, during the interview on televison no less to get the answer. Don't get your hopes up though because Freddie could only get Mario's voicemail. This was a major disappoint for me because two of my favorite people on earth, who I had no idea even knew each other existed, almost came together on television to answer a SBTB trivia question on a sports channel. It would've been one of my top five tv moments so far in my lifetime, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Just to let you know, Freddie eventually got the answer right but only after he was given fairly obvious clues. Just in case you don't know, the A stands for Albert, and the C for Clifford, which is weird because when we, along with AC's character, find out later in the College Years that Slater is Mexican and real last name is Sanchez I can see the Albert part making sense (Alberto) but not Clifford because what does that translate into Cliffordo? Cliffuel? Cliffordro?

The man, the myth, the Mexican:
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Now for a separate Mario Lopez story. A couple weeks ago, I came across a movie on HBOLatino called, Outta Time (I forget the Spanish name). This movie starred Mario Lopez as a Mexican college student who needs to make money for tuition because he lost his soccer scholarship at some school in San Diego thanks to a knee injury (*shameless plug* - for more injury info check out Brian Hughes's's's articles). Anyway, Mario's character winds up working for a shady scientist who has him smuggle things across the Mexican border, unkowingly, for a drugglord named Marco. As you could imagine, things go wrong and Slater has to run from both the FBI border people, and Marco's thugs who want to kill him (cause he doesn't want to do the job anymore now that he made enough money) to deliver a cooler to Marco in Mexico who is holding Slater's mom hostage. Either the plot is this confusing or my description is - I'm too confused myself right now to know for sure. Along the way Slater runs into a character played by Ali Landry and falls in love blah blah blah, and saves his mother and kills Marco. The only important part of my awful summary is that Ali Landry, Lopez's eventual real-life wife, was also in this movie. As it turns out (*OLD NEWS ALERT*) Lopez married her and then cheated on her withing the first 2 weeks of the marraige, maybe even the honeymoon thus ending his marraige and making him retarded. So this is the point I'm trying to make - AC Slater is awesome, but Mario Lopez is retarded. This realization has scarred me deepley and I may not ever recover. Cry for me.

I wouldn't have wanted a lifetime supply of Doritos either, Mario:

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One last thing, and yes, I'm sorry this has turned into a novel. When HBOLatino shows movies that are in English, like Outta Time, there are Spanish subtitles. But when the characters speak Spanish, there are English subtitles. So that's something you can think about after you digest this monster post I just served up to you. That's it, I can't write anymore. Well, one more thing.

Another guy named Mario Lopez:

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