The Rams celebrated their trade for Von Miller with an all-time GIF backfire

Someone should go make sure the Rams aren’t toying with a box of Oreos

The Los Angeles Rams agreed to one of the biggest moves of the NFL season on Monday by acquiring eight-time Pro Bowl linebacker Von Miller from the Denver Broncos for two second-day draft picks in 2022, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

The deal instantly gives one of the league’s Super Bowl favorites (+650 at Tipico Sportsbook following the trade) another brand name playmaker on defense to pair with Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey and Leonard Floyd. Los Angeles may have built one of the most fearsome units in the league. None of that is in question.

What did raise a few eyebrows, however, is how the team chose to celebrate the pending deal on social media.

 

In a tweet posted shortly after the news broke, the Rams sent out a GIF of John Malkovich as Teddy KGB, a mobster who hosts underground card games in the 1998 film “Rounders” — a nearly perfect poker movie that definitely warrants more discussion at a later date. The scene in which the GIF was clipped from shows an overconfident and pompous Teddy splashing the pot in the face of Matt Damon’s desperate Mike McDermott.

The problem — and a quick spoiler alert for those who haven’t seen the film — is that Teddy loses more than $60,000 to Mike by the end of that scene! The “all-in” call, the pot-splashing, the Oreo-eating…it all backfires as spectacularly for Teddy KGB as the accent Malkovich chose to portray him with.

This was not lost on a number of people who replied to the Rams’ tweet.

 

So congrats to the Los Angeles Rams on landing Miller and strengthening their defense for a postseason run. Hopefully it works out a lot better for them than their GIF suggests it will.

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