We need to talk about His Airness and Fed. Or Michael Jordan and Roger Federer—either or—but this bromance hasn't gone on long enough. Indeed, where has it been all our lives? Perhaps the Swiss Master was too long smitten by his patented Tiger Woods bromance that went gently into the good night after the golfer's scandalacious extracurricular activities.
But both titans of sport have sets of twins now—"I need two pairs," Fed apparently prayed to the Lord—and, speaking of pairs, they've linked up lately to tout Federer's new shoe. It's a fun "collab" (Jordan's words), even if their shared designer is "a pain in the ass" (MJ again). More on that here:
Note to those who might seek to buddy up to Jordan: Federer doesn't really care for that, and certainly not when an opponent, in this case the soon-to-be-vanquished Marinko Matosevic, interrupts his schedule service-game beatdown to call out MJ in the stands and say, "I just wanna be like Mike." Tuesday night marked Jordan's first visit to the U.S. Open in New York, and the (thoroughly one-sided) exchange went down like this:
I mean, Fed even chuckled at length about turning his foe's "out" shot into a dead-ball tweener that struck Matosevic on his backside. It was as if to say "Never again! This is my house, and my pal." Matosevic will probably fare even worse if he goes after another Fed crony in attendance just two seats away last night, one Anna Wintour. (Imagine that icy glare—sunglasses or not—if one were to address her from the court.)
What do you think of the Federer-Jordan pairing? Match made in maestro heaven?
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