Of Course ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Star Kaitlin Olson Will Be ‘College GameDay’s Guest Picker When the Ducks Are Playing
This Saturday, the Ohio State Buckeyes football team will march into Autzen Stadium to take on the unbeaten Oregon Ducks and their three-time All-American punter Cole Armstrong.
Sadly, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star and University of Oregon alumna Kaitlin Olson isn’t actually going to take the field when her Ducks take on their new conference rivals, due to her being a mother of two whose eligibility expired decades ago, but The Bird will be in Eugene to cheer on her alma mater with ESPN’s massively popular pregame show College GameDay. Tomorrow, Olson will be the Pat McAfee-hosted panel’s celebrity picker of the week, and she will cast her vote for who will win the high-octane showdown between the two powerhouse football programs in front of thousands of screaming fans.
But, really, it’s hard to imagine that Olson hasn’t already made up her mind about who she wants to see atop the Big Ten — birds of a feather flock together.
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The only uncertainty going into tomorrow’s game and, more importantly, the pregame show will be whether or not the four-plus loud, passionate and possibly drunk men who will host Olson on College GameDay will even let her speak, unlike the Paddy's Pub gang. And, for as much as ESPN has been pushing sports betting in their athletics coverage, why the hell do we not have an over/under for how many times McAfee tells Olson, “Shut up, Bird”?
Now, obviously, ESPN didn’t choose Olson for this Saturday’s College GameDay as one big bird joke (heh, Big Bird). No, it’s more likely because Olson is the only Duck who is currently starring on a hit TV show and is thus the biggest celebrity that the biggest pre-game show could appropriately pick for their trip to Eugene — her procedural High Potential continues to climb in the ratings.
However, the simple fact is that, long before she ever landed a role that had to be re-written to match her comedic prowess, Olson naturally gravitated toward a college with an aviary mascot. The only way it could have been more perfect is if Temple University’s mascot was an ostrich.
