History ShoutOut / UrinatingTree

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTJyph2SAhM "The Los Angeles Chargers: Professional Football's Diamond Dogs"]] is chock-full of references to ''Franchise/MetalGear'', portraying the players on the Chargers as everything from [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Genome soldiers with regressive genes]] all the way up to the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Diamond Dogs]] as [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker soldiers without a border]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvpDYsbt9i4 "Congrats, Nationals!"]] has the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Washington Nationals]] stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop where they constantly lose in the National League Division Series, complete with [[Film/GroundhogDay Phil Connors' alarm clock going off at 6 am to the sound of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe"]]. He then uses the same clip in "This Week In Sportsball: NFL Week 11" as the Washington Redskins blow a 15-point lead against the Saints with less than three minutes left in regulation then lose in overtime.

** Go ahead and try finding one of his videos that doesn't have a sound effect from the iconic ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' franchise, particularly the "Mario hitting head on unbreakable block", "Coin", and "1-up" sound effects from the original game (less often, the "Yoshi spitting out a Koopa shell" sound effect from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''). You'd be hard-pressed to do so.

* He described a horrific pass interference call against the Browns (the opponent actually committed the pass interference), by saying [[RedLetterMedia "Don't ask questions, just make offense and get excited for more offense."]]

** Occasionally, when something goes awry at the end of a sporting event, he would play the ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'' taunt "You played two hours to die like ''this''?"

** Two exceptions were Chicago Bears and Washington Football Team. Thanks to making playoffs with records at or below .500 win percentage, they instead got depicted as successful Impostors, with their victory screen using red background and a DroneOfDread.

* For the 2020 NFL season, UT decided to depict teams that get eliminated from playoff contention as ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' players getting voted out and drifting out into space, with "There are X imposters remaining" typed out underneath (X being how many more teams need to be eliminated before all playoff spots are claimed). He gives a small hint in the first video where this happens (Week 11) by referring to the Baltimore Ravens as "highly sus" in his review of their game against the Tennessee Titans, which occurs earlier in the video, before pulling it out for the New York Jets' loss that mathematically eliminated them. Teams that actually make the playoffs are similarly treated as players who were able to defeat the impostor, using the game's blue "Victory" background and chime.

* For the 2020 NFL season, UT decided to depict teams that get eliminated from playoff contention as ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' players getting voted out and drifting out into space, with "There are X imposters remaining" typed out underneath (X being how many more teams need to be eliminated before all playoff spots are claimed). He gives a small hint in the first video where this happens (Week 11) by referring to the Baltimore Ravens as "highly sus" in his review of their game against the Tennessee Titans, which occurs earlier in the video, before pulling it out for the New York Jets' loss that mathematically eliminated them.

* For the 2020 NFL season, UT decided to depict teams that get eliminated from playoff contention as ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' players getting voted out and drifting out into space, with "There are X imposters remaining" typed out underneath (X being how many more teams need to be eliminated before all playoff spots are claimed. He gives a small hint in the first video where this happens (Week 11) by referring to Baltimore as "highly sus" in his review of their game against Tennessee, which occurs earlier in thr video.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-zBUrPWQnE "Congrats, Orioles! (2019)"]] parodies the Advertising/BigBillHells commercial parody.

** Key players who go down with injury are marked by a clip of the interface announcer from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' going "unit lost", along with a SickeningCrunch. Really bad examples may also use Pat Summerall saying "Oh no! There's a man down!" in ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHiZ1hglY8 The Washington Nationals: A Legacy of Failure]] uses the famous [[VideoGame/SegaRally "GAME OVER, YEAH!"]] to punctuate the Expos mid-season collapse in 1989. Tree also refers to the 1994 baseball players' strike, which prevented the Expos from going to the World Series in a year they were favored to win, as "The Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob."