Lord, Brother Pat Roberston is bragging about the miracles you have bestowed on him:
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds, but some say he’d be in a pretty tough spot if he tried.
The “700 Club” host’s feat of strength is recounted on the Web site of his Christian Broadcasting Network, in a posting headlined “How Pat Robertson Leg Pressed 2,000 Pounds.”
According to the CBN Web site, Robertson worked his way up to lifting a ton with the help of his physician, who is not named. The posting does not say when the lift occurred, but a CBN spokeswoman released photos to The Associated Press that she said showed Robertson lifting 2,000 pounds in 2003, when Robertson was 73. He is now 76.
The Web posting said two men loaded the leg-press machine with 2,000 pounds “and then let it down on Mr. Robertson, who pushed it up one rep and let it go back down again.” The Web site said several people witnessed the event, and shows video of Robertson leg-pressing what appears to be 1,000 pounds.
Clay Travis of CBS SportsLine.com called the 2,000-pound assertion impossible in a column this week, writing that Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds, but some say he’d be in a pretty tough spot if he tried.
ADVERTISEMENTThe “700 Club” host’s feat of strength is recounted on the Web site of his Christian Broadcasting Network, in a posting headlined “How Pat Robertson Leg Pressed 2,000 Pounds.”
According to the CBN Web site, Robertson worked his way up to lifting a ton with the help of his physician, who is not named. The posting does not say when the lift occurred, but a CBN spokeswoman released photos to The Associated Press that she said showed Robertson lifting 2,000 pounds in 2003, when Robertson was 73. He is now 76.
The Web posting said two men loaded the leg-press machine with 2,000 pounds “and then let it down on Mr. Robertson, who pushed it up one rep and let it go back down again.” The Web site said several people witnessed the event, and shows video of Robertson leg-pressing what appears to be 1,000 pounds.
Clay Travis of CBS SportsLine.com called the 2,000-pound assertion impossible in a column this week, writing that the leg-press record for football players at Florida State University is 665 pounds less..
Lord, I join with Brother Buck in praying that you will bring Brother Pat home now. He’s gone off his leash.
No, Lord, don’t call this weirdo home, please, we need his strange humor and off-the-wall zaniness.
Pat is so full of shit his eyes are brown!
I offered up my own take on Pat’s “accomplishment” on my new, non-Garnet Donkey blog (which you can see by clicking my name. How convienient!). Basically, I believe that Pat should take on a real accomplishment, like eating 2,000 hot dogs in an hour. Leg presses are for babies.
I saw a video of Pat Robertson lifting a supposed 1000 lbs or so. I couldn’t continue watching so I don’t know what he got up to at the end. The fawning reporter and Pat Robertson playing to her sickened me. I did notice that the press was at an angle of 45 degrees or less. This would reduce the effective weight by the sine of the angle if you recall your trigonometry right. Hence he is lifting approximately 70% of the weight or less if the angle is 45 degrees. A 30 degree angle would correspond to 50% of the actual weight on the machine and less as the angle decreases. No doubt his legs are quite strong but exaggerating your accomplishment is disingenious at the least or dishonest at the worst or perhaps he just doesn’t understand?