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Charles Curtis

Gardner Minshew spawned so many memes (Uncle Rico!) after leading Jaguars to a win

Gardner Minshew’s popularity was already at a pretty high level before Thursday night.

But after he tossed two touchdown passes and generally looked like the starting quarterback the Jacksonville Jaguars didn’t know they had behind Nick Foles when they signed the Super Bowl winner to a four-year $88 million deal? The buzz is off the charts after he helped lead his team to their first win of 2019.

There were plenty of memes for Minshew’s father, Flint, who was so fired up to watch his son. But there were also plenty of them for Minshew himself, including a lot of comparisons to characters in Napoleon Dynamite and Dodgeball.

There’s also this perfect GIF to use in any situation:

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