Social media was ablaze with jokes for Commanders’ kicker Zane Gonzalez till these followers realized that the feedback had been declaring his long-standing battle with obsessive-compulsive dysfunction.
After being proven on digicam going via an unorthodox pre-kick routine throughout Sunday’s wild-card win over the Buccaneers, Gonzalez grew to become the topic of jokes on social media — and even just a few quips had been made by the NBC broadcast — after he doinked in a game-winning subject purpose within the 23-20 triumph.
NBC’s Mike Tirico chuckled that it was no time for a “fashion malfunction” because the digicam panned to Gonzalez touching his head and taking part in together with his socks.
It apparently doesn’t trouble Gonzalez anymore, however his spouse, Lizzy Gonzalez, didn’t like the following web jokes, telling trolls to “scram” in a TikTok put up.
“If anything, it makes my wife and family more upset than it does with me,” Gonzalez advised The Washington Publish. “I’m used to it. … Everybody that’s known or seen me kick has seen me do it millions of times. Being on such a big stage on Sunday night, a game-winner, it draws a little bit more attention, I’ve learned. It’s who I am, and it’s what I go through, and I, above everybody else, realize how crazy it looks doing it. I’m aware. But at the same time, you can’t help it.”
Gonzalez has needed to reply questions on his OCD for a lot of his profession after being chosen within the seventh spherical of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns.
He set a number of NCAA information whereas at Arizona State and obtained unanimous All-American Honors, and is only one of 18 kickers to have been drafted since 2017.
Gonzalez spent two years in Cleveland earlier than being shipped off to the Cardinals and finally spending a season with the Panthers.
Whereas a member of the Panthers in 2021, he was requested about his battle with OCD.
“It’s just little thoughts, little funny habits that I do,” he advised the Charlotte Observer in 2021. “Specifically, sometimes I rinse my hands before kicks … It instantly makes you just feel relieved. I don’t know why, if it’s just a placebo effect. It’s not something I love having. But it just is what it is, and I’ve learned to deal with it.”
Gonzalez was out of the league for the final three years earlier than latching onto the Commanders and kicking them to Detroit within the Divisional Spherical of the playoffs, the place they’ve a date with the Lions on Saturday.
