Dolphins announcer implies ‘brotherly shove’ has alternate meaning: ‘You know what I mean?’

The “tush push,” the “brotherly shove,” whatever you want to call it. The godforsaken play is dominating NFL conversations and seemingly irking opposing announcers.

With the first half winding down in Sunday night’s Eagles-Dolphins matchup, Philadelphia found themselves at the goal line and in perfect position to use their vaunted tush push. Recognizing the situation, Dolphins radio analyst Joe Rose asked play-by-play voice Jimmy Cefalo if he thought the tush push was on tap. Cefalo, however, didn’t seem inclined to get giddy over watching Philly shove their quarterback into the end zone.

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“We’re in the city where they claim they call it the ‘brotherly shove,’” Cefalo said. “But to me, that means something else, you know what I mean?”

Nope. Definitely don’t know what you mean. Thankfully, Rose didn’t seem to know what Cefalo meant either, which he admitted after a brief awkward pause.

“Tell me what that is?” Rose asked with a chuckle. “Tell me what you’re really saying, Jim?”

But Cefalo was reluctant to explain any further. “Oh no,” he said. “I got too many friends and relatives in Philadelphia.”

Cefalo was born and raised in Pittston, PA before starring as a wide receiver at Penn State, so he probably does still have some friends and relatives in Philadelphia. As for why those friends and relatives might not want to hear him offer up an alternate meaning for the term “brotherly shove,” we’ll be left to figure that for ourselves.

I have no idea what he meant. I could surmise a couple of guesses, but it would be reckless speculation to publish any of them.

But the way Cefalo presented it, he definitely implied the meaning was too bawdy for the radio. And if it wasn’t anything too salacious for the airwaves, Cefalo probably should have just said where he was going with this joke to prevent imaginations from running wild.

The “brotherly shove” worked, by the way, with the Eagles pushing quarterback Jalen Hurts into the end zone to score a touchdown on the next play.

[Nick Piccone]