DirecTV’s gold-loving, miniature giraffe-owning Eastern European mogul? Apparently, they should’ve just done the commercial with Alex Ovechkin.
For a profile in its November issue, GQ had Russian opulence in real life — well, at least the 25-year-old single male NHL hockey superstar version of it. And that life apparently heavily revolves around females and the constant pursuit thereof.
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Of course, take out Russian from that equation, and it’s not far from the lifestyle of plenty of young, super-rich American male athletes, who have their own ways of saying, “Boom!” every time a female passes by. They just didn’t choose to talk about it in front of a reporter.
Not that anyone is condoning that behavior, by the way.
Certainly, the GQ profile exposes what is well known — there’s a vast cultural canyon that lies between Moscow and Washington — and Ovechkin’s outsized personality is finding its way amid the different rules on both sides.
Lesson learned: Show off the rare and exotic pets before the favorite nightclubs.
