In Thursday's "First Call," we check out Mike Munchak's interview date in Denver, mistaken identities for Antonio Brown in the hippo mask and a sadly tame reaction from Henrik Lundqvist after the Penguins chased him.

Rocky Mountain Munchak?

Mike Munchak has his interview date in Denver. The Broncos reportedly will take a look at him for their vacant head coaching position on Friday.

That report comes from Paul Kuharsky of 104.5 FM in Tennessee.

Mike Munchak's interview for the head coaching post with the #Broncos is Friday.

— Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) January 2, 2019

Ben Roethlisberger recently said on 93.7 FM that the one team he is really concerned about when it comes to a potential departure of Munchak is Denver. The current Steelers offensive line coach has some family ties out there.

Former Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano, Los Angeles Rams quarterbacks coach Zac Taylor, New England Patriots defensive coordinator Brian Flores and Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio are also reported candidates.

Bottom of the rabbit hole

If you didn't get enough of Antonio Brown skipping out on the Steelers and creating distractions, you got to see him singing and dancing in a hippo outfit on your television for Fox's "The Masked Singer."

Antonio Brown surprised everyone Wednesday night with his appearance a the Hippo on 'The Masked Singer'.

Because, of course that happened this week. https://t.co/qTUtWSKtgM pic.twitter.com/7AF67YVI5q

— For The Win (@ForTheWin) January 3, 2019

How much do you want to bet that A.B. loved doing that spot, until people guessed he was Odell Beckham Jr. or Allen Iverson?

I guess Brown hasn't grabbed enough headlines yet.

Here were some other guesses I saw on Twitter before anyone got to A.B.:

• Deion Sanders

• Terrell Owens

• Chris Paul

... and this one is gonna really hurt ...

• JuJu Smith-Schuster

Shhh. Don't tell Brown. He may throw a football at Ken Jeong.

That's no fun

Whenever the Penguins chase Henrik Lundqvist, I look forward to one of his classic "baby stuff" reactions.

We didn't get that last night after the Penguins blitzed the Rangers at Madison Square Garden. Lundqvist allowed six goals. Alexandar Georgiev let in one.

Henrik Lundqvist fell on his sword tonight after allowing six goals on 18 shots in the Rangers 7-2 loss against the Penguins at MSG. “Overall I thought we played a pretty good game, just the goaltending was not very good,” Lundqvist said. “It was probably my worst game.”

— Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) January 3, 2019

Then head coach David Quinn blamed himself for playing Lundqvist after two tough road games.

And David Quinn took the blame away from Lundqvist and put it on himself, saying it was a “huge mistake on my part” playing Lundqvist tonight after the two intense road games vs. Nashville and St. Louis. “Certainly is way more on me than it is on him to put him in that position.”

— Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) January 3, 2019

Pfft. That's no fun. This is the kind of Lundqvist meltdown we know and love.

Guess what time it is. IT'S 6 PAST LUNDQVIST!! pic.twitter.com/2TsRB5VfFI

— Alex Kidwell (@KidwellAlex) January 3, 2019

Yup. That's the King Henrik I remember.

First-world problems

Not gonna lie. I'd take 10 years off my life to have this problem just once.

Backboard - 1 This dude - 0pic.twitter.com/UJu1d13Zw5

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) January 3, 2019

That's Blaise Meredith. He plays Division III ball at North Central College in Illinois.

Imagine living in a world where the worst thing that happened to you was that you were too tall, fast and athletic. So you jumped up and hit your face on the backboard.

Someday, I just wanna touch the bottom of the net.

---

Copyright ©2025— Trib Total Media, LLC (TribLIVE.com)

---