Never mind fond nicknames like Mr. Potatohead and The Robot -- you may now call our starting quarterback The Iron Chef.
That's right, while Joey Porter was out incurring the wrath of Shula (it can boil an egg!) and Channing Crowder was off being Idiot Channing Crowder, Chad Henne was on a brave quest to bring Miami its very own championship ring.
It was in Rachael Ray's Super Bowl Recipe Playoff III (video here), but we're not above counting that.
"My agent set it up and at first I was kind of leery about actually going," Henne said. "But I decided to go because my fiancee was like, ‘Are you kidding me? That would be so good.' They actually came to my house for a little bit and then we went up to New York to shoot the show. I don't know how I won it because I don't cook a lot."
Rachael Ray, of course, would award a title to a plate of microwaved pizza bites ("Yum-o!"), but no one told Henne or his competition, the Carolina Panther's (and Miami Hurricanes') Jon Beason and the Giants' Kareem McKenzie. Beason came on strong with pork chops parmigiana, and the only criticism guest judge Nick Lachey had for McKenzie's taco soup was that it could have been a bit thicker.
But Henne's grilled steak, potatoes, and asparagus? All-American, earning him one hideous leather home theatre chair and one fake Super Bowl ring.
"The ring was kind of nice, but I'd rather have a real Super Bowl ring," Henne reported. "Kareem had his on from two years ago with the Giants and we were all just looking at that."
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Henne said he's gotten a lot of calls from teammates angling for a meal, and that he's thinking of charging $100 a plate. Elder statesman Chad Pennington, whose right shoulder is actually a delicate risotto, said he would be pulling the seniority card.
"He’s not charging me at all. I'll get it for free."
