This is one of the greatest things I have ever witnessed take place within the sports mediasphere. Chicago sporstwriter Rick Morrissey is definitely a man of his word. Three years ago, Morrissey wrote that he would come back and literally eat his words — the print on which his article appeared on, complete with Noah’s goofy draft photo, dipped in salsa — if Chicago Bulls big man Joakim Noah ever turned out to be a “useful” NBA player. Well, with Noah averaging a double-double and coming off maybe his best game ever, Morrissey decided to pay the piper.

Morrissey not only ate the very print his article was published on, but he did it in front of Noah and rolling video cameras. He also wrote about the whole ordeal in a new article. I’m not a Chicagian, so I don’t know much about Morrissey. But I do know that it’s cool as hell that he held himself to his promise. Typically, sportswriters (myself included) sweep their inaccurate prognostications under the carpet. The only time you read anything about an old prediction from a sportswriter is when it comes true, and then you hear about it over and over and over again. You gotta give Morrissey a lot of props for going through with this and subjecting himself to absolute humiliation. Most sportswriters would have chickened out, but he was a good sport about the whole thing.

Check out the video of Rick Morrissey rolling up his newspaper article in salsa, then literally eating his words like they were a Chipotle burrito.