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New England Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins returned from the IR for the AFC Championship game over the weekend and brought a fresh performative bit with him: the bottle-clinking taunt from the 1979 film The Warriors. Hollins was actually the Pats’ leading receiver in the game with two catches for 51 yards.
The 32 year old Mack Hollins — who had 46 catches for 550 yards and two touchdowns in 15 regular season games in his first season with New England — has made a name for himself in recent years for being performatively eccentric, as he’ll often show up to NFL stadiums barefoot, shirtless or wearing a costume, while also having strong opinions on matters such as soup and cats. Its peak “Millenial quirk chungus” behavior, except it’s coming from an NFL wide receiver and not a mechanical engineer on Survivor.
The bottle-clinking taunt from The Warriors that New England Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins has been doing are actually the actions of the losers and villains
His latest shtick, however, appears to be a misguided one, as it may be spelling doom for the Pats in the Super Bowl.
Mack Hollins: “WARRIORS, COME OUT TO PLAY” pic.twitter.com/yppfN33uRM
— Ari Alexander (@AriA1exander) January 25, 2026
Mack Hollins had 1 final message last night after Patriots won AFC Championship.
Patriots are definition of road warriors. 1st team ever to go 9-0 on the road. https://t.co/hx8AoWFzJC pic.twitter.com/mIuOs8jvFa
— Cameron Wolfe (@CameronWolfe) January 26, 2026
Essentially, Hollins ripping off the whole glass bottles bit from The Warriors suggests that he hasn’t actually seen the movie, because it’s done by Luther, the leader of the Rogues who eventually lose to the protagonists of the film, the titular Warriors gang.
This is actually the actions of the rival gang in the movie. The ones who lose to the Warriors https://t.co/rKhQpsBWwb
— ThatsGoodSports (@BrandonPerna) January 26, 2026
People forget what happened to Mack Hollins in The Warriors. #Seahawks12 #SeahawksHouse #SuperBowlLX https://t.co/sJ2yg0pBpm pic.twitter.com/4ws11JxWNt
— 🃏 ¡sʇɐԀ ʅʅoɹꓕ 🃏 (@TrollPats) January 26, 2026
“You can’t do this stuff as a 32 year old wide receiver who has never even accumulated 700 yards in a single season,” one NFL fan complained.
“Recency bias maybe but Mack is doing an incredible job of being the most unlikable dork with Sean Payton on the opposite sideline,” a seconded added after seeing the video.
“This attention seeking behavior will cease if folks stop putting a camera on him,” a third suggested.
“He on my own team and I hate him,” an apparent Patriots fan chimed in.
Hollins and the Patriots head into Super Bowl LX as 3.5-point underdogs against the Seattle Seahawks, which will kick off from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on Sunday, February 8.