Man Fulfills Promise Of 'Eating A Shoe' If Top Gun 2 Ever Came Out

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Betting against Tom Cruise is probably not such a good idea, as Polygon's Senior Entertainment Editor, Matt Patches, recently found out when he paid off a bold bet he made years ago claiming Top Gun: Maverick, this week's box office juggernaut, would never get made.

On the evening of October 26, 2010, Patches tweeted, “If Top Gun 2 happens, I will eat a shoe,” while hanging out with a friend after news of a Top Gun sequel first came out during that year. The project was originally meant for director Tony Scott, who sadly took his own life in 2012, before ultimately being revived in 2017 with confirmation that Cruise would reprise his iconic role under the direction of Joseph Kosinski, thus triggering Patches fear that he might indeed have to eat his own shoe one day.

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Now that Top Gun: Maverick has marvelled most critics, Patches took the loss with a ton of grace by deciding to turn his poorly aged tweet and turn it into a full 20-minute skit trying to figure out how “eat a shoe.” It’s worth mentioning Patches does not eat an actual shoe in this video. However, he honors the shoe-eating tradition of cinema legends like Werner Herzog and Charlie Chaplin by crafting and roughing up a shoe made of faux fruit leather while wearing equally fitting aviator sunglasses, instead of the actual and likely delicious shoe cake sent to him by Paramount.

Patches closed his video by reminding everyone that the silliness in doing dumb trivial things like eating a fake shoe is a great way to stay above water, quoting Herzog while at it. The brief clips of a fake Cruise mocking his bold words are a perfect example of that. As Patches himself puts it, betting against the work ethic of a man