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TIL when bowler Peter Weber famously exclaimed "Who do you think you are I am?" after he won the 2012 US Open on ESPN, what he meant to say was "Who do you think you are rooting against me? I am the man in this tournament!" He directed it at a young heckler who would jeer him during his approach

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