Sports fans grow their knowledge through years of watching games. The more you watch, the better you understand the sport.
As we get older, we lose touch with younger generations and their trends. We’ve all seen parents confused by slang or fashion choices their kids make.
One trend from young people made its way into major sports. The 6-7 phenomenon.
College basketball coaches told players that hitting free throws to reach 67 points would get crowd reactions. NFL players used touchdown celebrations with the alternating palms-up 6-7 gesture. Whether you understood it or not, the 6-7 trend was everywhere online.
ESPN’s First Draft featured a video package this week that captured the trend in a way football fans would recognize.
ESPN joins the 6-7 conversation
Mike Greenberg opened ESPN’s First Draft with a 20-second segment teasing their post-Combine discussion during the 50-minute episode.
The video package showed Field Yates asking Mel Kiper Jr. if he knew what 6-7 meant. Kiper didn’t have a clue.
What followed was a montage of Kiper naturally saying “6-7” while discussing draft prospects. Any teenager would’ve been proud.
My pal @MelKiperESPN had never heard of the term 6-7
It turns out he’s unintentionally a big 6-7 guy though pic.twitter.com/KFU0OOJL8h
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) February 18, 2026
Yates apologized to viewers for Kiper being possibly the only person unaware of the 6-7 trend. While the rest of their episode followed the usual format, that first minute had something special.
Kiper still didn’t understand what Yates was apologizing for.
Yates ended the package by saying, “what is the meaning of 6-7, because Mel, no one actually knows what it means.” Here’s the thing though. My teenager confirms that nobody really knows what 6-7 means.
The kids have also declared the 6-7 era officially over.
