Sometimes stories about what professional athletes like outside of sports are the best stories. Whether it’s Tom Brady’s relationship with Uggs or LeBron James’ acting career, stories about athletes outside the world of sports are usually pretty funny.

Take Carson Palmer for example. The 36-year-old has had a pretty lengthy and successful career in football. While at the University of Southern California, Palmer won the 2002 Heisman Trophy Award. Then in 2003, Palmer was the first overall pick in the NFL Draft.

Throughout his NFL career, Palmer has had a lot of success, such as being the AFC Player of the Year in 2005 or earning three Pro Bowl nods. While all of those accolades are great, not a lot of stories have come out about what Palmer is like outside of football and sports as a whole. That is, until now.

In his most recent Monday Morning Quarterback column, Peter King detailed Palmer’s love of the hit HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

“Carson Palmer loves Larry David; loves “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” (By golly, who doesn’t love that show?) Carson’s wife, Shaelynn, saw David at the game. She said her husband sometimes would come home from practice or a game all wound up and unable to go to sleep on schedule, and would sometimes use David’s show to relax him. So Shaelynn Palmer asked Larry David if she could record a greeting on her smart phone from David to her husband. David obliged. He said: ‘Hey Carson! Go to sleep, would ya!'”

If getting a personalized greeting from the main actor in one’s favorite TV show isn’t one of the best things that could happen to someone, then I don’t know what is.

Does anyone know what Roger Goodell’s favorite non-sports related show is? The Apprentice? Imagine Donald Trump recording a message for Goodell. “Hey Roger, You’re Fired.”

[Sports Illustrated]