Monday Morning Football
Every Sunday night/Monday morning, Five broadcasts the Sunday Night Football game from the NFL back in the States. This week my Eagles were playing so I figured I’d stay up and check it out.
Basically, it’s a guy with a slight British accent and some former American NFL player no one’s ever heard of. They sit at a desk and recap the games of the day. It’s all very relaxed, with the host in a tee shirt and hoodie and the analyst in a button down shirt straight out of a Levi’s commercial.
Then it came to game time. Toss it to NBC? Of course not. The game was split between the London discussion, which included viewer emails and questions, and the NBC commentary. At some points, you could go a few minutes without the London fellas, but then, as John Madden would say, BOOM!, it was right back to the London crew because they had no commercials.
That’s right. No commercials. So everytime you all had a commercial in the States, I got to watch two guys vaguely discuss the game as they waited for the feed to come back.
Needless to say, I only lasted the first half. By that time it was nearing 3:30 AM, and I didn’t want to throw off my sleeping patterns much more than I already had thanks to the Phillies’ playoff run.
I miss football, I really do. But I won’t be watching much more of it here, I can tell you that.
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