The DUMBEST HALFTIME SHOW in ESPN Monday Night Football HISTORY | Patriots @ Vikings (2006)
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- During halftime of a 2006 NFL Monday Night Football Game on ESPN between the New England Patriots and Minnesota Vikings, for some reason, ESPN thought it would be a good idea to have a mascot race featuring their personalities. The show was a disaster; fans booed, the reviews were scathing, and the show never happened again. This is the story behind the Monday Night Football disaster
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You have to understand something. The first thing ESPN covers is not sports. The first thing ESPN covers is ESPN.
And social justice.
@@CTubeMan you could just as easily turned the channel to Fox News
@@donaldpaluga I’m sure most did.
Back then, they actually DID cover sports. Now, they just want attention from anyone
The halftime show received worse ratings than if Steve Young had stood there & spiked the ball to the ground for duration of the halftime show & no other footage was shown.
The funniest thing to me about this race is that a Steve Young mascot won this race in Minnesota, considering the fact one of the signature highlights of the actual Steve Young is a game-winning run against...the Vikings.
I can do you one better.....the Chris Berman mascot looked more like Al Michaels (aka the previous MNF commentator for the last 20 seasons prior to this) than it did Boomer. How does one get that so wrong? lol
I was thinking it was Al Michaels until later in the video.
@@djohns808 Hell I did too at first lol
@@ajk You might be on to something. Now I'm imagining they were gonna pull this stunt months in advance, but when Al left, they were just like, "Welp. I guess it looks vaguely like Chris Berman, so we'll just go with it".
Edit: Yes, I am aware he was traded and didn't just leave. The point is he was no longer employed with ESPN/ABC.
@@hypoallo3 I didn't even think of that, but you might be right.....it'd make more sense than them being THAT off on the depiction at least.
I think it’s also a strong possibility that a lot of the reason for the boos is that three of the former players depicted (Young, Irvin, and Theismann) played for three of the most hated teams in the NFC if you don’t pull for that team.
It was also in Minnesota, where those players were responsible for several of the Vikings' biggest heartbreaks.
For you maybe. A lo mejor eres fan of the buccaneers.
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Why is this relevant?
Fred Gaudelli produced NBC’s broadcast of the first regular season game in JerryWorld. He said that before the game he got a letter from someone in the NFL saying they were happy that NBC was covering the game and not ESPN. The letter said, and I paraphrase, “With NBC it will be all about the Cowboys and the NFL. With ESPN it’s all about ESPN.” This “race” proved that person right, as did the re-opening of the Superdome earlier in the season. That night ESPN needed rotator cuff surgery after patting themselves on the back so much.
Pretty sure he made a video about that, he just hasn't been able to plug it yet...lol
ESPN should’ve just spiked the halftime show into the ground.
One other reason ratings for "NFL Monday Night Football" fell when the series was moved to ESPN was this:
Through 2005, the NFL considered the Monday night series to be the league's premiere TV package.
When the Monday night games moved from ABC to ESPN and the Sunday night games moved from ESPN to NBC, the league began considering the Sunday night games as the league's top TV package, especially as late season games could be moved from Sunday afternoon to Sunday night to insure the best matchups were shown to the entire country in prime-time instead of regionally on Sunday afternoon.
And for the past decade (2011-21), NBC's "NFL Sunday Night Football" has been the most popular series on television.
Which begs the question-how was MNF ratings in 06 compared to SNF ratings in 05?
@@donaldpaluga The 2005 last MNF season on ABC, and 2006 first year on NBC were basically the same(averaging about 16 million viewers).
I always feel bad for the cheerleaders who have to stand there and smile and act excited at events like this.
After the game, they were probably talking about what a pile of crock that was, and how they had to endure this with a smile, when they really wanted to grimace instead.
Do you wish you were as pretty as them?
They get paid to do so lol you dont feel bad a plumber has to touch human sht do you?
It could have been worse, JG9
ESPN could have Up With People as the Halftime act
Dear God, NO!! 😱
I want to air the next episode of Blues Clues on Adult Swim. That would make an amazing April fools joke.
Maybe Steve could return and do some more adult humor
If they were going to do something this dumb, might as well have had the real life Steven Young, Tony Kornheiser, Joe Thiesman, Michael Irvin and Tom Jackson race.
Now that could've been epic
@@cygnustsp yes it would’ve, even if it isn’t the best idea it would’ve been light years better than mascots
11:37 Quoth Davey Boy Smith: "He fell flat on his ass! He fell flat on his fookin' ass!"
Those who saw that moment in time will know. :)
I'm shocked that somebody made that masterful reference.
And you know why he did it? Because he was bizarre! (to quote you, those who saw that moment in time will know lol)
THAT RACE WAS BOWLING SHOE UGLY, BAH GAWD!-JR
He wasn't even there. It was Owen.
When you talked about how this didn’t work at appealing to kids,
I thought it would be because the Mascot costumes themselves were a bit creepy,
But as someone who lives on the West Coast,
I didn’t take into account those living in the Central and Eastern Time zones.
They could make a slasher film with these mascots, very scary creatures.
With regards to "Michael Irvin" Vikings fans were booing him because they remembered the Herschel Walker trade to the Vikings--and how the Cowboys managed to get 3 Super Bowls and become one of the best teams of the 1990s out of what they got from Minnesota in exchange for Walker...
I think you can sum it up more as "None of these guys represent the Minnesota Vikings". And also general "Dallas Cowboys hating".
6:02 One thing that I found shocking... the characters were run by people from the stands. They didn't even hire people who are used to running with these mascot heads like the Presidents Races... but AVERAGE PEOPLE. No wonder why it stunk... no one knew what they were doing save maybe the Steve Young mascot... but even that person lost Steve's head.
Maybe if they hired professionals who have done this before... and maybe if this was a West Coast game where the average kid who may have liked this silliness might be up. 7 PM might be OK. But yea... this stunk.
I wonder if there is a warehouse somewhere that has those heads in them.
10:20 "What are kids doing at this time?...
...
THEY'RE SLEEPING!"
Well, they're awake now. :D
To be fair, the Vikings were 1-1 on the day. They lost the game, but their fans won the admiration of outsiders who were glad to have been spoken for on their feelings on the event.
I’m 6 minutes in and you still haven’t gotten to the halftime show….
How could anyone possibly think this was a good idea...?
I think someone at ESPN just looked at what baseball teams do for races and thought for Halloween…”Let’s do that and dress people up as our Monday night football crew in the spirit of Halloween!”
@@JWex-jy7sk That’s probably right. Although the Brewers had been doing sausage races for a while by then, the Nationals’ Presidents Race debuted just a few months before, on July 21, 2006. So I have to think this was their own Halloween answer to that. (And it ended up being a vastly inferior version.)
That's the problem. THEY WEREN'T THINKING!!!
Even the announcer sounded like he didn't want to be there
This was another example of ESPN's collective egofest. The commentators were marketed and allowed to believe they were bigger than the subject at hand.
11:02 "That's Like Airing The Newest Episode Of Blue's Clues On [adult swim]."
Me: Or Airing An Episode Of The Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Anime On TNT.
I remember seeing this on TV and I genuinely thought I had a stroke
To be fair, the fake heads were impressive. Like, Disneyland good.
Except for the fact that they couldn't stay on.
Somebody signed off on this. I wonder if they lost their job?
If not, they should have.
@@nicoleknight9412 totally agree! Lol!!
Also, this was the night before halloween, one of those aforementioned special occasions. I don't know about you but when I was a kid, my parents made me go to bed earlier the day before a late night so I could stay up late and not lose too much sleep. So, as unlikely as it was for children to be up at 10 on a regular day, it's even less likely than that
the Steve Young mascot was wearing a shockingly realistic Steve Young facial expression. so props to that, and literally nothing else regarding this event
This as bad as if the qb spikes the ball on every single, though this is far worse
Those Mascots are creepy as hell!!!
If they really wanted to do this thing they should’ve just used the normal NFL team mascots
But now I’m wondering who were the people in those creepy ventriloquist looking mascot suits???
Aliens from mars.😆
We'll probably never know, but I bet they felt like total jackasses out there.
Having Ragnar the Viking against Pat Patriot would have made better sense, but make the race more like Mario Kart or Wipeout in order to be funny.
Mascot races as the halftime for MNF? That's stupid. I agree it could've worked if they would've done this prior to the game but not at halftime.
Loved this video--This was a disaster of a halftime show. You were so right that this halftime show violated a cardinal rule of everything in life, "know your audience". This show appealed to no one. Great job reporting this, finding the video footage, and providing a lot of good humor in the way you told the story. Outstanding video.
Whoever gave the ok for this must have been high as a kite
I am going to sue this channel to get me to a doctor to undo the cringe pucker my face did...Kidding man, I love all of your deeper than deep dives, keep it up.
Uh, someone want to inform JG9 that there's literally three other time zones from coast to coast, including one where it would be 7:00 P.M.
The point about it "not being able to reach the target audience" kind of falls flat when you realize there were plenty of kids awake to try and appeal to. I'm not saying it did, just that it's a really bad point to try and take the "well kids weren't awake" route when that's just plain not true.
Any kids under 10 who were up watching this probably had nightmares that night from the big heads.
I got wet dreams from watching the mascot some of them are pretty hot.😆
How many kids under age ten were up on a school night? You would be surprised!
Young kids up at that hour would have probably been watching WWE Raw instead
@@daveporter0217 and if you think they didn't, I'VE GOT TWO WORDS FOR YOU!
Me watching the video: show the race goddamit
Those heads are nightmare inducing.
I think the word "participate" would've worked better than "compete", because you wouldn't have to explain how you're using the word.
They did this for Sunday night baseball in 2019, it was a relay with the presidents from the Nationals’ presidents race.
Maybe in some states, Halloween is a state holiday and kids have off school.
Really in what states I mean I don't think they are any states that do that but maybe I am wrong.
Only if it were a teacher's work day.
And you thought those "Sausage Races" they had during the 7th inning stretch at Milwaukee Brewers home games was nightmare fuel. 😰
That was Vikings PXP man Paul Allen introducing the "racers". I doubt he would have volunteered to do this
I wonder what PA's reaction was to this...
@@hankarmas Probably the same as the Vikings losing to the Cardinals on the final play of their 2003 season
@@mjwatts1983 So one big old NO!!!
I thought it was one of the best halftime shows of all time.
I was 27 years old in 2006. And yet, I don’t remember it.
I don't remember much from the early 2000's I was too busy smoking weed with my friends.
Saw the tweet and was wicked excited for the vid!
As always you do a great job putting together these videos. And all the points you make are valid and you provide support to back it up. And I'm not going to argue that this was a very silly idea. But sometimes you go over the top with the analysis. You make this as if this is one of the biggest atrocities ever to be put on TV. One could argue that the stupidity of this idea carries with it a curiosity factor that makes a stunt like this worth a shot. Heck I almost walk away from the TV during halftime shows but had I been watching this I might have stayed and watch just to see if it were to be a debacle. I'm all for trying almost any idea however stupid at least once. It's only when someone repeats a bad idea that I take them to task to the level you did here.
The girl playing Tirico…. Espn should have made her take it off and got somebody else after the first time she took the head off when the cameras were on them. That’s the biggest smh moment of all this
They did this to try and appeal to kids. But what they did was insult the viewers' intelligence.
If they wanted to appeal to kids in that timeslot, they needed to do this much later in the regular season, when kids could actually stay up late.
Why didn't they at least strap their heads to their torsos with a harness? Did they not know it was a very active mascot get-up?
Nothing was thought through lol
these look like the Burger King Creepy Monarch but with espn personalities
Did Joe Theissman’s mascot run with a limp?
That's a good one but also kind of mean but also good.
Not funny.
I only wrote that because I remember watching this live and making that same joke to my friends. Everybody was like “come on, the real Joe Theissman can’t run!” People were allowed to make jokes back then though. It was a different time.
ISWYDT
@@nicoleknight9412 because #CANCELCULTURE!!!!!
Ever consider talking about the NFL-Pro Wrestling cross overs? Wrestlemania 2 Battle Royal, Wrestlemania XI Main Event, Reggie White vs Steve McMichael in WCW, Ben Roethlisberger and Steeler O'Line lining up against Big Show in WWE?
In that intro before the commercial break, Tirico sounds like he's 2 seconds away from putting a gun in his mouth. The PA announcer is only slightly more enthused.
Berman mascot looks more like Al Michaels
Theisman looks like Dick Vitale
Steve Young stumbles his way into the end zone for the win… huh, not shocked by that result
Anyone else get really happy when jaguar gator gets kinda pissed off?
14:51
The moment you all came for
i didnt "came" for anything you damn coomer
Wonder what happened to those fantastic oversized masks.
Also, "... which is worse than if he did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play" (heard at 14:50) is becoming one of your signature lines. :)
They should do this for every game.... every week.
Only add TH-cam personalities....
Like... JaguarGator.... Mikemikerphone... Brandon Perna..... Heh.....
:P :P
Never heard of this. Glad I wasn't able to watch any MNF games in 2006.
That's ESPN for ya.
Wow, some things are eternal like a T Brady, statue-like, throwing to wide open receivers
Well the FACT is that when you have 2 teams such as the New England Patriots the Minnesota Vikings who COMBINED are WORSE than a 39.6 and should just SPIKE the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play, they don't DESERVE a DECENT halftime show.
Monday Night FootBRUH
12:02 Berman looks like Al Michaels
Did an intern at The Worldwide Leader approve this ish?!?
Is it bad that I initially thought the Mike Tirico costume was supposed to be Stephen A Smith?
I thought this was going to be about the time Nickelback performed.
Thank god they didn't think of using a Mel kieper mascot, the real thing is bad enough
He would have shown tremendous agility.
Well it was certainly scary alright...
This mascot race is absolutely cursed.
Just reminding you that in order for this to happen, someone had to agree to wear those costumes. Ngl, those costumes look very awkward and uncomfortable. Creepy, too.
Paul Allen sounds so excited to read those introductions. Not
It looks like a dumb ESPN inside joke gone wrong.
I popped hard when you mentioned the Brewers sausage race first. I was at one of the first ones when they had actual mascots. It used to be something they did on the scoreboard. But I remember being at a game where they still had it on the scoreboard. But then the live sausages suddenly busted out of left field, then ran the final leg of the race.
Call me a homer, but the Brewers don't get enough credit for what they've contributed to American sports culture.
I love your channel very, very much, but must disagree here. I thought it was fun and hilarious. Work and sometimes family is serious, but football for me is fun and entertainment and seeing Mike Tirico crash and burn, was hilarious to me. Keep up the great work!
Duh... for someone who is in media you know the halftime show is to keep people watching the halftime commercials!!!!!
14:49 for our favorite Official JaguarGator9 catchphrase
One thing that makes it slightly less horrible is that there might have been young kids watching on the West Coast
Wish you would cover buddy Ryan punching Kevin gilbride 1993. After Oilers blows the lead against the bills
The Punch occurred in the final game of the 1993 season, two weeks before Montana Magic defeated them in the divisional round and effectively killed the Oilers in Houston
I love your channel, but I disagree with your take, I watched this live and I personally loved it, as a fan, I always love when people take risks, like for example Abe Lincoln made a risk by going to theater without proper security
This kind of thing is done in baseball where mascots run the bases maybe they thought the same thing would work in football .
One of the football players should’ve come out of the locker room and smashed one of those clowns while they were out there racing. Now that would’ve been good television!
How have u never seen PTI?
I didn’t want to be cute with yesterday’s video about the Vikings the next year because of the subject matter. But I just want to be clear, Brad Childress was the coach of the Vikings?
yee it was his first season they went 6-10. hi ctube how's the day going
@@brix1094fuckhandles Doing good, just got back from the zoo. How’s your day been?
@@CTubeMan it was a chill day played some Pokemon rom hacks. what zoo you go to?
why didn't they put logo's on the helmets?
I actually like mascots. They're funny and they're like live action cartoon characters. If they had used these mascots in another way, something good could've come out of this.
West coast kids could probably see it though they'd likely chose bed time.
I feel all the 2021 halftime shows were trash
Having Chris Berman not even review the current game but Sunday's games like the internet doesn't exist was terrible
Just looking at the feet of the mascots and the ones who were inside the costume trying to hold their head so that it doesn't fall off...
Yeah you know this was a disaster waiting to happen.
I don't know man, I bet there's plenty of stoners out there that would love to watch Blue's Clues on Adult Swim.
Here's another idea for a video:
While the NFL usually never fkexes a Sunday afternoon game to Monday night, it did happen once because the home team's stadium was going to have to be used on a Sunday for the seventh and deciding game of baseball's World Series. The football game was moved to Monday night.
That game got shown on the ABC-TV affiliates in the two cities whose local teams were playing; every other ABC station got the originally scheduled Monday night game.
I think that actually happened twice--1987 and 1997.
The event was ok. But the timing was terrible. Pregame=yes
Halftime=no
at least put a former vikings player on there to engage the crowd somewhat
I agree with you! This halftime show was so stupid!
11:02🤣
People that hate it so much are scared. Like clowns.
6:09 It's actually kind of funny instead of stupid
Even worse than the Muppets Mock Draft?
Or the Muppets 'appearing' on Holey Moley?