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We’ve wondered for years why the National Football League doesn’t have some sort of year-end awards show. (Okay, we haven’t; we just needed a good sentence to kick off this blurb.)
And our vision is finally coming to fruition.
According to SportsBusiness Journal, the NFL is planning to produce a 90-minute television show on the Friday night before the Super Bowl. It will be set up as an awards show, and the goal will be to provide an official commencement of Super Bowl weekend.
The Super Bowl host city will also host the show, and the show will air on the same network that has the broadcast rights for the game.
SBJ reports that one of the goals would be to provide additional advertising inventory for the network, and to possibly lure movie money, since there will be an entertainment aspect to the production.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Why??????? That last thing this world needs is another award show in January/February.
It’s a sporting event. It is not Hollywood. Leave me my game and get Seacrest the heck away from it.
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April 28th, 2008 at 10:40 am
If I’ve learned nothing else from watching the Super Bowl, it’s that the NFL does a terrible job providing entertainment outside of actually playing the game of football. Each halftime show is a tawdry piece of trash that makes my 12-year-old niece cringe with embarrassment, and the pop culture reference spewed by Rich Eisen, the NFLN’s lead anchor, make me change the channel back to ESPN (before realizing that ESPN is even worse, at which point I usually either smash my thumb with a tack hammer or return to you, dear Internet).
The thought of the NFL producing an awards show is stomach churning. I can already see Reggie Bush (he won’t be playing in the 2009 Super Bowl, so he’ll be available to be a presenter) and Kim Kardashian stumbling through hack jokes from the bottom wrung screen writers, and Jeremy Shockey double-fisting drinks as he gives shout-outs to his “boys”; the phrase “bra” will be used at least 85 times by Jared Allen. “Puppy Bowl” will likely have more TV talent then the presenters the NFL trots out to hand out the awards.
I just hope there’s an episode of “Deadliest Catch” showing opposite the NFL Awards show…and that I never live in the Southwest so I will never be in the same city as this Friday Night Turd Special.
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April 28th, 2008 at 11:02 am
OH NO! MORE HYPE!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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April 28th, 2008 at 11:27 am
“And the award for Turd Watch Leader - 2008 goes to…”
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April 28th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
They must be trying to capture some of the pomp and glamor of the ESPY awards. Yuck!!
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April 28th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Florio has to post a contest for us to make up our own awards for this show. That would be hillarious!!!
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