[troutman]

Originally Posted by browna

Painful and repetitious enough with the pregame show on for an hour in the background. Now having to listen to Michaels and Collinsworth try and ad-lib off script for another 25 minutes is painful. They've shown the weather map 4 times in 10 minutes...basically out of ideas already. Then, of course, lets throw the panel back onto the field, with a lightning delay, with umbrellas.

SNL has a skit like this when the power went out at the Superbowl.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/12/12msuperbowl.phtml

Shannon Sharpe: Well... This is only conjecture, but if I'm out there and there's been NO power for TWENTY minutes, I start to think: "Who on this team are we gonna eat first?" The obvious choice is the punter, because he'll be the easiest to catch. But, then, if you need a punter later in the game, you don't have one because you ATE him! So...