That season, TO would always come out for warm-ups in skin tight Under Armor. There was a running joke about Andy Reid doing the same thing... Reid said he would if TO got 15 TDs that year. Luckily for the world's eyes, TO got injured for the rest of the regular season after number 14...
I always thought it would’ve been great that they cut the scene right before the second half of that sketch in the living room, hit the Monday night music and have the announcer tell us the “late breaking news” that T.O. Is out of the game tonight with a “lower body injury.”
Not the greatest teammate ever, but if you had to pick 1 WR from 1 season to be on your team, I think there’s a good case for Terrell Owens in 2004. His combination of size, speed; strength, route-running ability, and explosiveness has never really been matched. I think D.K. Metcalf could change that in the next few years though.
Let's see. We're gonna air a commercial that will alienate two fanbases, while showing softcore porn, and all on a network owned by Disney? I don't see the problem.
I remember I was a junior in high school when this happened. Desperate Housewives was huge, and the ratings for MNF that year indeed were terrible. Seeing that ad all these years later still makes me cringe.
During the parody, they also made a crack at how WWE especially wasn't the NBA, making light of the Malice at the Palace incident that had occurred just days prior.
Shows just how dumb the public audience is. There wouldn't be any reason at all to mention Walt "not being proud" if Disney Corp _wasn't_ involved. So much hand-holding....no wonder Desperate Housewives and all the other shows were such crap and basically soap operas, replaced now by cartoons and superheroes.
Absolutely. Wrestling was in its prime back then. WWF had Stone Cold, The Rock, Undertaker, DX. WCW had the NWO, Sting, the Cruiserweight division, etc. Couple that with the star QBs getting old, and the result is fewer people watching Monday Night Football.
It’s truly messed up how bad Janet Jackson was blacklisted from the music/tv industry, while Justin Timberlake shot skyward in the music industry and Hollywood.
Agreed. That's why I don't like him so much. Maybe he should be a man and...I dunno...apologize to Jackson. He's not much of a man, so don't count on it.
Janet Jackson was irrelevant when she was on that halftime show anyway, she was probably the only big name willing to have a "malfunction" to try and revive a dead career.
@@garybryant9097 why should he apologize to her? This was an agreed upon thing. You think he just ripped part of her costume off? She was wearing a freaking throwing star on her boob for God's sake.
lol yea... that was probably the source of a majority of the "racism" claims... a lot of people in the south especially back then would be offended if they just saw a white girl walking with a black boy let alone seeing any type of romantic interaction and on TV? hell I bet they were complaining before the promo was even over
Being black and having lived in both the south and northeast I can honestly say I've experienced more racism in the northeast. Like Bill Russell said "People think racism is only prevalent down south. They need to live in Boston for a week."
@@bigdawg7262 people in the south hide it better than* in the north they just don't give a fuck... (usually) very rarely does southern racism become public they usually do the talk behind your back only to other white people racism... but when obama was first elected they rented billboards just so they could put nooses around his neck not to mention i know people down south who still to this day call obama the antichrist... not biden or hillary or bill clinton only obama... there's only one reason for that
@@cptmiller132 no you’re wrong. The north is considerably more racist than the south and it’s not actually close at all. But hey keep perpetuating false stereotypes. Definitely makes you better than racists…. Never mind I mixed up “better” and “exactly the same” 😂😂🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@richardtherichard26 i lived most of my life in the deep south and now live in the north my friends and family would constantly spew racist shit in private i moved to the north and haven't heard anything and I've now lived here for 10 years and the only place where ive heard about it being more racist than the south has been in boston but massholes have always been massholes so it's no surprise there... sorry but i don't know what to tell you 🤷♂️
I agree, but at that time MNF was considered to be a family night show. DHW wasn’t. Most young kids wouldn’t be watching DHW; so to be sitting in your house with the family on the couch and suddenly have a fit, blonde woman drop her towel and suggest she needed what was between TO’s legs…yeah, not smart. Me personally, I didn’t care. Same for the super bowl earlier in the year. Only part that I took issue with is why Janet Jackson was blacklisted from the music industry while Justin Timberlake’s ratings not only soared, he got to host the super bowl again down the road.
@@sto1238 I wish lust equals bad in America. Because america has become pretty perverse and overly sexual. As for black and white, nobody cares. Maybe blacks don't like it, but white, and Hispanics don't care.
This promo was tacky, but when people put this promo ahead of Joe Theisman's lower leg being snapped in two as the worst moment in Monday Night Football history, they are engaged in shallow virtue signaling.
I mean, there's a difference--nobody went into MNF planning to show a guy destroy his leg. Not even LT. Just like Howard Cosell wasn't planning to go on the air at the beginning of a game in 1980, thinking that tonight he would break the news that John Lennon had been killed. This was pitched, scripted, approved, shot and deemed fit for broadcast. I say this as someone who watched it live and didn't think anything of it until backlash the next day.
I agree with those who say that Howard Cosell breaking the news of John Lennon's murder or Joe Theismann's career ending leg snap shouldn't be among the "worst" moments in Monday Night Football history because those moments as horrific as they were, weren't preplanned, scripted, or approved ahead of time. You can't just control what happens on live TV like you can or could with this Desperate Housewives skit with Terrell Owens.
The WORST moment? What about when they had to tell the audience that one of the most famous dudes on the planet (John Lennon) had been murdered? I guess that would be second-worst?
First.. the worst moment in MNF history is when John Lennon was killed. Second.. for Dungy to say that this intro was “racially insensitive” for merely featuring an interracial romance is itself, racially insensitive! Lastly.. 50,000 Karens actually took the time to write a letter over this?? I remember this intro and haven’t thought about it for one second since it aired till this video.
I still don't buy even 5,000 people between the phone/email/snail mail complained about it. 50,000 looks like a great number if you're a worthless government agency about to levy a fine for half a million though.
Looking at it now, that teaser for the game is rather quaint. I do think your contextualization explains perfectly why it got the backlash it did. If the Janet Jackson thing never happened this wouldn't have gotten near the controversy it did. As for the thought behind this? It actually made sense and plays in the "any publicity is good publicity" mantra but the timing of it was quite bad. BTW a note on something you said about the commentary stuff. Here's how bad Dennis Miller was, that season produced one of the better on field products for MNF in that era so he was such a turnoff that he kept people away from generally really good games. As for Kornheiser in the booth? It made some logical sense. ESPN was trying to rekindle the magic of a Howard Cosell type provocateur in the booth. It didn't quite work but it wasn't the worst idea in the world. After all, there's only ONE Howard. Great video as always.
@@richardadams4928 Witten was one of the worst color guys i've ever heard. McFarland is the kind of guy who's way better as a studio guy rather than analyzing a game from the booth...or that silly ass "Booger Mobile". The current MNF team isn't so bad though.
@@artjimeneziii8499 The irony of your comment is hilarious. I'm hoping it was made before Jan 6th.The day the whiniest, most thin-skinned Americans threw a hissy fit because their dear cult leader lost. Pot, meet kettle.
After the Super Bowl fiasco, every wannabe Pat Robertson and Tipper Gore started going through every damn thing on TV, hoping to find that nipple slip or crotch shot that would make them famous. This was their "Eureka!" moment.
💯It was tasteless, but big effin' deal. People got their panties in way too much of a wad over this (except Nicolette, who obviously wasn't wearing any panties).... I think even calling this MNF's worst moment is also ENTIRELY too prudish.
Who was the comedian who joined the MNF crew one year and once said, "I don't like to hear the words 'naked' and 'a few inches short' in the same sentence", when one quarterback ran a naked bootleg?
For more context.... Halloween night, 1994, freshman year at Texas A&M....after that Packers/Bears game I got my first ever beej after the short walk from The Tap (a bar) to my apartment from Clarissa, a great gal I met in my Psych 107 class.
Because anybody with an IQ above 75 didnt want to see soft core when they tuned in for football. For the majority of the population blood flows to all parts of our body and not just one…
@@cineMADvocate So please explain the existence of NFL cheerleaders. If sports fans don't like watching attractive women during their sporting events, then why do professional cheerleaders exist?
@@theecharmingbilly No they aren't. Professional cheerleaders are the definition of eye candy. Now if you were to say the same thing about college cheerleaders, then I would agree. But professional cheerleaders, while still good dancers, are selected because of the way that they "stack up" to their competition.
Cringey? Yes, absolutely, but the worst, and with all the buildup? A bit of hyperbole. Worst moment I can think of is either Howard Cosell announcing that John Lennon had been shot, or Joe Theismann getting his leg broken with a clear line of sight.
Having never watched 'Desperate Housewives', this intro just showed me that the entire show was garbage. I wouldn't call anything about it bad...other than the acting.
14:00 Well technically I’d think TO having a big game that night should’ve benefitted the intro... Personally I honestly kinda like the idea of parodying the other shows on the network briefly like that as an intro but this ain’t it, LOL. I don’t find it offensive or anything, it’s just stupid.
I remember seeing the Janet Jackson incident. I was at a Super Bowl watch party, and was one of the few who was watching halftime at that moment. When it happened, I thought to myself, Did I just see what I thought I saw? When I got home that night, I went onto the Internet and found no mention of anything untoward about the game. By the next morning, things had changed. 🙂
I don't really get cringe that makes me stop and feel embarrassed for all involved, but this intro did it. My wife likes Desperate Housewives, didn't suddenly want to watch football. And I didn't suddenly want to watch 40 year old women scheme and drink cocktails. Why? Why you done what you done MNF?
At the time, people were super outraged over this. I think they were really triggered at the "big bad black athlete" being with the pretty naked white woman. Also, I don't remember when, but there was similar outrage over a magazine cover with Lebron James and Gissele Bundchen. Times never change.
I don't have the data to prove it, but it seems that if someone is going to miss Sunday Night Football on ESPN to watch Desperate Housewives, the probability of the same person wanting to watch Monday Night Football would be pretty slim.
Desperate Housewives, there's a show I haven't heard referenced in almost 20 years! What a phenomenon that was for awhile. This promo would probably be criticized for not being perverted enough these days, haha. By the way, great job applying your usual amazing research and analysis skills to the field of broadcasting! Great context.
WABC-TV (channel 7) in New York City has been airing “Monday Night Football” for 35 years and it was a staple. After airing it for 35 years following the incident, “Monday Night Football” moved to ESPN during the 2004-05 season.
I remember a lot of the rating problems were due to the pitiful schedule Sunday match up were made for tv. Monday nights were an afterthought. I’ll bet the rating started to pickup when the Thursday night games began and got the crappy games so every team got scheduled a prime time game
Well, at least it wasn't Andy Reid in the towel.
Exactly.
Haha!
😂
Amen!
That season, TO would always come out for warm-ups in skin tight Under Armor. There was a running joke about Andy Reid doing the same thing... Reid said he would if TO got 15 TDs that year. Luckily for the world's eyes, TO got injured for the rest of the regular season after number 14...
"... and Donovan needs me. Philadelphia is counting on me." As an Eagles fan, my heart broke just a little reliving this
As a cowboys fan I feel you
Would have been better/funnier if T.O. had instead of saying yes said, "Sorry baby I can't, it's Monday Night Football."
Aye, instead of playing second fiddle to whatever the fuck the other thing was.
I agree
EXCELLENT !!!! RIGHT ON !!!!
That’s how the commercial should have ended. The content creators emphasized sex more than football and that was a mistake.
I always thought it would’ve been great that they cut the scene right before the second half of that sketch in the living room, hit the Monday night music and have the announcer tell us the “late breaking news” that T.O. Is out of the game tonight with a “lower body injury.”
Hey, I wouldn’t be complaining if Nicolette Sheridan flashed me.
...”in 2004”...
Meh, all you bro.
Me either...she was hot....no idea what she looks like now...but 2004 hells yeah
That was great I wish we could see it all
They had to do it 40 times before everyone was satisfied... TRUE!
Terrell Owens killed the Cowboys that night: 6 catches for 134 yards and 3 touchdowns.
It must have been a quickie.
Nicollette Sheridan will do that to a man.
Well... Go Edie, I guess
Not the greatest teammate ever, but if you had to pick 1 WR from 1 season to be on your team, I think there’s a good case for Terrell Owens in 2004.
His combination of size, speed; strength, route-running ability, and explosiveness has never really been matched.
I think D.K. Metcalf could change that in the next few years though.
@@MBBurchette Calvin Johnson fits all your descriptors and I'd take him over either.
I watched that night and, after careful thought and consideration, decided I had no objections whatsoever to this promo.
Me either. It was cringe but not offensive in anyway.
I don’t think Terrell was complaining either 🤣🤣
By your statement, you summarized perfectly John 3:19-20.
Saw it too. I’ve been a huge NFL fan since 1995 and cringe wasn’t even a thought back then, but yeah it was looking back but meh
I watched it and was repulsed. Miscegenation was illegal for a good reason.
Alternative: T.O. continues to resist her advances and leaves for the game, she pouts and turns around to find a winking Chris Berman
Or John Madden
And then we would know if ... he ... could ... go ... all ... the ... way...
@@reedermh 😂😂 Underrated LMAO
Yooo 😂😂😂
Let's see. We're gonna air a commercial that will alienate two fanbases, while showing softcore porn, and all on a network owned by Disney? I don't see the problem.
Yep....casting spells
35 years of MNF...down the toilet! And 2004 is worse year in the history of sports!!! Come on!!!!
nearly 17 years later, Terrell Sheridan is one of the most highly recruited high school seniors in the country
Dude you nailed it
🤣🤣
HAHAHAHA
niiiice.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaahhhhhaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peak TO + Peak Nicolette Sheridan = what could go wrong?
She was like 20 years past her best by date lol
The worst moment in Monday Night Football history is when Howard Cosell broke the news of John Lennon being shot and killed in New York.
I will never forget that moment watching in my dorm during my freshman year of college.
"Look at that little monkey run!"
- Howard Cosell, MNF, 1973
That's the night Yoko Ono started to fade into obscurity so we probably came out ahead on that one.
Meh , only good commie, is a dead commie.
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I remember I was a junior in high school when this happened. Desperate Housewives was huge, and the ratings for MNF that year indeed were terrible. Seeing that ad all these years later still makes me cringe.
I was sophomore in high school. Time sure does fly.
I remember when this aired. I was watching it live. I remember being like… dafuq? I was only 9 years old and still thought it was weird af
I was senior in high school. It still haunts me to this day...😮
This intro is actually really nice.
As a football fan, I might watch the show after the game.
Vince Mcmahon, Shelton Benjamin, and Trish Stratus did a parody of this on Monday night raw in wwe
it was hilarious
Shit I remember that too lmao
With all the subtle humor of a 5th grade fart joke, knowing McMahon
During the parody, they also made a crack at how WWE especially wasn't the NBA, making light of the Malice at the Palace incident that had occurred just days prior.
A portent of things to come for McMahon's XFL...😒
Wasn’t that parody the following week?
I did an audible "WHAAAAAAaat??" After I saw it. Haha wtf.
Good video JG9
Another detail you forgot: ABC was (and still is) owned by Disney.
With that in mind? No wonder they thought this was a good idea. Disney are idiots.
@@rogergoddard1234 Yah they are idiots. Not everyone can be as sharp as us youtube commenters.
He did mention that he wondered if Walt Disney would have been proud
Shows just how dumb the public audience is. There wouldn't be any reason at all to mention Walt "not being proud" if Disney Corp _wasn't_ involved. So much hand-holding....no wonder Desperate Housewives and all the other shows were such crap and basically soap operas, replaced now by cartoons and superheroes.
Is it any surprise Michael Eisner was gone in 2005?
Could you also blame the Wrestling boom of the late 90s as a reason for Monday Night Football's decline during that period?
Absolutely. Wrestling was in its prime back then. WWF had Stone Cold, The Rock, Undertaker, DX. WCW had the NWO, Sting, the Cruiserweight division, etc. Couple that with the star QBs getting old, and the result is fewer people watching Monday Night Football.
Monday Night Wars between Raw and Nitro really killed MNF
That's a great point. Me and my brothers watched nothing but wrestling on Monday. Flipped back and forth between WWF and WCW.
Absolutely. Wrestling was creating new stars and both WCW and WWF were pushing each other to be better weekly. They definitely played a role.
That's absurd. RAW and Nitro aired on cable, NFL on ABC aired on free TV.
I'm a sucker for clicking 20 min videos that could be adequately done in 4
Same
It was absolutely painful 😣
@@shruggingatlas78 fr
Exactly he took forever to get to the point
Aren’t we all?
ABC needs Monday Night Football back. Dancing with the C-Listers needs to go.
They're going to get it back.
People are waaaaaaaaaay too prudish. But yeah, not the brightest idea.
America's puritan roots still effect us today. Crazy we can't completely shake it after hundreds of yeas.
You are just a heathen. But this will be confirmed for you in time.
This was so funny holy hell
It’s truly messed up how bad Janet Jackson was blacklisted from the music/tv industry, while Justin Timberlake shot skyward in the music industry and Hollywood.
Agreed. That's why I don't like him so much. Maybe he should be a man and...I dunno...apologize to Jackson.
He's not much of a man, so don't count on it.
Janet Jackson was irrelevant when she was on that halftime show anyway, she was probably the only big name willing to have a "malfunction" to try and revive a dead career.
@@ScamNewton77A dubious conclusion...
Janet will never be irrelevant to her true fans.
@@garybryant9097 why should he apologize to her? This was an agreed upon thing. You think he just ripped part of her costume off? She was wearing a freaking throwing star on her boob for God's sake.
ABC exec: "How can we get millions of TV sets simultaneously turned off in the South? I know!"
lol yea... that was probably the source of a majority of the "racism" claims... a lot of people in the south especially back then would be offended if they just saw a white girl walking with a black boy let alone seeing any type of romantic interaction and on TV? hell I bet they were complaining before the promo was even over
Being black and having lived in both the south and northeast I can honestly say I've experienced more racism in the northeast. Like Bill Russell said "People think racism is only prevalent down south. They need to live in Boston for a week."
@@bigdawg7262 people in the south hide it better than* in the north they just don't give a fuck... (usually) very rarely does southern racism become public they usually do the talk behind your back only to other white people racism... but when obama was first elected they rented billboards just so they could put nooses around his neck not to mention i know people down south who still to this day call obama the antichrist... not biden or hillary or bill clinton only obama... there's only one reason for that
@@cptmiller132 no you’re wrong. The north is considerably more racist than the south and it’s not actually close at all. But hey keep perpetuating false stereotypes. Definitely makes you better than racists…. Never mind I mixed up “better” and “exactly the same” 😂😂🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@richardtherichard26 i lived most of my life in the deep south and now live in the north my friends and family would constantly spew racist shit in private i moved to the north and haven't heard anything and I've now lived here for 10 years and the only place where ive heard about it being more racist than the south has been in boston but massholes have always been massholes so it's no surprise there... sorry but i don't know what to tell you 🤷♂️
"Worst" moment in Monday Night Football history? Anytime the Detroit Lions take the field!!
Sadly true. The joys of being a Lions fan. :(
@@CaroWolverine09 0-16?
@@brandonmorris92 Yeah you would think that would be the worst memory of being a Lions fan, but somehow we have found the way to have worst.
@@CaroWolverine09 hey don’t worry you guys got young talent
What about the time that they had to announced that Virgil Livers was taken out of the game because of a ruptured testicle, That was cringe worthy.
Imagine how empty your life must be to get upset about this.
I agree, but at that time MNF was considered to be a family night show. DHW wasn’t. Most young kids wouldn’t be watching DHW; so to be sitting in your house with the family on the couch and suddenly have a fit, blonde woman drop her towel and suggest she needed what was between TO’s legs…yeah, not smart. Me personally, I didn’t care. Same for the super bowl earlier in the year. Only part that I took issue with is why Janet Jackson was blacklisted from the music industry while Justin Timberlake’s ratings not only soared, he got to host the super bowl again down the road.
Because sex bad in America, it’s even worse when it’s between a black and white
Black and white.....Good God man, the raven 😈EVILL!!!
@@sto1238 I wish lust equals bad in America. Because america has become pretty perverse and overly sexual. As for black and white, nobody cares. Maybe blacks don't like it, but white, and Hispanics don't care.
Um...Joe Theisman's leg snapping in half when LT sacked him?
@champ voy I watched it live, too. I still cringe when I see a QB get sacked. LT was a beast! 👍✌️
And when they replayed it about 100 times…
I would rather watch Theismann break his leg ten times than do the same thing with this promo.
@@venusrose9890 The promo was cringe, but no. Theisman’s injury was horrible.
That made me physically ill when I saw that.
Keep at it with the long form videos. When you get the pacing right, they are your best content.
Bruh I skipped the entire thing just looking for the point. Ads too? Nah.
Video was perfect. Context, the sauce, and reaction was well presented.
Now we have shows like ‘Raymond Blows the Milkman’ - George Carlin
Theres a reason everybody loves Raymond
I was the milkman... good times :)
Georgeorgeorgeorge
@@joemixon834 RAYMOND ALWAYS GETS TO BLOW THE MILKMAN! (I had to lol).
I love how it’s naturally blurry enough in todays climate to just show the raw footage of it.
This promo was tacky, but when people put this promo ahead of Joe Theisman's lower leg being snapped in two as the worst moment in Monday Night Football history, they are engaged in shallow virtue signaling.
That is just a memorable football moment though, not like creating some BS for ratings and to be funny while failing
I mean, there's a difference--nobody went into MNF planning to show a guy destroy his leg. Not even LT. Just like Howard Cosell wasn't planning to go on the air at the beginning of a game in 1980, thinking that tonight he would break the news that John Lennon had been killed. This was pitched, scripted, approved, shot and deemed fit for broadcast. I say this as someone who watched it live and didn't think anything of it until backlash the next day.
@@fredleeland2464 Yeah, but they showed it multiple times each from multiple different angles. I would call that way worse.
It's virtue signaling
I agree with those who say that Howard Cosell breaking the news of John Lennon's murder or Joe Theismann's career ending leg snap shouldn't be among the "worst" moments in Monday Night Football history because those moments as horrific as they were, weren't preplanned, scripted, or approved ahead of time. You can't just control what happens on live TV like you can or could with this Desperate Housewives skit with Terrell Owens.
The WORST moment? What about when they had to tell the audience that one of the most famous dudes on the planet (John Lennon) had been murdered? I guess that would be second-worst?
MNF didn't produce his death, they just reported it
@@fredleeland2464 Or maybe... they did
@@Z64sports The Thick Plottens
The day that music died....literally.
What about Howard Cosell calling Washington Redskins Alvin Garrett a monkey?
First.. the worst moment in MNF history is when John Lennon was killed. Second.. for Dungy to say that this intro was “racially insensitive” for merely featuring an interracial romance is itself, racially insensitive!
Lastly.. 50,000 Karens actually took the time to write a letter over this?? I remember this intro and haven’t thought about it for one second since it aired till this video.
Exactly it shouldn’t be weird for a black person and a white person to be romantically involved, even in a cringe inducing act like this one
I still don't buy even 5,000 people between the phone/email/snail mail complained about it.
50,000 looks like a great number if you're a worthless government agency about to levy a fine for half a million though.
Looking at it now, that teaser for the game is rather quaint. I do think your contextualization explains perfectly why it got the backlash it did. If the Janet Jackson thing never happened this wouldn't have gotten near the controversy it did. As for the thought behind this? It actually made sense and plays in the "any publicity is good publicity" mantra but the timing of it was quite bad.
BTW a note on something you said about the commentary stuff. Here's how bad Dennis Miller was, that season produced one of the better on field products for MNF in that era so he was such a turnoff that he kept people away from generally really good games. As for Kornheiser in the booth? It made some logical sense. ESPN was trying to rekindle the magic of a Howard Cosell type provocateur in the booth. It didn't quite work but it wasn't the worst idea in the world. After all, there's only ONE Howard.
Great video as always.
I was a Dennis Miller fan before his Monday Night Football gig and wasn't after that shit show.
Oh, God, I'd forgotten all about the Kornheiser debacle, and now you bring it back to mind. I'll be sending you the bills for my PTSD therapy....
@@richardadams4928 LOL sorry. I kinda liked Kornheiser at first but it quickly went downhill.
@@SPTO He was awful, as was Miller. Didn't see Witten, but have seen McFarland and he's also terrible. Just not the same MNF any more....
@@richardadams4928 Witten was one of the worst color guys i've ever heard. McFarland is the kind of guy who's way better as a studio guy rather than analyzing a game from the booth...or that silly ass "Booger Mobile". The current MNF team isn't so bad though.
This was 2004. Could you imagine the backlash it would have today? People would want the whole network taken off the air.
Especially now with these blm and antifa. Next to millennials reaction
@@artjimeneziii8499 okay, boomer
@@99tjproyou classified me in wrong generation sweet cheeks.
@@artjimeneziii8499 The irony of your comment is hilarious. I'm hoping it was made before Jan 6th.The day the whiniest, most thin-skinned Americans threw a hissy fit because their dear cult leader lost. Pot, meet kettle.
@@artjimeneziii8499 because blm has everything to do with is video 🤦🏾♂️
I mean, its bad, tasteless for sure. But as a non-American I find hilarious the outrage that came after.
Me to
Man, as an American who was 8 then, I find the outrage afterward hilarious. It's the most pearl-clutching reaction I've seen of the early 2000's.
After the Super Bowl fiasco, every wannabe Pat Robertson and Tipper Gore started going through every damn thing on TV, hoping to find that nipple slip or crotch shot that would make them famous. This was their "Eureka!" moment.
this was the pre karen era....🙄
💯It was tasteless, but big effin' deal. People got their panties in way too much of a wad over this (except Nicolette, who obviously wasn't wearing any panties).... I think even calling this MNF's worst moment is also ENTIRELY too prudish.
Who was the comedian who joined the MNF crew one year and once said, "I don't like to hear the words 'naked' and 'a few inches short' in the same sentence", when one quarterback ran a naked bootleg?
It sounds like something Dennis Miller might have said.
Does anybody remember when Salt N’ Pepa did Whatta Man for the intro? I want to say that it was a Steelers game in 1994, but not sure.
You know it is bad when the most I can remember about this was the WWE parody.
if anyone was up to do something crazy like that, it's Terrell Owens.
I remember watching that intro live and laughing my ass off at the absurdity. And T.O. would have never made it as an actor.
For more context....
Halloween night, 1994, freshman year at Texas A&M....after that Packers/Bears game I got my first ever beej after the short walk from The Tap (a bar) to my apartment from Clarissa, a great gal I met in my Psych 107 class.
Im with ESPN the reporter was doing his job and Dickey having a frustrating season his mind was elsewhere and thought the reporter was blaming him
Had no idea this caused such an uproar. I thought it was hysterical when it aired--heck, seeing it again I still think it's pretty funny
we know the subtext here.
Matt groening refused to allow his name on that episide of the simpsons. He was against it airing
I was 9 years old when I watched this intro live and I'm 26 now
I enjoyed the intro both times
Monday night football ratings was low because of WCW Nitro and WWF Raw man them was the good old days wrestling was awesome back then
Could someone please explain Tony Dungy's remark about this being "racially insensitive"? I'm failing to make ANY connection to "race" here..
Dude your channel brings it all back. The old players, scoreboards, analysts etc. 👏👏
Collinsworth is part of the problem now. It's about time they switched up....
That's Sunday Night Football on NBC...
Are you ready for some football? A Monday night party
America, people get more upset with a woman wearing a towel hooking up with a black man than school shootings. Funny country
12:07 That Part Almost Made My Nose Bleed.
15yrs ago I laugh at people that was offended with this and 15yrs later I still laugh at it
All I remember was the WWE Parody the week after this (I think).
Yea with Trish and Shelton Benjamin
So when was the worst moment in MNF??? This seemed like a pretty awesome moment
Because anybody with an IQ above 75 didnt want to see soft core when they tuned in for football. For the majority of the population blood flows to all parts of our body and not just one…
@@cineMADvocate So please explain the existence of NFL cheerleaders. If sports fans don't like watching attractive women during their sporting events, then why do professional cheerleaders exist?
They are dancers/athletes first, they are costumed second.
@@theecharmingbilly No they aren't. Professional cheerleaders are the definition of eye candy. Now if you were to say the same thing about college cheerleaders, then I would agree. But professional cheerleaders, while still good dancers, are selected because of the way that they "stack up" to their competition.
Cringey? Yes, absolutely, but the worst, and with all the buildup? A bit of hyperbole.
Worst moment I can think of is either Howard Cosell announcing that John Lennon had been shot, or Joe Theismann getting his leg broken with a clear line of sight.
this was literally the season I fell in love with NFL hahaha
Same
This dude extended a “moment” into 17 minutes
Having never watched 'Desperate Housewives', this intro just showed me that the entire show was garbage.
I wouldn't call anything about it bad...other than the acting.
Well obviously you need to watch it because they were great.
I missed the helmet clashing intro
14:00 Well technically I’d think TO having a big game that night should’ve benefitted the intro...
Personally I honestly kinda like the idea of parodying the other shows on the network briefly like that as an intro but this ain’t it, LOL. I don’t find it offensive or anything, it’s just stupid.
All controversies of the early 2000s nfl are legally required to involve TO.
I remember seeing the Janet Jackson incident. I was at a Super Bowl watch party, and was one of the few who was watching halftime at that moment. When it happened, I thought to myself, Did I just see what I thought I saw? When I got home that night, I went onto the Internet and found no mention of anything untoward about the game. By the next morning, things had changed. 🙂
I read somewhere that Timberlake was trying to pull off one article of clothing, and pulled two by accident.
I remember WWE making fun of this on Raw. A few weeks later.
The pacing on this video is perfect
For all the snails who watch .
How about, "Worst Scripted Moment in MNF History?" John Lennon's death and Joe Theismann's broken leg are in a completely different category.
I don't really get cringe that makes me stop and feel embarrassed for all involved, but this intro did it.
My wife likes Desperate Housewives, didn't suddenly want to watch football. And I didn't suddenly want to watch 40 year old women scheme and drink cocktails. Why? Why you done what you done MNF?
One of the dumbest clichés out there is "there's no such thing as bad publicity".
Right after there was an ED advertisement…
That is literally the BEST intro ever made for football.
Best cross promotion was Run DMC and Aerosmith!
Anthrax and Public Enemy was better.
Would've been better if he had rejected her and gone to play football with the same ending
Imagine this in 2021. Cancel Culture and Gen Z would be on it like crazy.
Feminists and soyboys would lose their gender confused shit
No one would care. But good job using big words you learned from a facebook group.
@Johnny Z'Salt bruh you sound like a beta right now.
PHILADELPHIA WON THAT GAME 49-21
At the time, people were super outraged over this. I think they were really triggered at the "big bad black athlete" being with the pretty naked white woman. Also, I don't remember when, but there was similar outrage over a magazine cover with Lebron James and Gissele Bundchen. Times never change.
It's 99 percent media driven non sense. This idea that 90 million white people give a damn is hilarious.
1:42 That's my ABC affiliate, one with the best intro and theme music in all of local news television!
11:08 is what you came for.
Thanks for the marker. I thought it was kinda funny 😆 That's just how corny those types of shows are
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Why is it the worst moment? Does the idea of a virile black man and an attractive if mature unclothed blonde upset y'all that much?
Apparently it does. So idiotic though. Mistake they say; I say it’s not bad at all.
That wasn’t the worst moment. It was spectacular!!!
This was a surprisingly good report....liked!
Wrestling the Monday Night Wars! WWF VS WCW! If ya know ya know.
Janet Jackson career went straight to the top since that halftime show are you crazy lol
Well done video, but the worst moment in Monday Night Football was Howard Cosell having to announce that John Lennon had been killed
Yeah, real bummer.
/sarcasm
Never forget when WWE did a parody of this to an intro for Monday Night Raw a few weeks later with Shelton Benjamin, Trish Stratus, and Vince McMahon
It was actually a week later, and they also mentioned the Malice at the Palace
That's where Nicollette Sheridan's Career Officially Ended.
But why? It was completely in line with her character on the show
@@kwrbt2979 Didn't matter; She didn't have A character or A career after that; Good Riddance.
I don't have the data to prove it, but it seems that if someone is going to miss Sunday Night Football on ESPN to watch Desperate Housewives, the probability of the same person wanting to watch Monday Night Football would be pretty slim.
Hey Nicolette Sheridan must have really inspired T.O. he had one hell of a game that night 134 yards and 3 TD’s
IKR? Usually sex right before a game tires a player out.
I was in college at the time and it got panned before the game was over. Absolutely no one liked it and they knew how terrible it was.
Y'all dislike pretty women? Must be homosexual.
I honestly think this was way overblown and not an issue granted I was a fourteen-year-old boy when this came out
Lol yeah you don’t count. Seeing a woman even remotely naked at that age, is a good thing.
Prior to Sunday Night Football on NBC beginning in 2006, Monday Night Football on ABC was a pop-culture phenomenon for more than three decades
Now this halftime show would be stunning and brave.
Desperate Housewives, there's a show I haven't heard referenced in almost 20 years! What a phenomenon that was for awhile. This promo would probably be criticized for not being perverted enough these days, haha.
By the way, great job applying your usual amazing research and analysis skills to the field of broadcasting! Great context.
When you mentioned the new shows ABC had in 2004 why didn't you mention Lost?
I assume that's the year they did the cross promo with Tony Dorsett, John Riggins, and cast members from Lost.
Jordan, @8:50 it clearly shows that Lost was also on ABC.
Yeah as a caption. That's why I didn't originally notice it.
WABC-TV (channel 7) in New York City has been airing “Monday Night Football” for 35 years and it was a staple. After airing it for 35 years following the incident, “Monday Night Football” moved to ESPN during the 2004-05 season.
They need to take Monday night football off espn and bring it to abc again and for the love of god get some decent play callers.
I thought the worse moment in Monday Night Football was the Fail Mary game back in 2012
MNF had nothing to do with that though, that was officials
Total miss... that would be funny on a tv show but not for an intro. That’s exactly how I like to start my football experience with🤣
10:49 _” __#Exposed__ to both programs”_ 😏 *I see someone lettered in Word Play in high school.*
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Don't know how this is rascist or sexist. But it sure is cringey.
Yeah, I never understood where Dungy was going with that point. Sexist, pfffft! No doubt. Certain feminazis' heads would explode if this aired today.
I appreciate you being one of the very few here who have some sense 👏👏👏
I remember a lot of the rating problems were due to the pitiful schedule Sunday match up were made for tv. Monday nights were an afterthought. I’ll bet the rating started to pickup when the Thursday night games began and got the crappy games so every team got scheduled a prime time game