Anything with Charlie Steiner (the Steiner Beanie Baby!), Bill Bradley trying to discuss the tax code with Rich and Stu, Grant Hill playing the piano in the lobby, and Dan Patrick’s post game “lockerroom” interview.
Also, though it wasn’t SportsCenter, when Espnnews (or was it ESPN2), they did a series of commercials promoting it.
Patrick says “Olberman told you it was HIS idea(the new network)? That’s a joke! That’s funny.”
Cut to Olberman in his bath robe. “I did. I’m incredibly bright.”
My old fave was Roger Clemens at the copier.
There’s a new one I’ve only seen a couple of times, and I didn’t get it the first time. Two guys at the water cooler in the office. One is trying to tell the other (a Sports Center anchor) to calm down and stay focused. A baseball ump walks up, like to a conference on the mound. “Okay, guys, let’s get back to work.”
The other great thing about those commercials is how they have mascots and cheerleaders etc just hanging around in the background as if they are always there, as if it is perfectly normal to have a guy in an oversized orange costume walking down the hall.
Not a sportscenter commercial, but still a good one. Back when they were doing the “Bristol U” commercials for their college football pregame show, and Berman is the instructor. A female student raises her hand:
Student: “This is probably a stupid question, but…”
Berman (cutting her off): “There are no stupid questions, just stupid people that ask questions.”
I find myself using (or at least thinking) that phrase a bit more often then is probably healthy.
I love the Sportscenter commercials cause they always have Big Red, Western Kentucky U’s mascot in them.
He had a great one where he couldn’t figure out which bathroom to go in.
And he got hurt in the natural turf one.
My favorite was one where the ESPN technicians in the control room were puzzled over the broadcast repeatedly cutting out. Cut to outside where one of the newscasters is giving golf advice to another, who is chipping balls into a satellite dish. The best was his line describing the ideal club grip, something like: “The grip is like holding a bird. Gentle enough so you don’t hurt it, but not so loose it flies away.”
I was going to mention the Turf injuries one. I dressed up as the Marquis de Sod for Halloween that year. Great stuff.
Also all the incedental mascot sightings always give me a laugh.
zamboniracer, I don’t recall seeing that one, but just reading that made me LOL.
One of my recent faves is the one about ESPN Deportes. “We had to give up a few of our anchors in the expansion draft.” Cut to set: (I don’t speak Spanish so…spanish introducing…) “John Anderson” Slow turn, stupid grin: “Hola!”
Cracks me up every time. The deer in the headlights look he’s got is so priceless.
I like the one with the spelling bee champ, sitting next to one of the anchors who’s working on his computer. The anchor asks him to spell Pujols, so the kid starts asking all the typical spelling bee questions (Can I have the language of origin? Can you please use it in a sentence? “Pujols homered to win the game.”, etc) By the time, he’s ready to spell it, the anchor’s already found it online. Great stuff…
Hands-down, my favorite is the one where it starts with a guy and a girl on the couch, kissing and talking baby talk to one another.
As it slowly pans out, we see that the girl is wearing a Michigan sweatshirt and the guy is wearing an Ohio State sweatshirt.
As they continue to talk baby talk and kiss, the accouncer says “Without sports, this wouldn’t be disgusting.”
This reminds me of the one where they demote one of their announcers to the “minor leagues” to help him get his game back.
Cut to the announcer sitting at a folding table next to an elementary school kid. The announcer’s giving the “highlights,” and the kid just stares at him. After he finishes, the kid says, “do you even GO to this school?”
There was one with a slumber party. All women in PJ’s. Martina Hingis and Melissa Stark were in it. I can’t remember who else.
Whatever happened to Melissa Stark?