“America Needs Football”: ‘SNL’ Fumbles Cold Open With NFL Pre-Game Offensive Ahead Of AFC & NFC Championship Games
deadline.com“Without football, what are we going to talk about?” asked the NFL Today’s Nate Burleson in the pro-football thick cold open to Saturday Night Live. “I mean, does anyone have anything remotely insightful to say?” the Devon Walker-portrayed satirical version of the former Detroit Lion added. “I wished, instead of salt, the ocean was full of sugar,” responded James Brown (Kenan Thompson).
Yep. To answer that last question from Burleson/Walker in the specific: Nothing remotely insightful in tonight’s cold open for sure.
Lamenting the near end of the NFL season after this weekend, the cold open literally threw everyone and everything against the wall.
In a land speed record even for SNL, they name-dropped Taylor Swift, the final season of “dentist office” fav Blue Bloods, the Pro Bowl, the Fast & Furious franchise, those troubled Boeing 737s, CBS viewership and the decline of linear TV, America’s cultural and political divides, Yellowstone and more with a tongue-distinctly-in-cheek dollop of existential angst.
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