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POSTED 8:44 a.m. EDT; UPDATED 8:55 a.m. EDT, March 25, 2007
PEYTON WAS PRETTY GOOD
Yeah, we stayed up late and watched Peyton Manning's appearance on Saturday Night Live. And, yeah, he was actually pretty good.
The highlight for us was a phony post-monolgue United Way commercial, in which Manning was playing football with a bunch of kids, drilling their bodies with passes and verbally berating them. As one member of PFT Planet pointed out, "Most of that parody wasn't a parody."
The spot also made fun not specifically of Peyton's on-field demeanor, but of the growing perception that football players are thugs. He was trying to break into an Escalade, claiming it was his vehicle until cops arrived and he took off running. And he was drinking beer with the kids, explaining to them that he would "kill a snitch."
We can't imagine that the tone and content of the segment was well received by Park Avenue. But it was very funny.
There were other moments that caught our eye. In one skit, reference was made to the birthing process of a child with Peyton's ample cranium. In another, Peyton played a Persian from the film 300, wearing a skull cap that made him look like a floor lamp sans shade. He also was shirtless at the time, and his physique conjured images not of the NFL, but of the PBA. As one member of PFT Planet observed: "Tell Manning to do some push-ups. My girlfriend just said he has the boobs of an 8-year-old boy."
There was a cheesy basketball locker room segment, featuring a perfunctory "look at the popular guy try to dance" routine that made the skit come off like a substandard high school play.
The monologue was uneventful and largely unfunny, except for the line about the old man who told Peyton that the thing that the circus and Tom Brady have in common is that they each have two more rings than him. Peyton also introduced his mom, dad, and brother Eli, making a stupid crack about the fact that his mom didn't play in the NFL. The family's eldest child, Cooper, wasn't introduced, but walked onto the fringe of the set during the closing scene with the entire cast, proving that, unlike Richie Cunningham's big brother Chuck, Cooper still exists.
There also was an unintentionally hilarious moment in one of the final sketches, in which Manning and a female cast member (we can't remember which one it was) played a married couple sitting on a porch swing and taking simultaneous swigs of coffee after each made increasingly bizarre observations. At one point, Manning said that he saw a male friend of theirs in short running shorts. Said Manning, "I think I saw his butthole."
To the trained eye, this immediately conjured memories of Manning's legal travails with former Tennessee trainer Jamie Naughtright, who claimed that Manning dropped his "naked butt and rectum" on her face while he was in school.
So, in all, we were entertained. But, like most athletes who have hosted the show, we're pretty sure that Manning's appearance was a one-shot deal.
PEYTON WAS PRETTY GOOD
Yeah, we stayed up late and watched Peyton Manning's appearance on Saturday Night Live. And, yeah, he was actually pretty good.
The highlight for us was a phony post-monolgue United Way commercial, in which Manning was playing football with a bunch of kids, drilling their bodies with passes and verbally berating them. As one member of PFT Planet pointed out, "Most of that parody wasn't a parody."
The spot also made fun not specifically of Peyton's on-field demeanor, but of the growing perception that football players are thugs. He was trying to break into an Escalade, claiming it was his vehicle until cops arrived and he took off running. And he was drinking beer with the kids, explaining to them that he would "kill a snitch."
We can't imagine that the tone and content of the segment was well received by Park Avenue. But it was very funny.
There were other moments that caught our eye. In one skit, reference was made to the birthing process of a child with Peyton's ample cranium. In another, Peyton played a Persian from the film 300, wearing a skull cap that made him look like a floor lamp sans shade. He also was shirtless at the time, and his physique conjured images not of the NFL, but of the PBA. As one member of PFT Planet observed: "Tell Manning to do some push-ups. My girlfriend just said he has the boobs of an 8-year-old boy."
There was a cheesy basketball locker room segment, featuring a perfunctory "look at the popular guy try to dance" routine that made the skit come off like a substandard high school play.
The monologue was uneventful and largely unfunny, except for the line about the old man who told Peyton that the thing that the circus and Tom Brady have in common is that they each have two more rings than him. Peyton also introduced his mom, dad, and brother Eli, making a stupid crack about the fact that his mom didn't play in the NFL. The family's eldest child, Cooper, wasn't introduced, but walked onto the fringe of the set during the closing scene with the entire cast, proving that, unlike Richie Cunningham's big brother Chuck, Cooper still exists.
There also was an unintentionally hilarious moment in one of the final sketches, in which Manning and a female cast member (we can't remember which one it was) played a married couple sitting on a porch swing and taking simultaneous swigs of coffee after each made increasingly bizarre observations. At one point, Manning said that he saw a male friend of theirs in short running shorts. Said Manning, "I think I saw his butthole."
To the trained eye, this immediately conjured memories of Manning's legal travails with former Tennessee trainer Jamie Naughtright, who claimed that Manning dropped his "naked butt and rectum" on her face while he was in school.
So, in all, we were entertained. But, like most athletes who have hosted the show, we're pretty sure that Manning's appearance was a one-shot deal.
