The NFL pregame shows are not funny, yet everyone laughs (more on that in a bit). However, every now and then, one of the terrible jokes takes its terribleness to a new dimension and becomes an absurdist gem.
One such occasion was yesterday. Discussing the 49ers-Broncos game in London, Charlie Casserly was pleased to inform James Brown—and America—that due to crowd noise restrictions at NFL games, vuvuzelas were banned from Wembley Stadium for the day. Now, instead of discussing how that sounds a lot like a made-up rule to keep vuvuzelas out of the game, Boomer Esiason and Shannon Sharpe played—blew into?—a pair of vuvuzelas for like 37 seconds. It's as if the ghost of Andy Kaufman possessed them for an all-too-brief moment.