OK Monday night I am reclined back in Big Green, feet propped up in the air, the #12’S laying underneath my dangling feet, the ice cold large economy size of Mt. Dew and an assortment of my favorite nuts and snacks appropriately laid out for my enjoyment. And I am getting ready to watch the Bears, during a rare winning year, on Monday Night Football (screaming I am ready for some football!!!) and what do I get; Obama doing an imitation 2008 Presidential coming out pre-game skit! Arghhhhhhhhh! I just danced a jig because the 2004 election phonies from the Republican and Democrat parties had disappeared back into the woodwork following another open season of hate and blaming each other for the worlds problems, the end of time and the two gray hairs that have shown up in my beard. The last thing I wanted to see was another politician out posturing, under the guise of a football promotion, for his run against Hillary two years from now. I turned the channel for Professional Football not more hidden publicity stunts by President wannabes. It is bad enough everyone will have to listen to all the future Presidential Party Sock Puppets strut their stuff on the television runways during the next election cycle, the rest of the time they could at least stay in their smoke-filled backrooms and plan their next barrage of manure spreading and give the voters and sports fans a respite from their stench. Sigh, they could have at least waited until after the holidays! 
That dasterdly Obama! How do you suppose he hijacked the telecast that way?!? How did he force ESPN to air his shameless promotion?
Well, I did a little checking and do you know what I found out? ESPN approached Obama and asked him to do the spot! ESPN tries to get the most famous person they can and were quite pleased by the attention having Obama do the 30 second intro brought to their telecast!
And here you and I are still discussing it, bringing even more attention to Monday Night Football. Quite a coup for ESPN, eh?
Video: Barack Obama’s Monday Night Football Announcement
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In a teasing news release, his office said Monday afternoon that Obama would make an “announcement” prior to the game “about an upcomin…
I never had any doubts about who approached whom, though there are nearly always interconnecting personal contacts that help schmoze the idea along. Actually of all the political-hack-pretenders-to-the-crown tossing their hats into the ring at this point, I liked this clown and was considering voting for him, until this unforgivable act of ruining my football game. Politicians need to stay in their little rats nests until it is rat season and let the real people enjoy the parts of life that politicians need to stay away from when they are out of season instead of cramming a commercial for their presidential candidacy schemes into what should have been an enjoyable respite from their normal B.S. What’s next, am I going to have to endure the next two years of watching Obama leer at Britney Spears and selling Pepsi as I did with Dole. No Thank You! It would be enough to turn me off Mt. Dew! Personally, if I were in the political rings of competition for the up coming vacancy, I would be going to ESPN and demanding equal air time before the next big market high profile game!
A half a minute celebrity intro ruined the game for you?!? If you had said that all the commercials interupting the game ruined it for you I could understand but how could a 30 second intro BEFORE the game even started bother you so much. That reaction seems totally out of proportion to me.
Personally I think all the candidates for president asking for equal time sounds like a great idea. If each candidate for president appeared for a light-hearted 30 seconds before the start of a Monday night game involving his/her favoriate team I would be more likely to make sure I switched the tv on for the beginning of the show.
If you do not like the 30 second celebrity intros I have a suggestion for you. Don’t switch over to the game until about 5 minutes into the program. You also miss a bunch of commercials if you do that.
Scoundrel, good luck getting THIS to happen: “Politicians need to stay in their little rats nest until it is rat season…”
I guess you didn’t get the memo, but “rat season” is now 24/7/365. There’s no getting away from it. I voted for Obama in the primary and the general, but I’m about OD’d on him already. Some mindless Democrat in NH called him the “messiah”. It’s gonna be a loooooooog rat season, baby, made worse by the fact that we live next door to Iowa.