I assume Kenny Mayne’s “Mayne Event” segment aired previously on this weekend’s Sunday NFL Countdown program on ESPN. But I didn’t see it then. I saw it last night, when it aired on SportsCenter, about an hour before I fell asleep on the couch in such a way that my leg went incredibly, eerily numb, so much so that, when I stood up, I immediately fell flat on my face. (No video, sadly.)
Anyway, the premise for this week’s installment came out of the “genius” idea that Cowboys assistant coach Tony Sparano, he of the “To Catch a Predator” mustache, well, his name sounds an awful lot like that of Tony Soprano. An idea like that writes itself. I have a few thoughts. You know what to do.
1. I realize Coach Sparano is not a trained stage actor, and that the segment took him a bit outside of his wheelhouse. I get that. But, still. Wow. I’ve seen better performances on late-night local TV spots for ambulance-chasing lawyers.
2. Sopranos cast members not in the immediate family — your Paulie Walnutses, and so on — will appear in virtually anything. Three of them (Paulie, Uncle June, and Bobby) showed up in a framing device for the skit. You know what? I’d have done it, too. That gravy train’s gotta run out of gas at some point.
3. You know who else will appear in just about anything televised? Mark Cuban. I know. Shocker. Cubes showed up in the “Mayne Event” spoof of the famous last scene of the series. Why we didn’t ask him to be in FrontBurner: The Movie I’ll never know.
4. I would have to assume that the bit was filmed sometime before the bye week, since Tony Romo also appeared in the spoof when everyone knows he spent all week in Mexico at a government-sponsored think tank, going over white papers about Darfur and Iraq exit strategies with his beloved soul mate. Jessica Simpson also joined Romo and Jason Witten on the trip.
5. Seriously, what was the point again? I think Kenny Mayne is a funny guy, really. But his “Mayne Event” business is always pretty “eh.”
6. I may have a circulation problem. My leg couldn’t have been any more dead to me last night if it borrowed a large sum of money and then skipped town with my wife.
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I think this thing originally aired 6-7 weeks ago. Can’t recall exactly but it’s been a while. Of course, leave it to ESPN to not put in any new ideas/time and just rehash this to death.
Kenny Mayne beats me. Honestly, if someone wanted to kill me, all you have to do is tie me to a chair in front of TV. Then, force me to watch all of Mayne’s comedy sketches, Chris Berman calling the HR Derby, every single “1 and 10″ episode with camera trained on Skip Bayless and cap it off with Jim Rome episodes. Head would explode after two hours tops.
Please don’t kill me.