If you watched the Bears heaping misery onto the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football this week, you saw something nobody’s seen in awhile — an enjoyable Bears game in primetime. Well, not since the Sunday before that, when the Bears had the Packers on the ropes before Aaron Rodgers hobbled his way to a huge comeback.
Here’s Brian Urlacher’s halftime speech ESPN didn’t show during ‘Monday Night Football’
At least the network knows they screwed up.
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What you didn’t see on Monday night was Brian Urlacher’s Hall of Fame presentation at halftime of the Bears game where the team presented him with his Hall of Fame ring. Instead, ESPN gave its viewers a show from some band called “Cheat Code.”
The network apologized for the obvious error on Wednesday.
“That was a miss,” Jay Rothman, ESPN’s vice president of production said. “We should have played it back. We did not play it back. Our halftime show does what it does. But we could have inserted it to start the third quarter and should have.”
The whole event lasted around four minutes, or a little under, so it wasn’t exactly a huge time drain for halftime. And while it wasn’t exactly a stemwinder, it was a cool moment for Bears fans ... for football fans in general, really.
Anyway, when you’re done putting together your “Cheat Code” inspired playlists, you can check out Urlacher’s halftime presentation right here.
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