NBC's Super Bowl XX 'Intermission'

[Fenway1912]

One of the great 'stunts' of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5qcX8AZP78&feature=player_embedded

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Didn't it end up being the most-watched single minute of the entire two-plus-hour pre-game show??

 

[Fenway1912]

Didn't it end up being the most-watched single minute of the entire two-plus-hour pre-game show??

It did indeed.

 

[KML0224]

That's the first time I've seen that since it was live! Sadly, I no longer have a copy of that game (I have XXI to XLVI with varying quality). Before playing the clip, I thought that minute was of regular silence. It wouldn't have been for the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, since that happened two days later.

 

[Fenway1912]

There was an amazing amount of hype over this

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/19...70310_1_pregame-show-super-bowl-silent-minute

``We wanted to break all the cliches and one of them is the pregame show is too long and boring,`` Weisman said. ``That`s one of the reasons we wanted to have an intermission.

``Now it`s so ironic. We have this great pregame show planned and people are going to be sitting around at Super Bowl parties, waiting for the spectacle of the minute.


``I can just see everything stopping at parties. Someone yells, `Here it comes.` And then everyone stares at a blank screen.``

and this is EXACTLY what happened.