The NFL Network duped Dick Vitale into thinking he was watching a live game between the Lions and Packers on Thursday Night Football
You just hate to see something like this unfold on Twitter. Legendary college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale was bamboozled by the NFL Network into thinking a Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers game was a live, Thursday Night Football game tonight.
Dickie V fired off the Tweet below, completely locked in ready to fire off some words about an “important NFL matchup” on NFL Network.
Dick Vitale thinking he’s watching a live NFL game
The only problem, is that the game was a replay and the NFL straight up duped Dickie V and who knows how many other senior citizens across America into thinking that it was a live sporting event.
Dick Vitale 30 minutes later
Honestly, this has happened to me before as well. I have a rough time keeping track of dates and times in general and then all of the sudden it’s a Wednesday night and you stumble across a reply of a sporting event after a few drinks and an edible.
Next thing you know, you’re locked in only to find out after opening up your favorite sportsbook app to get in on the action thats unfolding before your own eyes only to find out that there’s actually no sporting event happening at all.
Now, you sit there like a total moron because you’ve been duped by the cable television overlords into thinking you actually had something worth living for while in reality, you’re just an incapacitated idiot on your couch alone in your apartment.
Sorry for getting personal there but point being, it’s happened several times. I’m not happy about it and Dick Vitale wasn’t either, but as always, Dickie V handled the embarrassing moment with complete class.
On a larger scale, as a country, we can’t have an American icon like Dick Vitale thinking he’s watching live sporting events only to find out that it’s a replay 30 minutes later. It’s a bad look for the country, for democracy, and American sports in general.
Hopefully we can overcome these trying times and look at tonight as a hard lesson learned that when you’re a college basketball legend, it’s probably best to just stay in your own lane and focus only on the sport you know like the back of your hand.
Plus, a Lions-Packers game? I know the NFL machine rules all, but yikes.
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