Sunday, September 8, 2013

ICYMI: Awkward Interview of the Year: Eminem on ESPN College Football Show

Yikes!

If you haven't seen this, it's worth about 4 minutes of your time only because it's an absolute train wreck.

Since ESPN has apparently contracted with Eminem to produce music for their Monday Night Football broadcast, some genius at the 4-letter decided it would be "cool" to have him promo it Saturday night at halftime of the Notre Dame/Michigan game.

And yeah, it was as bad as it could possibly have been.

Awkward.

Brent Musburger tries at first to get Em talking, Em looks totally lost and uncomfortable. Brent keeps poking, asking questions about the music and the artist known as Marshall Mathers answers, though he looks and sounds like he'd like to be anywhere other than where he is.

Meanwhile Kirk Herbstreit just stands there.

At about the 2 minute mark, Brent becomes Brent and asks Mathers about the betting line on the Detroit Lions/Minnesota game Sunday afternoon. Eminem dodges it as best he can. Towards the end, Mathers goes on a old announcer riff.

Priceless...



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