THE SUPER BOWL 53 TWO FOR TUESDAY

Today’s Toobish look at Super Bowl 53 has nothing to do with the commercials.  It’s a Two for Tuesday look at the televersions of Peyton Manning and John Malkovich, members of the League of Themselves who kicked off the CBS coverage.

The opening looked like every other bleeping opening ever for the Super Bowl with perhaps the biggest cliché possible – “Clash of the Titans”, a gladiator grudge match.

It then cut to the executive board room at CBS where it turned out the video was just a warm-up in Peyton Manning’s vision of a budget-breaking opening act.

The CBS executives were beginning to regret hiring Peyton Manning, a Super Bowl champion -#

Sorry.  TWO-time Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning had blown a massive hole in the budget even though he was just supposed to be a consultant.  (Pronounce that as “figurehead”.)  And he wasn’t finished yet – he had also rented out the Coliseum in Rome, Italy, and hired actor John Malkovich.  

The “thesbian” curmudgeon couldn’t understand what his presence in the historical landmark could possibly have to do with the Super Bowl.  And he didn’t hold back in dressing down Manning and the executives for such a numbskull idea.

As I said earlier, these were the “televersions” of Peyton Manning and John Malkovich, interacting with fictional characters.  It wasn’t real life.  So this piece of Super Bowl history will be considered as legitimate qualifications for each of them should they ever qualify for membership in the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.

Both of them have several appearances in connection to ‘Saturday Night Live’ and Peyton also played himself in the Tooniverse with his brothers for an episode of ‘The Simpsons’.  Could have had another for Manning but he played a fictional character in an episode of ‘Modern Family’ rather than himself.

As for Malkovich, I can’t see him playing himself again just to get the bare minimum of qualifications for his tally.  But who knows?  He did do the Super Bowl, after all….

Malkovich & Manning – Two for Tuesday!