For most fans, the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV marked their final football memory before COVID-19 changed the world as we know it.
So it would have been understandable for viewers of Good Morning Football to have flashbacks when they tuned into Tuesday’s show — two days after the Chiefs beat the 49ers in another Super Bowl — only to find the cast taking part in a COVID-style remote show.
Fear not, we’re not entering another pandemic (at least not that I’m aware of). Rather, Good Morning Football was being hosted remotely as a result of the snowstorm in the Northeast, which has hit the show’s home base of New York City especially hard.
“It is a snow globe in the New York/Connecticut/New Jersey area so everyone’s staying safe, at least in our neck of the woods as we put a bow on Super Bowl LVIII,” host Jamie Erdahl said as the show started with panelists Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager and Jason McCourty all appearing from different locations.
While the COVID-19 pandemic was filled with hardships and tragedies, it also resulted in ingenuities that are still being put to good use today — especially in the media space. Prior to COVID-19, the idea of a television show consisting of four hosts talking to each other from their respective living rooms (or in Brandt’s case, what appeared to be a basement) would have seemed unfathomable. Now it’s all but second nature to any television professional.
What would Good Morning Football have done in the event of a snowstorm, pre-COVID? Brave the dangerous elements? Rely on a limited cast and crew? Cancel the show altogether?
While hosting the show remotely obviously isn’t ideal, it’s also a much better alternative than any of the options that likely would have been considered a mere four years ago.
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