Mayday’s NFL Adventure, episodes 4-6
I took a little time this holiday weekend to catch up on Mayday’s NFL adventures, still ongoing every Thursday night on CCTV-5 at a little past my bedtime.
Episode 4, which I watched here:
Masa, you ham. “If they didn’t give this award to me, who could they give it to?”
The montage of people in the film room looks like it was for another program. A more professional program.
Wow, actually lots of filler this episode – is some of this from that Showtime NFL history show?
Is it just me, or does Ding Dang stick pretty close to Ashin? I’m not suggesting anything here, other than perhaps she might be a bit shy and know him best.
Hah, I’d love to have Mayday doing commentary on NFL games I watch. I mean, it’s not that informative, but it is pretty entertaining.
Haha, Monster: yes, there’s the Philadelphia Eagles and then the Don Henley Eagles. Definitely a different group.
Episode 5, seen here:
The marching band episode! They’re at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia.
I was in marching band: I played snare in the drumline for years and years. I remember the director telling me to eat raw hamburger in my spare time because I was so scrawny compared to the guys. Raw hamburger and forced push-ups in the high school parking lot. Ah, good times.
“Louie Louie, oh baby, I gotta go….” I’ll be huming that today.
Monster’s English is really coming along. I had no idea.
Ding Dang is going to sing her improvisation? Oh dear.
Now, now, Ashin, I think we all know this is not the first time you’ve ever played the drums.
When I was a kid, I went to a Bible camp that sang a version of “Louie, Louie” as though sung by Moses, saying, “Pharaoh, Pharaoh, oooh baby, let my people go… yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah….”
Yeah, Ashin: don’t quit your day job. Guanyou is a much better drummer. 
Okay, they’re all wearing sweatshirts in the DC area in early September. Aren’t they hot??
“DNA” arranged for Marching Band?!? Dodgy. Definitely dodgy. But maybe a bit better than the original….
Oh, speaking of “DNA,” the band has done a two-minute “NFL” version, which you can hear here.
Episode 6, seen here:
Sweethearts, Benjamin Franklin was never the president of the United States. And only the Franklin Library considers itself to be the first library in the country; there are many other (better) claimants to that title.
I doubt that guy outside the library has ever heard of Mayday. I’m just saying.
Here they’re visiting Dean College’s Chinese kicker.
Kickers are very important, though I question whether they are the most important. Kickers are also weird – often very superstitious. The Vikings had a kicker that kept a partly eaten Snickers bar in his shoe and would take exactly one bite for every kick.
Okay, Guanyou’s kick was pathetic. Hilarious, but pathetic.
You know, I hadn’t realized the Pinocchio “your nose will grow if you tell a lie” thing was so universal. But Mr. Ding Long was definitely lying to be polite, because that was some seriously bad kicking.
I love how they’ve managed to come back to the importance of putting your studies before football yet again.
Ding Long is awfully cute.
I wonder if they’ll broadcast it this week? It seems unlikely many people will be watching this instead of the New Year’s specials. Well, I’ll check on it anyway.
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The scene where Masa is accepting his “Best Actress” Emmy makes me want to take a pair of scissors to his hair!
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Thanks for introducing this NFL docu. Never got a chance to see American football. I still wonder why this sport (unlike baseball) didn’t catch on in South Korea or Japan. The most nimble among the five are Monster and Stone. Ashin doesn’t have fantastic motor skills.While Stone’s diction is understandably better since he had lived in Liverpool, I find Masa’s grasp of English more admirable. It ain’t easy to learn a language when it isn’t widely spoken in the native country nor has the person lived in an English-speaking country.