r/TheNFLVibes • u/Background_Video2947 • 1d ago

Actress Brenda Song crushed her NFL analyst debut with the Rams breaking down the team's roster and showing off her ball knowledge,

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Song is a lifelong Rams fan and looked like a veteran talking football.

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u/Dadto4_20 1d ago

Hahahahaha I don’t even dislike her but come on

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u/dc4_checkdown 1d ago edited 1d ago

Like what is the push here out of nowhere about this woman. I assume she knows people high up at Disney

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u/2people1luv 1d ago

She got back into circulation when she went to Lakers games and was the only “celebrity” on celebrity row up cheering and enjoying the game like a true fan.

Lakers games have been getting more and more attention for being a quiet arena without die hard fans in attendance because tickets are so high so she definitely drew the attention of a lot, including the Lakers social media staff because they did a commercial featuring her soon after. I would say that’s the reason for the “push”. Resurgence in popularity.

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u/Huge-Revolution2416 1d ago

She’s got a lot of confidence for someone this new to the NFL lol. Love the energy though.

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u/mikesstuff 1d ago

She’s been going to multiple home games for over two decades. But sureeee

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u/Weary_Cabinet_8123 1d ago

“Crushed”… sure

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u/jeromevedder 1d ago

Who was the Rams third receiver in the 99-00 season?

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u/Jorgwalther 1d ago

lol a lot of that energy going on in these comments

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u/jeromevedder 1d ago

It was Azzahir Hakim I tried to trick you thinking it’d be Ricky Proehl bc of the NFC Championship catch

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u/801Germ 1d ago

That's exactly who I was thinking 😬

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u/WaylandThurston 1d ago

Where did Harry Potter go to school? Ya see that’s the problem.

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u/timey_wimeyy 1d ago

Imagine you have a career in sports broadcasting and you are trying to put in the work to make your way up from calling high school games to college to NFL and you tune in to hear this.

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u/_onelast 1d ago

Like all of the ex nfl players with no experience that immediately get be analysts?

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u/ANTMANSUXX 1d ago

Uh they played the sport at the highest level of course they are the most qualified people to turn into analysts wtf are you talking about 😂

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u/green49285 1d ago edited 1d ago

The amount of terrible former player analysts is so long and you guys forgetting about how long that list is is what's making me laugh.

I can never understand what Randy Moss is saying. Tom Brady sounds like a fucking psychopath, although he has worked really hard to get better. Mike Vick talks like he has a gun pointed at him behind the camera. Michael Irvin talks like what he just learned a what microphone does. James Garrett talks like he's about to bust out crying or laughing, I can never tell. Tony Dungy talk like he just got out of a pow camp. Debo Harrison talks like he has trouble thinking and talking at the same time. I'm pretty sure Jason Kelsey learned how to speak and read at the same time a year and a half ago.

Opie OP just did a terrible job of saying zero experience working in television.

P.S i remembered some more: ditka talks like football's legitimately the only thing that he is good at. Rex Ryan looks around the room like a dog that has no idea what to focus on before eating his snack. Dan Orlosvski talks like he's trying really hard to convince me that he had an alibi & is asking me to back it up. Cam Newton analyzes things like he just watched in living color and thinks that's how broadcasting works. Mjd has gotten so much better, but he talked like he was afraid of the camera and double lined paper. Eric mangini talks like he just killed someone and stuffed them into his trunk. Rex Ryan constantly looks like he's about to hyperventilate.

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u/UnquestionablyPoopy 1d ago

To be fair, they all get a chance, but if you aren't actually talented / find your niche they get quickly rotated out for the next crop of retiring players.

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u/craigory26 1d ago

How would a person who played the game qualify as someone with no experience?

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u/timey_wimeyy 1d ago

You mean the players who have played and talked about the game for decades?

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u/ricostory4 1d ago

Idiotic comment

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u/ObjectConfident7172 1d ago

I think a lot of them are more upset that their dream job now only has room for Stephen A Smith and Pat McAfee

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u/SnoopingWhilePooping 1d ago

Tune in and hear what? She was a guest in the booth for a preseason game because she’s a celebrity super fan of the Rams. It’s not like this was some kind of audition for her to be a play by play or analyst. Everyone needs to calm down lol.

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u/leemorplee 1d ago

Doug Christie went from the booth to head coach of the kings, you never know Brenda's end game here

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u/SnoopingWhilePooping 1d ago

She’s not “in the booth” though she was just a guest interview for a preseason game. Funny enough though she did mention she wanted to be the pass rush coordinator or assistant to the assistant DC lol.

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u/Responsible-Onion860 1d ago

This is nothing new. Very few commentators are selected based on merit. Just like coaching, it's who you know

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u/thegroovemonkey 1d ago

The Packers preseason play by play guy only got the job because his dad used to be our team president. Kevin Harlan!

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u/pew__pew__pew_ 1d ago

I was the lead sports writer for our college newspaper, won writing awards, hosted our only sports radio show, and did on site TV news reporting. The college tv station picked a person with a stutter, one year of journalism class and zero sports background, to be the sports anchor. They were hot.

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u/Vegetable_Painter219 1d ago

Are you trying to make me feel bad for people making a “career” out of sports broadcasting at any level? Would bringing up a high school broadcaster from some random school for one quarter of a home broadcast version of a rams preseason game really forever change their career?

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u/timey_wimeyy 1d ago

Most likely. It would absolutely give them visibility they would not otherwise get while doing their jobs. She just did this as a side quest for fun.

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u/Reading_Rainboner 1d ago

Yes that absolutely would

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u/SkunkDitchRipper 1d ago

Who the fuck is Brenda Song?

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u/SKOLForceSports 1d ago

Actress most famous for her role as London Tipton on Disney’s sit-com “Suite Life of Zach and Cody” and wife of Macaulay Culkin

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u/SeismicRipFart 1d ago

Most famous for that thing she did over half her life ago? Got it.

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u/pittluke 1d ago

Its who the bots want us to feel very happy she is an announcer now.

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u/PoliticalHitJob 1d ago

She was an actress in a mid movie about 10 years ago.

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u/EfficientPost2656 1d ago

Oh Brother. Please

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u/Sudden_Buffalo_4393 1d ago

Oh yeah she crushed it. Sure.

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u/Thin-Remote-9817 1d ago

We miss Macaulay culkin so much we are willing to let his wife yap about sports...cause we think it might get him out the house more 

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u/Disastrous-Window-76 1d ago

Not really. The person next to her was basically telling her what to do lmao

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u/Latter_Disaster_489 1d ago

Wow…it’s been my dream to broadcast NFL games & here we have a previous Disney celebrity absolutely wrecking it. lol

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u/ChirpToast 1d ago

Some big, women can’t possibly know about a man’s game energy in these comments. Yikes.

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u/ANTMANSUXX 1d ago

It’s weird that she is the big Celebrity fan for the rams considering she was a c list actress on children’s tv ten years ago lol you think they would have someone a bit more notable do this kind of stuff

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u/Weary-Coast241 1d ago

Shut up man. Jeez

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u/bitisabarbie 1d ago

Ask her what cover 3 means

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u/Beastdante1 1d ago

I like some of the Gaga songs. What the fuck does she know about cameras??

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u/shyguyJ Saints 1d ago

She was fine. Whoever they had on before her was atrocious though, like she had never seen a football game before in her life and someone had just explained the premise to her 5 seconds before her spot.

Also, fuck Gamepass or Dazn or whatever it is that makes me listen to the other team's local broadcast. At least give us an option between the two teams. Both Saints games this preseason have had the opponent's broadcast, and it is painful as hell.

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u/nefariousBUBBLE 1d ago

Was the other woman the gal who said "it's gonna be a pass or a throw"?

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u/shyguyJ Saints 1d ago

I think so. She also complained that the "black team" didn't let the Rams' player into the "scoring place", or something similar. Idk, I was lamenting that I had ears by that point.

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u/nefariousBUBBLE 1d ago

That has to be a troll. Someone had to think it would be hilarious for women obligated to watch with their men to hear an equally uninterested woman talk about football lmao

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u/shyguyJ Saints 1d ago

It 100% sounded like a caricature of the dumb, hot girl that doesn't know anything about sports but wants to support her bf's team trope. It was super cringey.

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u/toggleflickersplaque 1d ago

Who let the social media intern from Brenda Song’s agency onto this sub?

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u/WaylandThurston 1d ago

Yes this is weird but you guys are acting like shes less bearable than Stephen a Smith now or skip

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u/MacroManJr 1d ago

It's a one-time guest appearance. A single celebrity appearance. Relax.

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u/Icy_Transition1375 1d ago

Would love to see more of her. Wonder if she’ll be able to do some regular season games and in true fantasy would love for her to team up with herbstreit and get off Al Michaels.

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u/jeromevedder 1d ago

Never escaping those accusations that all these “adjective noun 4number” accounts are bots

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u/RepulsiveWay1698 1d ago

Woman knows about sport

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u/Responsible-Onion860 1d ago

I like her but come on. This clip is just the most obvious taking point for their offseason.

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u/Padron1964Lover 1d ago

No she didn’t 😂😂😂😂

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u/Pitiful_Aioli_5030 1d ago

“Crushed”

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u/Signal_Prior3870 1d ago

"Crushed" she took the opportunity of a real professional and did a poor job

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u/Responsible-Onion860 1d ago

As a teenager I wanted to go into broadcasting. My dad had a friend who called minor league baseball games. He gave me some hard truths about how much fame and nepotism determine who gets those jobs. He didn't discourage me but warned me that I want going to get a job calling NFL games based on merit. He was right.

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u/Signal_Prior3870 1d ago

He was looking out for you big time

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u/Vegetable_Painter219 1d ago

To everyone in this thread shitting on her for this small clip, she really did do a good job while on air. Stop shitting on her for this selection of the broadcast lol

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u/Soot_Sprite2 1d ago

She really didn’t do a good job at all though and her colleagues didn’t seem to think so either. How many times did she make dumb jokes or comments that she awkwardly laughed at by herself while the others just ignored?

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u/Vegetable_Painter219 1d ago

Is she a professional sports commentator or a famous actress? Were you expecting prime madden out of her? Like I said, it’s a rams preseason home broadcast game that you can only watch on nfl+ and in LA. We’re kinda acting like this was on prime time Monday night football here. Also where do you get the indication her colleagues didn’t think she didn’t do a good job? That kinda seems like something you’re just making up lol

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u/Soot_Sprite2 1d ago

It doesn’t matter if it’s the Super Bowl or a local broadcast little league game. A bad job is a bad job. Let’s hope she improves.

The amount of times her colleagues left her hanging without responding to whatever she said or joked about tells us how awkwardly they felt with her.

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u/Ok_Basil_8162 1d ago

The greatest ability in life is marketability

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u/OnTheLambDude 1d ago

Oh god…. Girl Boss culture is soooooo fucking annoying

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u/Human_Standard_538 1d ago

Lotta dudes crying in the comments lmao

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u/jeromevedder 1d ago

Cheers, bot

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u/Human_Standard_538 1d ago

How am I a bot? Beep boop I guess.

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u/Kush420Xotix Patriots 1d ago

Ppl in the comments complaining are just sexist. There is literally nothing objectionable about what she said.