Pat McAfee, College GameDay crew awed by Oklahoma’s epic laser light show
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Pat McAfee is often electric in his behavior on College GameDay without any help from where the crew is broadcasting from.
But in the case of Friday night’s pregame show from Memorial Stadium in Norman, site of the College Football Playoff battle between Oklahoma and Alabama, McAfee and the crew had a little help. Because as they were finishing their analysis in the leadup to the all-SEC Playoff battle, the lights went out at Memorial Stadium and a laser show took flight amid the show that was being broadcast on ESPN.
“This is what college football has that no other sport in the United States of America has!” McAfee screamed amid the laser show that took hold.
McAfee began his take on the Bama-OU game with the lights on before everything changed:
Host Rece Davis chimed in with his own take on the laser show.
“The momentum that can be generated here, the energy, I mean, you can feel this reverberating through the stands here,” Davis said.
A witness to all of this was ESPN analyst Nick Saban, who was on hand to watch the program he used to lead, Alabama, face a very tough road environment in Norman.
Of course, it was unusual for the College GameDay crew to be broadcasting the show in the dark, unless it was a show from the West Coast that began at the crack of dawn Pacific time.
But this wasn’t that. This was a leadup show to a primetime Playoff game, so it was nighttime in Norman and, suddenly, it was all dark except for those lights coming from the crowd at Memorial Stadium.
It was simply electric, and this was all before the game even started that would decide who was advancing to the quarterfinal.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
