NFL Admits to Mistakenly Playing the Wrong Sound During 'Moment of Unity'.

Today, the NFL has owned it's mistake and has already made efforts to ensure a similar mistake will never happen again. "It was a simple mistake at a very inopportune time. There are a lot of things that look different this year, because of the COVID-19 restrictions", said a spokesman the NFL. "We're all adjusting and mistakes are bound to happen, but we make no excuses. We dropped the ball on this one."

When asked to further clarify the mishap, the NFL spokesman said, "Well, we have some tracks specifically queued up and ready—much like laugh tracks in a sitcom or a Joe Biden town hall when he goes off script and tries to tell a joke—and in this case, our audio technician mixed up the buttons. So, when the sound guy pushed "LOUD CHEERS" what was actually played instead was "LOUD BOOS" intermingled with the real fans who were obviously cheering as loud and proud as they could."

There were many questions about why the boos were so prevalent during the NFL's first virtue-signal of the year, but as it turns out it was nothing more than technical difficulties. The Sunday Night Football crew were quick to identify and correct the issue and the buttons were relabeled before they were mistakenly misused again. The NFL also instituted fail safes by including a 3-second delay on their broadcasts so that the TV audience would never hear the wrong reactions again. To further avoid another embarrassing moment, the broadcasts will no longer record any real game sounds and all audio will be carefully scripted and choreographed, much like the actual games, plays, and final scores have been for decades.

"The more guess work and spontaneity you can take out of it, the better it is for everyone. We lost control there for a moment and it really could have cost us. Going forward, we are committed to taking a much more 'hands on' approach to this, to ensure mistakes like these don't happen again. Our fans, and more importantly our advertisers, are very important to us and we want to ensure everyone that the NFL remains the premier and marketable asset that people have come to expect. Companies are very hesitant to put their reputations and money behind anything that could be perceived as offensive or insensitive. If we can't guarantee these businesses that we will keep them from getting canceled by the social-justice mobs, then we're not doing our job. And booing during a moment of unity is not acceptable. We have ensured these organizations that these boos were in no way attributed to real fans sharing their real feelings and we will spare no expense to ensure that this kind of mistake does not happen again on Network television or our syndicated radio broadcasts."

JONAH ZIMMERMAN

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