Saturday Night Live opens with CBS’s coverage of the AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens. The mood of the half-time crew is dour – after today, they have nothing worth living for, since real football is over (the Superbowl is for “commercials, and Usher, and people who never watch football asking how much a touchdown is worth”) and “there’s no other live TV that’s even remotely watchable”.
The conversation turns to how culturally adrift American men are at the moment – not only is football coming to an end, so is the TV tentpole Blue Bloods, while dad-favorite Yellowstone (“our Barbie”) was once again snubbed by the Emmys. This leads the crew to sing a rendition of Wiz Khalifa See You Again.
