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Key & Peele’s Spoof Of Football Pre-Game Hype Sessions Is Brilliant, Over-The-Top Lunacy

Friday Night Lights meets Fight Club.

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Football players are a passionate bunch. No one takes the business of giving 110 percent, taking it all the way to the finals and showing the other team what we’re really made of more seriously than they do, no matter the code, and a vital part of maintaining that enthusiasm is the pre-game hype session, where everyone crowds around and screams motivational sentiments into each other’s faces. Unfortunately, such unbridled emotion can occasionally get out of hand.

That escalated quickly.