MrsTaborJet Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 No "Seinfeld" for Eli? Jerry to the rescue following TV prank By DINESH RAMDE, Associated Press Writer January 18, 2008 MILWAUKEE (AP) -- For a show that was about nothing, the hubbub around it has certainly turned into something. A Green Bay television station decided to have some fun this week after employees discovered that Giants quarterback Eli Manning's favorite show is "Seinfeld." Station officials decided to pull the episode scheduled for Saturday afternoon and replace it with a different program chosen by viewers. Manning and his New York teammates will be in town to play the Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship game Sunday afternoon. News of WLUK-TV's decision apparently reached Jerry Seinfeld himself. "I'm going to send Eli a complete collection of 'Seinfeld' DVDs and a partial collection of 'Hogan's Heroes' for inspiration," the comedian told the New York Post on Thursday. "You think I'm going to take that sitting down?" Jay Zollar, the Fox station's general manager, laughed when he heard of Seinfeld's response. Zollar joked that the offer actually plays into the station's master plan of preventing Manning from being master of the domain on Sunday. "Now he (Manning) will be up all night watching 'Seinfeld' -- there will be no sleep for you," he said, parodying the Soup **** episode in which a server admonishes noncompliant customers with, "No soup for you!" Manning said Friday the whole affair was amusing. "Yeah, it's pretty funny," he said. "You've got to enjoy it." Manning added that he already has the entire "Seinfeld" collection. "I've seen every episode anyway, so I'm not going to miss anything on it," he said. "Again, you take it all in, you smile at it and you don't really give it a lot of thought." A message from The Associated Press relayed to Seinfeld's publicist through his lawyer was not immediately returned Friday. The station let viewers vote on the show to replace the pulled "Seinfeld" episode. Of about 3,700 votes cast, some 60 percent were for a 30-minute special about former Packers coach Vince Lombardi called "God, Family and the Green Bay Packers." The other choices included a rerun of "The Donald Driver Show" from Monday, "M*A*S*H" and an infomercial starring former Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith. The pre-empted "Seinfeld" episode is "The Mango" from Season 5. In the show Cosmo Kramer gets booted from a fruit store for trying to return a bad peach, George Costanza suffers impotence, yada yada yada. Zollar said most people realized his station's move was in jest, but some thought the station should be treating the Giants better. "Some people think we're mean," he said. "Some say we're not welcoming, that we should be gracious hosts, we should invite them in and be nice to their quarterback." He said he doesn't understand how people could interpret the move as a sincere attempt at sabotage. "Obviously, Eli coming to Green Bay, coming to watch a TV show at 5:30 p.m. the night before the game, it's pretty unlikely," he said. Associated Press sports writer Tom Canavan in East Rutherford, N.J., contributed to this report. Updated on Friday, Jan 18, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Bit Special Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 this hokey sh!t is so friggin annoying. play the game already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 not on the giants. just on eli. and it made no difference because sony sent him a dvd player and the entire seinfeld package Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 wow what a great prank! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Yeah - dem cheezers are a laugh a minute. Dey really come up wit some knee slappers. <no offense Drago> Ders some silly folks up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serphnx Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 This is a badly written article, it's National Enquirer level imo. Where is jetophile when you need her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodWearsAGrayHoodie Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 With only two football game to be played this week the story lines have been: Moss: sex, lies and extortion The Anna Grant story or how I got booed all the way the AFCCG coin toss Bill Belichick critiques disco music TO Cries Jessica Simpson look-a-like at the Cowboys game Green bay denies Eli humor, Jerry to the rescue Rivers the master of trash talk. I want some football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brenjetsfan Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 yea i heard Jerry sent Eli the whole DVD season from day 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
124 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 This was only a prank on Eli, and, this is old news. This was in the paper on Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drago Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 [quote name='Blackout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afosomf Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 what would be funnier is for someone to slip SJ a beano pill is his ice tea!!! the ole man would explode just trying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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