Fri 27 Jan 2006
KDKA-TV2 5 AM News, Tueday, January 24, 2006.
Keith Jones and Sonni Abatta are coming out of a romantically unpleasant story about a man in Utah finally relenting and asking his girlfriend of many years to marry him:
Keith Jones: Yeah, see, the safer bet woulda said, “When the Penguins win the Cup.”
[Jones stares into the camera, deadpan]
Ouch.
Sonni Abatta: Ouch! Ouch, Keith!
Keith Jones: There’s a new Steelers song out there, and it doesn’t mention a thing about the Super Bowl, or how great the team is: It only mentions one player. A local band called — this is funny stuff — [shakes his head, laughing] Mr. Devious came up with it when a few weeks back, a Fox Sports announcer butchered Troy Polamalu’s name.
[Shot cuts to footage of Troy Polamalu on the ground, groping desperately for the ball, as the song “Polamalu”, to the tune of the Muppets song “Mahna Mahna” plays.]
Sonni Abatta: [mumbling jovially] …The Muppets… [laughs]
[Song continues unabated over unedited, semi-related game footage. Sonni Abatta laughs again. Shot cuts back to Keith Jones, who has the corners of several sheets of paper in his smiling mouth.]
Keith Jones: I am absolutely entertained by this, I’m telling you.
[Big Smile.]
Several radio stations are playing this song, I’ve heard it, and it’s being e-mailed like crazy. In fact, more than 8,000 people have downloaded that song.
[Big Smile.]
Sonni Abatta: It’s great! It’s like that Muppet song, the “Mahna—
Keith Jones: It sounds like it, doesn’t it?
Sonni Abatta: Yeah!
Keith Jones: Gonzo, or one of ‘em…
[Makes Wacky Bug-Eyed Face]
Sonni Abatta: Alright, 5:57 the time, 24 degrees.
[Cut to Commercial.]
— Submitted by Station 8XK