6/9/2023 0 Comments Bugs vs daffy footballEach Big Game's results would generally be what one would expect considering the track records of the characters involved (in the first one, Jerry was the winner). There would even be an ersatz halftime show complete with fake commercials. The "games" themselves, held at Chuck Jones Stadium, consisted of cartoon clips with football sound effects and commentary by Pat Summerall and John Madden. There would be a "pre-game" marathon of cartoons featuring the characters being pitted against one another, interspersed with tongue-in-cheek studio coverage by Len Dawson, Nick Buoniconti, Cris Collinsworth, and Jerry Glanville. ![]() Although the special was numbered as being the twenty-sixth annual of its kind, this was only to give the illusion of it having been a longtime tradition like the event that inspired it. Jerry was the first in a series of four Super Bowl spoofs that aired yearly on Cartoon Network from 1998-2001. Title card as seen in The Big Game: A Look Back (2000).
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