Uploaded January 2011 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
In this 1997 commercial, popular former football quarterback Brett Farve seems ill at ease on the sidelines. A quick phone call to the circling blimp to ask if he left the lights on on his truck eases his concerns.
Nowadays, making a phone call or texting or tweeting or whatever from the sidelines is explicitly disallowed in the NFL. Also, Farve is retired (twice, at least!) so he couldn't do it anyway.
Wow, check out those phones. Sprint was known for their high tech phones, and yet these look hilariously dated now.
This ad aired during a showing of Entertainment Tonight on KRON on October 23rd, 1997 after the Baseball World Series on NBC (KRON was NBC at the time).
In this 1997 commercial, popular former football quarterback Brett Farve seems ill at ease on the sidelines. A quick phone call to the circling blimp to ask if he left the lights on on his truck eases his concerns.
Nowadays, making a phone call or texting or tweeting or whatever from the sidelines is explicitly disallowed in the NFL. Also, Farve is retired (twice, at least!) so he couldn't do it anyway.
Wow, check out those phones. Sprint was known for their high tech phones, and yet these look hilariously dated now.
This ad aired during a showing of Entertainment Tonight on KRON on October 23rd, 1997 after the Baseball World Series on NBC (KRON was NBC at the time).
