April Fool's Day (This Chapter Is Free)

512. April Fool's Day (This chapter is free)

At midnight on April 1, 2003 at 12 am, ESPN Sports announced an official news.

ESPN Sports Station announced that relevant departments of ESPN NBA have officially withdrawn and established ESPN Entertainment Channel. The NBA channel of ESPN Sports Station will be officially withdrawn at 9:00 am. ESPN Entertainment Channel will start trial broadcast at 9:00 am. Official broadcast at 9 o'clock.

The type of the first program is a talk show. The name of this program is "Ace Liu Talk Show", and the host is the new star of the Eagles, Ace Liu.

April 1st, April Fool's Day, is not an official holiday in Western countries, but the French New Year before the calendar was changed in the 15th century. The conservatives in the 15th century refused to change the first day of the new year from April 1st to January 1st. , So the reformers hold a fake New Year's banquet on this day, find some fake "celebrities" to tease those old-schoolers, and then make a big publicity to ridicule them, and the reputation of the old-schoolers has also plummeted. After a while, everyone got used to it, and the conservatives couldn't afford it. Later on April 1st, teasing people gradually became popular and became a folk festival, which was not recognized by the government.

However, although it is not officially recognized, in European and American countries, April 1st is indeed a holiday that people like very much, and various industries will play some tricks on this point.

Students often take the opportunity to make all kinds of jokes. Of course, like in China, some people confess their love today, and if they are rejected, they say it is an April Fool's joke. Some are successful, and some women are really joking. , some men intentionally tease people...

The jokes between adults are more restrained, and of course it does not rule out the kind of people with blue heads who play too big and get off.

However, it is those big companies that usually look serious about April Fool's Day that pay the most attention. In the future, even the President of the United States and the news media will like to make troubles on April Fool's Day.

But now, in 2003, April Fool's Day is more a day for ordinary people to have fun with big companies who want to show their company's creativity. It has not yet reached the age of information explosion, and the news media is still relatively conservative and rigorous.

So as soon as the ESPN news came out, many people actually believed it!

Of course, many people simply don't believe it.

Netizens have no borders. Netizens all over the world are the same. Trolls are flying all over the sky. Even if many people don’t believe it in their hearts, the attribute of bullshit has exploded. They gossip with those who express their disbelief on the Internet, inexplicably. As if he was convinced of it.

NBA, a very common name in the United States, Liu Mang, is not a big man, but the connection between the NBA and Liu Mang has caused quite a stir.

Many sports fans in the American sports circle have been shocked. What is this guy who has been doing things in the North American sports circle from time to time in the past two years?

Do you really want to do some talk show?

ESPN is such a big TV station, is it really messing around with this guy?

Nonsense!

Since April 1st is Sunday, many people really watched the news on ESPN Sports Channel in the early hours of Saturday night!

In the early morning of the next day, many news media reprinted this matter, and some morning papers even made headlines!

No matter how noisy people are, no matter how fierce the words of those who insist on not believing in themselves, and no matter how questioned the news media are, anyway, people who pay close attention to sports and the NBA are looking forward to the arrival of nine o'clock soon.

Not only sports fans, but even NBA players were confused by this news, because there will be a national live broadcast on the night of the 1st, and many stars are paying attention to this matter.

And because the time is too early, the news released in the early morning, the legendary program will start at 9 o'clock in the morning, and there is no chance to interview Liu Mang or ESPN for those media who are trying to "dispel the rumors". From early morning to nine in the morning, in just a few hours, Liu Mang became popular all over the United States overnight!

It doesn't cost money to watch the excitement, so, from 7 o'clock in the morning, the ratings of ESPN Sports' NBA channel are abnormally high!

It happened to be Sunday, and the ratings were actually higher early in the morning than during the live broadcast of the NBA regular season in prime time at night!

The closer the time was to nine o'clock, the higher the ratings were, and at 8:50, it was even higher than the ratings of the playoffs.

At this time, most of the interested people turned on the TV and waited to watch TV to see what ESPN and Liu Mang were going to do.

Even if this matter is just ESPN's fake news for jokes, even if people are tricked, they will still lose a lot of meat.

Like No. 8 who got up at 4:00 in the morning in Los Angeles and just finished ironing. A certain young man who lives in a hotel arranged by Nike in New York and doesn’t know how precious the hairline is is getting up early and choosing the jersey after entering the NBA Guy, moved his family to Charlotte, a 40-year-old man with a beer belly in less than two months, two beautiful girls in a luxury villa in Atlanta, amateur e-sports fans in Houston... so many and People with good or bad relations with Liu Mang are very concerned about this matter, waiting in front of the TV.

At 8:59, the icons of the NBA channel were changed. A beautifully designed ESPN entertainment channel icon replaced the ESPN sports icon, and the ESPN sports icon was moved to the center of the TV screen, and then Shattered, an enlarged version of the ESPN entertainment channel icon appeared in the center, then shrunk and moved to the upper right corner.

It was exactly nine o'clock, and the TV screen went dark, and one picture after another kept switching on the screen, all of which were Liu Mang's, the draft, the picture of Yanshe Francis in the Eagles' first show against Francis, the picture of facing McGrady, killing The pictures of the OK team winning the victory and building the team's confidence, repeatedly defeating Iverson, winning the rookie game MVP, the All-Star MVP, dunking Duncan, dunking Payton, playing outside, playing inside... and so on. There must be a background in the picture, and Los Angeles people often appear in the scene.

After the marquee scenes ended, a large English word art of "Ace Liu Talk Show" appeared.

People did not expect that ESPN actually played for real! What a show called Decisions really has!

After the opening scene ended, the scene switched to a studio. The first thing that appeared was a double door. Beside the door were two tall and handsome men, one black and one white, standing behind the door in suits and leather shoes, like The same as the two bodyguards.

A big stage, great lighting, an exquisite closed door, and a handsome guy who opens the door!

It looks very tall!

At this time, the music started, and the screen switched to a hot DJ who was twisting his body and playing discs. When he saw the camera facing him, he immediately blew a kiss to the camera.

Even those who believed in this matter did not expect that ESPN actually played it for real! And looking at it like this, it seems to have cost a lot of money!

Just when people were amazed by the scenery, lighting, etc., the beautiful DJ shouted with an excited voice: "Welcome our NBA All-Star Grand Slam star, former Atlanta Hawks superstar, Ace Liu..."

forward?

People in front of the TV were taken aback when they heard this word.

The screen switched to the door. Two handsome men, one black and one white, made a gentleman's salute, and then opened the door.

The spotlight hit the door that had just been opened, and the TV screen was accompanied by applause. After the door was opened, Liu Mang's figure appeared on the TV screen!

Really want to play for real! Just come!

There is not even a publicity, it just came out of nowhere!

Liu Mang came out of the door with a few hand cards, and two handsome doormen walked in and closed the door.

After the camera focused on Liu Mang, Liu Mang's mouth opened fire like a machine gun: "Hi everyone, welcome to watch the new program launched by ESPN TV station, the Ace-Liu talk show aired by the national beverage brand Very Coke. The Si-Liu talk show is sponsored and aired by Nike-Ace Generation, thank you airjordan for your strong support for this show, thank you everyone!"

Then Liu Mang on the TV screen applauded.

It's quite formal! The audience in front of the TV somehow felt that this was quite formal, this guy was really up to something!

Beautiful stage, lighting, professional DJ, even Liu Mang's oral broadcast is so smooth, everything in the opening is perfect.

It's just that Liu Mang's own applause was a bit abrupt at the end. At this time, the screen switched to the auditorium, and there was only one uncle knocking on melon seeds, and it was not an auditorium at all, just a few plastic stools, just that uncle, and there was Scattered newspapers, the newspapers also gave a close-up, with the words "Ace-Liu went to the sea to make gold" written on it.

Seeing the camera facing him, the uncle hurriedly applauded along with Liu Mang on stage.

The painting style changes!

Just now I was still amazed that ESPN spent a lot of money this time. This stage is newly built, and it must have cost a lot of money.

But who knew that the style of the painting changed suddenly, the auditorium was so bleak, and the newspaper with the finishing touch of "fishing for gold in the haystack", some fans who were having breakfast in front of the TV sprayed it directly. Hit that point.

The scene switched to the stage. Liu Mang on the stage seemed embarrassed looking at the empty auditorium, and then immediately "adjusted" his expression.

"Everyone must be very confused and want to ask, Ace, what kind of TV show do you, an NBA player, play, can't you play well?"

"There's nothing I can do about it. The NBA has been in a downturn recently, so I can only come out to earn some extra money."

"Although I am not a professional talk show, I also have my advantages. As a senior NBA professional league participant, I know more inside stories and first-hand news that others don't know. I believe everyone wants to know. ?”

As soon as Liu Mang's opening remarks came out, many people sprayed milk with his bewildering laughter, especially the phrase "senior NBA professional league participant", which made many people spray directly.

"We have already talked about the inside story of the industry, let's get straight to the point! Let me first talk about the first-hand inside story I got!"

Getting straight to the point so quickly? Not to mention, it really made the audience in front of the TV stare at the screen with wide eyes, watching what news Liu Mang was going to release.

On the TV screen, Liu Mang flipped through the cards in his hand, and then his expression became very serious.

The audience in front of the TV also held their breath, seeing Liu Mang's serious expression, is there really any big news to break?

For a moment, the audience forgot that this was an April Fool's program, and they really took what Liu Mang said about breaking the news seriously...

After a few seconds, Liu Mang spoke up: "To reject the information I got from insiders, Kobe Bryant, the second head of the Los Angeles Lakers..."

Speaking of this, Liu Mang made the ending sound very long, and deliberately used the accent on the word "second child".

When Liu Mang mentioned Kobe, many fans who are familiar with Liu Mang already felt bad...

"Kobe Bryant can't accept being the second head of the team. He wants to be the boss, but he is reluctant to leave Los Angeles. At the same time, he is not the opponent of Shaq O'Neal, the strongest center in history. Kobe Bryant has been thinking for a long time. , and finally made the most important decision of his career, to join the Los Angeles Sparks and serve as the head star of the Sparks, fulfilling his dream of being the boss!"

Depend on!

Only then did the audience in front of the TV realize that today is indeed April Fool's Day! This is really a spoof show.

However, instead of losing interest, the audience became even more interested!

From the very beginning, Kobe was sent to the WNBA. It was such a crazy thing at the beginning, what's next?

The audience is looking forward to it!

Someone in Los Angeles threw the remote control directly at the TV, but if the boss can throw things accurately, he is not the boss. The perfect remote control slides past the TV perfectly at such a short distance...

The TV screen continued.

"I wish Kobe a perfect career, he will definitely become the first person in history, but only in the WNBA."

"The next news is about the Spurs who are now No. 1 in the league."

People were looking forward to who Liu Mang would spoof next, but they didn't expect that it would be the Spurs, a team that had already been expelled from the NBA.

People are curious, what can the Spurs have to say about this boring team?

"Spurs star Tim Duncan has suffered disastrous defeats in the playoffs for three consecutive years and was defeated by O'Neal for two consecutive years. He has lost confidence in his basketball career and is ready to join the entertainment industry. As a comedian, he found Some photos of my own smile were sent over, I don’t know if he was selected by the TV station, but I got those photos he sent..."

Then the TV screen switched to Duncan's various obscene smiles on the NBA field...

And a collection of Duncan's various neglected images...

The audience was stunned. They really couldn't think of any place where Duncan could be hacked. They didn't expect Liu Mang to hack Duncan from such a tricky angle. Moreover, the audience never thought that the one who was stunned purely by strength was in the Spurs team. Such a team has become a popular superstar Duncan has such a side.

The audience is more and more curious, who is next!

"When it comes to the number one player in the basketball world, we have to mention Jordan. What I admire most about Jordan is his draft vision..."

Next, Liu Mang made fun of Jordan, Francis, Iverson, Carter, Tracy McGrady...even his teammates and his compatriot Yao Ming. The ratings have been at a peak, surpassing the NBA in the past few years. The ratings of the finals!

The 10-minute talk show time is over, and the audience in front of the TV has doubts from the beginning to the end, and they still have more to say!

"Happy time always flies by quickly, and I want to say goodbye to everyone here. The theme of the next program is "NBA Players' Private Lives". The next program will be broadcast on February 29, 2003 , it is still live broadcast across the United States, everyone will see you soon."

Then the screen went black with a "sigh", and a line of subtitles appeared: Goodbye by fate.

The audience didn't realize it for a while. After the show was over, the screen switched back to the normal ESPN sports icon, and the advertisements started, and people realized that the 29th of February came! And February 2003 has already passed!

...

New York Hilton Hotel, Liu Mang finished watching his performance on TV, and the battery of the mobile phone next to him has been pulled out. After the TV show started, Kobe, Jordan, Duncan, McGrady... began to bombard him with phone calls and text messages , Liu Mang decisively pulled out the battery...

This show was scheduled a while ago, so how can we not do something for such a big festival! What's more, there are designated tasks issued by the system.

Although there are only 5,000 superstar points, but there is a lot of meat, and you can also promote Coca-Cola, which you endorse, in the United States.

The program was recorded yesterday afternoon at the ESPN New York branch. It was unedited. When blacking out those stars, Liu Mang was so eloquent. The director was reluctant to cut any frame. The 10-minute video Basically all released.

Just when Liu Mang was quite satisfied with his TV debut and perhaps his only performance, the door of the room was knocked loudly.

"I'm going!" Liu Mang rang at this time, the phone battery was pulled out, and he could escape the phone bombardment of the stars of other teams, but he still had a group of teammates staying in the hotel!

(Because I am not good at it, this chapter is free)