No red carpet, no nattily dressed athletes, no house band or monologue poking fun at the past year’s top athletes and moments.
NFL quarterback Russell Wilson, along with soccer star Megan Rapinoe and WNBA star Sue Bird, hosted the pre-produced show remotely from their respective homes in Seattle. Each wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts to open the show, and touched on the lives of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, who were killed by police, as well as the life of Ahmaud Arbery. Three men, including a former police officer, are charged in Arbery's death.
"This is the time we've got to have their backs," Rapinoe said of Black athletes.