Admit it. You were just settling in to watch Sunday Night Football and were equally as stunned as Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth to see Derek Anderson trotting out there for the first play of the game.
It’s 2016, a primetime NFL game was kicking off, and no one on the Internet or even in the broadcast booth knew why the reigning MVP wasn’t starting the game. It was shades of Thurman Thomas in Super Bowl XXVI. Where was the MVP? Was he sick? Did he lose his helmet? Why wasn’t he on the field?
Because he didn’t wear a tie, it turns out.