Boomer Esiason explains CBS blunder during AFC Championship

One-time NFL Most Valuable Player Boomer Esiason was at the desk and explained during Monday's edition of the WFAN "Boomer and Gio" show what went wrong. 

"I’m always glad I have to be the one who answers these things…since I’m here every Monday after the AFC Championship Game, when something goes awry, I have to answer it," Esiason said, per Ryan Chichester of Audacy. "As I was told, when we do these shows on the sidelines, there are about 100 different wires leading to so many different things, and believe it or not, I was told that somebody tripped over a wire and pulled the electric out of the socket to the lightbox."

Sean Keeley of Awful Announcing noted that Esiason and company did their best to handle what was a difficult situation for multiple reasons until the lights resumed working before the halftime show turned things over to commentators Jim Nantz and Tony Romo:  

"Not only did we not have lights, we didn’t have electric to our monitors," Esiason revealed on Monday morning. "As we’re speaking over what was supposed to be the highlights of the first half that we never saw…when we came back, you couldn’t see (host James Brown)." 

According to the Barrett Sports Media website, Esiason added during Monday's show segment that the setback for halftime of Sunday's contest "was hilarious." 

One wonders if CBS executives fail to see any humor regarding what occurred at M&T Bank Stadium considering the network has the broadcast rights for the Super Bowl LVIII matchup between the Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 11. 

"Because of the amount of wires and you have all sorts of tarps on the sidelines -- you have things covering wires -- you could see how it could happen, and it happened," Esiason said about Sunday's technical difficulties. "What can I tell you? I don’t know. It was live TV -- you’ve just got to go through it; you’ve just got to slam right through it."

CBS now has roughly two weeks to do anything and everything necessary to ensure such an issue doesn't take place in front of a worldwide audience on the second Sunday of February.