In the end, the “shaggy” ProSieben presenter bursts into tears
In Germany, too, the Super Bowl comes to a highly emotional end. After eleven years, the ProSieben team is saying goodbye to viewers because the NFL rights are now owned by another broadcaster. Christoph “Icke” Dommisch finds special words.
Dhe ProSieben team said goodbye emotionally to the viewers during the last broadcast of the National Football League on the station. At the end of the 57th Super Bowl broadcast, reporter Christoph “Icke” Dommisch faltered before addressing the audience again.
Even during the last words of his colleague Jan Stecker, Dommisch blurted out, he could no longer hold back his tears. He cried.
“It’s been eight really wonderful, wonderful, wonderful years. Football goes on, enjoy this sport,” said Dommisch on Monday morning. “Many people have changed my life by watching this show, by doing this show. I wouldn’t have ended up here if so many people weren’t keen on this show. Because my position wasn’t on television before and I don’t think it was relevant either. And if you hadn’t celebrated like that, I wouldn’t be sitting here today. Then I wouldn’t even be sitting where the laptop is now.”
With his long hair, beard and Brandenburg dialect, Dommisch quickly became the unmistakable face of the unusually casual and flippant football broadcasts on German television. He mainly worked as a sidekick for the commentators during the many breaks in the game. Finally, he also thanked the directors of the show, “who showed a lot of courage in putting such a shaggy man on television. Also Frank Buschmann (former commentator, d.Red.) did a lot for me here in the beginning.”
Who is switching to RTL now?
The ProSiebenSat.1 group took over the reporting from the National Football League in 2012 and initially broadcast the Super Bowl on Sat.1. ProSieben and ProSieben Maxx then showed the NFL. Last year, the RTL Group surprisingly secured an extensive NFL rights package for the coming season. It is considered likely that at least parts of the team will switch to RTL, but nothing is official yet.
“I also wanted to thank you again for the last eight years. You guys out there have changed my life,” said expert Patrick Esume to viewers via Instagram right after the end of the broadcast. “Television career is over, but it’s not bad. See you in the European League of Football.” Esume is a Commissioner in the European League.
“It was my best television time I’ve ever had,” said Stecker in farewell on the show and addressed the team: “I want to add that I really love you, every single one who worked on this show.”
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