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“Seven hours of commercial free football,” Scott Hanson says from the set of the NFL RedZone channel every weekend during the NFL season, firing up football fans across the nation.
Hanson has been showing NFL fans “every touchdown from every game” since 2009 when the channel debuted – three years after DirecTV’s Red Zone Channel which broadcast its final show on Sunday thanks to NFL Sunday Ticket moving to YouTube in 2023.
Interestingly, despite how incredible the set of Hanson’s show looks, it’s all fake, as many NFL fans only just learned this past weekend.
Today I learned the NFL Redzone set is just a comically large green room pic.twitter.com/hAUZQM6VYF
— Mike Renner (@mikerenner_) January 6, 2023
That’s right. All those fancy screens and decorations are computer generated.
For those NFL fans who thought the NFL RedZone set was real, this was, as one fan put it, “like when I found out Santa wasn’t real.”
I hate you for sharing this.
— Mark Oldacres (@MarkOldacres) January 7, 2023
“You know like a while ago there used to be this guy called the masked magician and he would expose all of magics secrets… that’s what you did today,” wrote one fan.
My whole life is a lie
— King of Phinland🐬👑 (@KingOfPhinland) January 7, 2023
“I’m luckily going to forget this next season because it has shook me too much,” another fan tweeted.
https://twitter.com/lonestarbait/status/1611530276718493697Many fans, however, just wondered how Scott Hanson has managed to stay sane working seven straight hours in a giant green room for years.
I couldn’t keep sane staring at this for hours 😱
— Candace Martino (@CandaceMartino) January 7, 2023
“I respect him even more now, I think I’d go insane if I had to stand in that green room for that many hours,” another fan tweeted.
“I knew they used a green screen but the entire room being like this and Scott being able to work there is the most impressive thing he does,” someone else commented.
Everyone saying they can’t believe Scott is able to pull this off ask yourself this- If the set isn’t real, Is Scott even real? Woah 🤯
— Dave Boyle (@LentzTrailBoyle) January 7, 2023
Back in 2014, Scott Hanson said to Grantland about working for NFL RedZone, “A seven-hour show with no breaks, I sleep in a hyperbaric chamber from Sunday to Wednesday, and then a massage, acupuncture. It’s completely exhausting. I’m fried at the end of the day.”
He also, at least on the day of that interview, doesn’t take any bathroom breaks.