We often see some pretty interesting ESPN Halloween costumes, and that continued this year. One of the best came on their college football coverage of West Virginia-Baylor, where Adam Amin, Matt Hasselbeck and Pat McAfee dressed up as characters from 2004’s Anchorman, with McAfee even letting out a full Champ Kind “Whammy!” during the introductions:
Earlier in the day, one of the best studio show gimmicks came from High Noon‘s Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre, who dressed as Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon from Pardon The Interruption:
PARDON THE INTERRUPTION pic.twitter.com/ejCYewplPl
— HIGH NOON (@HIGHNOONonESPN) October 31, 2019
As for PTI, Kornheiser and Wilbon dressed as Chicago Bears’ coach Matt Nagy and Brooklyn Nets’ point guard Kyrie Irving:
Mike and Tony’s boys: Matt Nagy and Kyrie Irving. #Halloween pic.twitter.com/9WKwiEdNtV
— PTI (@PTI) October 31, 2019
Meanwhile, over on Around The Horn:
https://twitter.com/AroundtheHorn/status/1190003005027807232
That Old Town Road bit came with a fun extra video:
https://twitter.com/dallasnews/status/1190010828092792832
On NFL Live, things got a bit more Pixar-y (corporate synergy!):
NFL Live ❌ Toy Story pic.twitter.com/J3szn1iEK3
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) October 31, 2019
And Field Yates went all out with his Gardner Minshew costume, even bringing a hammer:
The only must start QB in Week 9. pic.twitter.com/hrCaLxixqE
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) October 31, 2019
And Katie Nolan dressed as “Jared Goth”:
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jared goth doesn’t know where the sun rises because he’s literally never seen it
Those are some pretty creative costumes. Well played by the ESPN employees involved.

About Andrew Bucholtz
Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.
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