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METALLICA: 'This Is SportsCenter' Bloopers Posted Online

July 19, 2014

A collection of bloopers from METALLICA's appearance in the latest ESPN "This Is SportsCenter" ad can be seen below.

The final commercial, which debuted on Monday night (July 14) during this year's All-Star Home Run Derby, plays off the idea that the band members don't know what to do with themselves since Yankees star reliever Mariano Rivera retired last season and took his "Enter Sandman" entrance music with him — so the band begins a desperate search for something else to do.

Drummer Lars Ulrich said, "Sometimes it can be quite freeing to put yourself at the mercy of others. ESPN's commercials have a tendency to be hilarious. We were like, 'That sounds like a good time.' The whole thing had an overriding impulsivity to it."

The long-running series of comical "This Is SportsCenter" ads promote ESPN's "SportsCenter" sports news show.

The commercials, which debuted in 1994, are presented in a deadpan mockumentary style, lampooning various aspects of sports and sports broadcasting.

60-year-old NFL analyst John Clayton starred in 2012's popular ESPN "This Is SportsCenter" commercial that purported to reveal that he actually rocked a gnarly ponytail, headbanged to SLAYER and still lived with his mother.

After completing a recent European festival run, METALLICA has just one show on its calendar for the rest of 2014, at the Heavy MTL festival in Montreal on August 9.

The band is slated to enter the studio and begin recording its 10th studio album this fall.

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