Following Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will broadcast a special episode of the show. To help Colbert get pumped up for the big event, stars of the big game like Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, tight end Greg Olsen, and Broncos linebacker Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware shared some of their best pre-scripted lines secret tips. (It helps, too, that the Super Bowl will be broadcast on CBS, the same network that does Colbert’s show.)
The advice doesn’t start until about halfway through the video — Colbert spends the first couple of minutes mocking Super Bowl media day — but a few of the lines are actually pretty funny.
“I tell my cat that the game is already over and we won. And then I have to go out and win because I can never lie to her,” Olsen said.
“I wear my lucky rabbit’s foot, then I put on my socks and shoes so no one can see one that of my feet is a rabbit’s foot,” said Broncos running back C.J. Anderson.
“I do it for all the dinosaurs who didn’t live long enough to see me play, but I know they’re watching in dinosaur heaven,” Ware said.
Newton sells his “Big Show” advice well, but Ware and Olsen are especially funny. Anderson and Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly might have been given the best individual lines though.
