Monday Night Football

"Monday Night Football" is the 14th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on February 5, 2007. The episode was written by Carter Bays, and Craig Thomas. It was rated 5.4 out of 10 by Staci Krause of IGN. Plot For Ted's favorite holiday, Super Bowl Sunday, he and the gang plan to continue their tradition of watching it together with hot wings. The plans are cut short when they find out a worker at the bar has died, and they reluctantly agree to attend the funeral, out of fear that they will be banned from the bar. The funeral starts at the same time as Super Bowl XLI, so they tape it figuring they will watch it afterwards. The wake lasts too long and they run out of time to watch the game. They plan to not find out the score of the game until they watch it together the next day. Ted decides to work at home so no one can tell him the score while Barney handcuffs himself to Ted's wall, so he cannot find out the score, because he has bet a lot of money on the game. Ted constructs a device (the “Sensory Deprivator 5000”) so he can get the wings and not find out the score while he is in the sports bar. After he gets back, he realizes he must go back to get the dipping sauce. At the same time, Barney escapes from Ted's apartment and tries as hard as he can to find the score of the game. He runs into many people including Emmitt Smith, who have all missed the game, to Barney's frustration. Robin does the best she can to avoid the media by trying to delay the sports news and by covering her ears. When someone asks why she is acting weird, she uses the excuse of her friend dying and how she could not watch the game because she had to go to the funeral.