{"id":123511,"date":"2026-01-19T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:30:19","slug":"snl-spoofs-michael-irvin-celebrating-miami-in-college-football-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123511\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL spoofs Michael Irvin celebrating Miami in College Football Playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Jan. 18, 2026, 10:36 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Michael Irvin&#8217;s limitless energy received the Saturday Night Live treatment this weekend, with the comedy sketch show parodying the Pro Football Hall of Famer for the way he&#8217;s been supporting his alma mater on its way the College Football Playoff national championship game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A University of Miami legend, <a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2026\/01\/08\/michael-irvin-miami-sideline-hurricanes-playoffs\/88087118007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Irvin has been on the sidelines<\/a> of Miami games during the team&#8217;s CFP run, almost serving as a living mascot with the way he&#8217;s played to the crowd, cheered on players and celebrated wins, even <a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2026\/01\/01\/michael-irvin-miami-ohio-state-belt-celebration\/87981871007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">pulling the belt out his pants<\/a> to demonstrate the way the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/miami-fl-hurricanes\/3417\/\" data-autotag=\"a904359f-1ad5-4dab-a3ee-aa2704493931\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Hurricanes<\/a> have been whooping butt. Always a big personality, of course SNL spoofed him.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/s8XWVfjagHY?si=T3P6TlURgfCWmH-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"Weekend Update: Michael Irvin on Miami vs. Indiana College Football Championship - SNL\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/s8XWVfjagHY\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;My resting heart rate is a perfect score: 16,000,&#8221; Kam Patterson said in his imitation of Irvin in a Weekend Update sketch with Michael Che. Nailed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Miami takes on Indiana in the national championship Monday. That&#8217;s the next time we&#8217;ll see the real Irvin cheering on his Hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Jan. 18, 2026, 10:36 a.m. ET Michael Irvin&#8217;s limitless energy received the Saturday Night Live treatment this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,123,125,124,8349,35113,298,2380,9076,299,16690,343,4841,56334,96,16244,61250,300,11005,92,34],"class_list":["post-123511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-accessfree","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sstssportsncaaf","tag-sstsnncaaf","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-tagcollege-football-playoff","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-taglive-comedy","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmiami-hurricanes-football","tag-tagmichael-irvin","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagpro-football-hall-of-fame","tag-tagsaturday-night-live","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtv-shows-programs","tag-taguniversity-of-miami","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}