Boom Goes the Dynamite
You might remember it as Brian Collins sportscast, student sports broadcast fail
“Boom goes the dynamite!”, said over a three-point shot by Fred Jones of the Indiana Pacers
Famous internet fails3 of 11
2005·Early YouTube·fail
A student broadcast whose catchphrase has outlived every memory of the broadcast.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Brian Collins sportscast
- Spread in
- 2005
- Format
- Phrase
- Who or what it shows
- Brian Collins, a student at Ball State University
- What it said
- “Boom goes the dynamite!”, said over a three-point shot by Fred Jones of the Indiana Pacers
- Recorded
- For Ball State’s campus newscast, about a game played on 22 March 2005
- Origin
- Origin not yet established
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A phrase classified under live-television, described as fail.
Why it matteredWhat changed
A student filling in on a campus sports bulletin lost his script, improvised, and reached for a phrase from his own video-game sessions. Within three months he was on national television.
TimelineIn order
- Made
Collins fills in as sportscaster. The teleprompter runs ahead, his printed pages are out of order, and he improvises.1
- Mainstream
He appears on The Late Show with David Letterman.1
- Mainstream
Will Smith says the line at the Academy Awards after stumbling over a word.1
- Came back
Collins is the subject of a “Web Redemption” on the television programme Tosh.0. He says he has not covered sport since 2005.1 What else happened on 24 May
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asHe made the line up on the spot.
ActuallyHe had coined it earlier, playing Mario Kart with his room-mates.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.
No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- Where
- Known on YouTube.
More from 2005You were there
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things