--- description: "There's a lot of action on the field." title: See Conan O'Brien's Take on 'Star Wars' Fans Playing Football image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See Conan O'Brien's Take on _Star Wars_ Fans Playing Football by [Dylan Kickham / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Dylan Kickham / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 21, 2015 6:12 PM CUT by [Dylan Kickham / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Dylan Kickham / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 21, 2015 6:12 PM CUT Luke, I am your running back. In light of the somewhat perplexing decision to release [the new ](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/19/star-wars-force-awakens-final-trailer "undefined")[_Star Wars: The Force Awakens_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/19/star-wars-force-awakens-final-trailer "undefined") trailer during Monday Night Football this week, [Conan O’Brien](http://www.ew.com/topic/conan-obrien "undefined") took it upon himself to imagine what the typical _Star Wars_ fan would actually look like playing football. In the clip, fans dressed as Darth Maul, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Boba Fett, and several other characters from the _Star Wars_ franchise try their best to get down the rules of football. It starts out with hitting a basketball around with lightsabers, eventually turning into playing with an actual football that is still in its original packaging. Princess Leia and Darth Maul both get very caught up in the game, as evidenced by their over-exuberant touchdown celebrations, but C-3PO would rather sit on the field and [try to decode that trailer](http://www.ew.com/gallery/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trailer "undefined"). The clip highlights the bizarre demographic choice for ABC to air the new _Star Wars_ trailer during a football game. It seems to go against the stereotypes that every high school movie sets up: the jocks and the nerds are enemies. But with ticket sales for _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ [breaking sales records and crashing websites](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/20/star-wars-ticket-sales "undefined"), more than a few football fans are clearly also Jedi wannabes. Hey Conan, maybe for the next video we can see football fans going to the _Star Wars_ premiere? I mean, Darth Maul is pretty much sporting the face paint football fans love so much already. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/21/conan-star-wars-fans-play-football "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4081856/star-wars-fan-football-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4081856/star-wars-fan-football-video/"},"headline":"See Conan O'Brien's Take on Star Wars Fans Playing Football","datePublished":"2015-10-21T18:12:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:58:31.298Z","description":"\"There's a lot of action on the field\"","url":"https://time.com/4081856/star-wars-fan-football-video/","keywords":["Television","movies","Football","Star Wars topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dylan Kickham / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4081856/star-wars-fan-football-video/","name":"See Conan O'Brien's Take on Star Wars Fans Playing Football"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer","description":"Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/UyGxWpXw/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-10-20T02:40:51.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UyGxWpXw.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4081856/star-wars-fan-football-video/","duration":"PT2M35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4081856/star-wars-fan-football-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```