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Dan Patrick Joins NBC's Football Night in America
Two major NFL-related TV announcements came down Monday. Ex-ESPN anchor Dan Patrick is joining NBC's Football Night in America pregame studio show as co-host. He will reteam with his former SportsCenter deskmate Keith Olbermann. "I'm delighted to be reunited with my tag team partner," Olbermann said, and in an homage to a favorite SportsCenter catchphrase, "I can't stop Dan Patrick from working with me again, I can only hope to contain him."
Patrick left ESPN last summer after 18 years with the company. He continues to host his eponymous radio show and write a column for Sports Illustrated.
Meanwhile, over at Inside the NFL, which is moving to Showtime from HBO, James Brown, Phil Simms and Cris Collinsworth were named cohosts. Brown and Simms will continue their work for CBS (which owns Showtime), as host of The NFL Today and lead game analyst, respectively. Collinsworth is a holdover from the HBO incarnation, and will remain on the Football Night in America panel and as analyst for the NFL Network's Thursday Night Football. (On FNA, Collinsworth, Olbermann and Patrick all share the title "co-host," while Bob Costas is the "host.")
Related:
• Showtime Scoops Up Inside the NFL
• HBO Drops Inside the NFL
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Jul 7, 2008 5:17 PM
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I really haven't been watching the pre-game shows much, and I usually turn down the tv announcers to listen to the local radio guys...as we usually get the bottom feeder broadcasters.
But otherwise...Kewl...I guess.
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Jul 7, 2008 9:07 PM
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Olbermann's a hack.
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Jul 7, 2008 9:46 PM
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En Fuego!!!
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Jul 8, 2008 12:20 AM
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Anything Olbermann's involved in, he makes all about him! If Olbermann's there-count me out!! Will NBC ever learn, they waste a great deal of money on Keith Olbermann?
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Jul 8, 2008 12:01 PM
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Keith Olberman is the living proof that women are the new black! That Olberman can continue to exist on the air with his uncontrolled, unmitigated, misogynist attacks against the likes of Hillary Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Katie Couric, and other noted feminists, that he can inspire countless women to write angry letters and strike enmass against his Countdown show in front of the NBC studios, that he has been so beyond reprach without the mainstream media giving any public notice... is almost display of deep-rooted psychological issues. But, with football, at least he won't have as many opportunities to speak ill of women and dangle his teenage girlfriends.
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Jul 8, 2008 3:53 PM
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Sorry I disagree with all you guys. I LUV Keith Olbermann and will make sure I catch the show.
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Jul 8, 2008 4:00 PM
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Olbermann beat you guys like a rented goalie. The haters probably only know him from his political show and not from his days with Patrick. He and Patrick basically turned me into a SportsCenter fan. SC hasn't quite been the same since they split.
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Jul 9, 2008 1:24 AM
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