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NBC has announced that Dan Patrick will join the cast of Football Night in America, where he will team up with his old SportsCenter partner Keith Olbermann to handle highlights of all the Sunday afternoon games.
“We are proud to reunite one of the greatest teams in the history of sports broadcasting,” NBC Sports head Dick Ebersol said in a statement. “Dan and Keith were more than successful together, they defined the way that sports highlights are now delivered. Their unique delivery has been sorely missed and now they’ll be able to take their act to a primetime network television audience each Sunday night in the fall.”
Football Night in America will continue to be hosted by Bob Costas with commentary from Cris Collinsworth, Jerome Bettis and Tiki Barber, and reporting from Peter King.
Patrick and Olbermann teamed up on SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. Patrick will continue to write for Sports Illustrated and host The Dan Patrick Show on the radio.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Too bad they didnt replace Peter King with Patrick, Peter King is a worthless bobblehead for the Patriots, and the east coast in general.
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I agree humbolts. SNF > MNF, and Olbermann is the man.
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
good move nbc.I like it.
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Theismann is more knowledgeable than Olbermann what is these networks thinking??? oh yea its regular t.v. NOT direct t.v. that’s why I don’t watch regular pregame show they suck!!! fox is a little better than CBS but that is a given!!! Give it up CBS your sports pre game & post game coverage suck!!! & keeping Olberman in there is proof!!!
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Anything with Olberman in it should be filed under “turd watch”. I absolutely hate that arrogant @!#. SNF has a great crew with the one exception. I only watched one SNF pregame show last year, and Olberman was calling Travis Johnson “the worst person in the NFL” (after Trent ‘Scarecrow’ Green put a helmet in his knee), which is a play off of his news show “Worst person in America” segment. All the other announcers seemed very uncomfortable afterwards. What a ‘tard. MNF announcers suck too, but Olberman is King of craptastic.
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
I used to like Olberman. The guy is an idiot. He should’ve stayed in sports and no one would know that he is out of touch with reality.
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
what are olberman’s ratings at msnbc? like less than 100,000 people out of 300 million?? yeah adding him should pick up the ratings. what a jerk-off. they don’t call him “dick” ebersol for nothing
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Return of The Big Show.
This absolutely rules.
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Very well put, SamH…
The show is boring. It’s the only coverage on that late so if the game is any good, I might watch it. Tiki was interesting for a minute, but now he’s sort of yesterday’s news.
But Olberman on the show is not an enhancement to me. He’s a snot!
F2B
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July 7th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
watchthisjack says:
” If there is one thing that I can say about Keith Olbermann and NBC its that they never mix partisan politics with the purity of football. ”
good one!!
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July 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Yeah, I’m really looking forward to intellectually honest and objective football analysis from a guy that called our fine young men and women in the military “cold-blooded killers” and “war criminals” - and then denied ever saying it.
I like Dan Patrick, but Olbermann leaves a lot to be desired as far as human beings go.
Should be great! Someone will have to tell me how it turns out.
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July 7th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Keith Olbermann: the only announcer who can rival Bryant Gumbel for dullness and ego…and for no apparent reason in the latter case.
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July 7th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Patrick and Costas, Limbaugh and Olbermann…what next?…Lanny Davis and Karl Rove! Olbermann surely ranks as one of the most nauseas, disgusting, over-rated, over-inflated asses on TV. I thought he was an a-hole when he was a sports commentator; now that he has falsely-assumed the mantle of Edward R Murrow, he is just another f–ing twit.
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July 7th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Cornell-educated Keith and Ohio-bread Dan…about the only thing I like about this pairing
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July 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
olberman is just a wanna-be and baby who needs attention. and nbc wonders why they continually fail in news ratings. they’ll just never get it. dumb move keeping him but what would you expect.
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July 7th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
What’s the over/under on how long it takes before Olbermann takes the chance to bitch about Bill O’Reilly?
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Like I said… Olberman’s a snot!!!
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
With Patrick and Olberman all NBC need is 2 bottles of vinegar and two bottles of water.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I wonder if Vegas will take betting on how many times the pregame show does free ads for the Obamessiah and how many times it rips McCain?
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
No matter how many people they jam pack in this show, it won’t change one thing - Football Night in America is no NFL Primetime. I am not a huge fan of Tom Jackson, but ESPN had it right with him and Chris Berman running down all the games with Berman doing the play by play and Jackson throwing in his thoughts.
Football Night in America is a mess with too many “analysts” most of whom really have nothing to say and two guys who don’t get “it” in Costas in Olbermann running down the highlights.
I don’t neccessarily agree with Olbermann’s politics and I think he is pretty santicmonious on his own show, but the reason I hate him on Football Night in America is because of his straight delivery with no real emotion of passion.
Costas is too dry for football and should stick to baseball.
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
“Too bad they didnt replace Peter King with Patrick, Peter King is a worthless bobblehead for the Patriots, and the east coast in general.”
Funny, Pats fans hate King because he has been too anti-Patriots and Bill Belichick. Rumors are that he is persona non-grata in the Patriots organization because of his one sided reporting and comentary on Spygate.
Hey Mike, you know how it feels to be hated by both the Patriots fan and their haters too? Don’t you?
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:53 am
I wonder if FOX ever considered putting Bill O’Reilly in the sports booth. It’s probably not a good idea, he might ask Laura Bowden to take a shower with him and a loofa sponge on a Caribbean vacation.
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July 8th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Only an arrogant fuk like Olbermann would go back into NFL reporting after that royal stink bomb he laid last year.
Fuk…..at least Gumble was smart enough to fade away.
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July 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Olberman is so brazenly lunatic, extreme left-wing that he no longer has any credibility whether he is reporting news or sports.
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Meh, get rid of the bus and tiki and replace them with Deion Sanders and Boomer and we got a show. Those two were great together on the CBS NFL pre-show.
Embrace the hate in ‘08
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