Re: Pat Summerall

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Smyth" <Sportswriter@dejazzd.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: Pat Summerall


> Just watching the game tonight (I must admit, I don't watch a heckuva lot
of
> football games end-to-end), it's painfully obvious Pat Summerall does need
> to retire. He no longer is at the top of his profession and has made quite
a
> few mistakes in the first hour of the telecast alone. Personally, I say
> bring Joe Buck (FOX's baseball announcer and his rumored successor for a
> while now) in to work with Madden.

It has been announced that Summerall will not be on the #1 team with Madden
next year, though Summerall would still like to do games.  I thought that
Joe Buck working with Madden was already announced?

Buck does a good job, but I have had a hard time taking him seriously since
seeing him hug Mark McGwire while live on national TV after McGwire broke
the homerun record.  I know Buck also does the Cardinal games, but even a
sports reporter should restrain from hugging the people they interview.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Main