As a matter of educated fact, the last time either show made any worth-hearing noise was when CBS’ version was off the air. After a 1980 show, Brent Musburger and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder went at it in a Manhattan bar.
You see it all game, every game. It’s like the thanks-for-nothing, “They move the chains,” replacing the useful “first down” and the yardage gained. It’s tired, repetitive and poorly designed to sound hip.
Similarly, on Thursday, in exchange for a staggering $375 million in big-name guess money, Fox again force-fed Tom Brady to the nation, placing him on the Giants-Cowboys Thanksgiving Day telecast.
After rising, Baker Mayfield immediately, as if rehearsed, began to perform a classless, bad-winner mockery of something-string Giants QB Tommy DeVito and his media-enriched stereotype by making double paisano finger gestures.
Bob Nehwart left us one college football season too soon. In one of his famous one-way phone conversations, he’d have had great, satirical fun with what this season has become.
