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From: mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford)
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Subject: Re: bring back (gulp!) cosell??
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 12:51:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 12:51:33 1985
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> > In article <318@ihdev.UUCP> rjv@ihdev.UUCP (R. J. Vaughn) writes:
> > >
> > >is it just me, or is the combo of broadway joe, oj simpson and
> > >frank gifford the worst in football broadcasting??  
> > >and to top it off, i LIKE gifford!  so what can you conclude?
> > >any comments??
>
> Just do what everybody else is doing. Turn the sound down on TV and the
> sound up on CBS radio. I haven't listened to a Monday night game yet
> (been busy working) so I don't know if Hank Stram is still on the radio,
> but he is informative, light on stats and definetly(sp) NOT BORING. 
> 
> I grew up listening to Univ of Illinois on radio and the games always
> seem more exciting on radio.
> 
> 					 Bob Nebert

It seems that CBS Radio has dropped the Mon. Football broadcasts.  Hank Stram
and Jack Buck can be found on CBS TV, doing one of the many regional NFL games.
I think NBC has picked up the radio broadcasts, because here in the Chicago 
area, the game can be found on WMAQ (670 AM), Don Criquy (SP?) and Bob Trumpy
doing the game.  They also do regionally televised games for NBC.

Mike Royko, a popular newspaper columnist for the Chicago Tribune, addressed
the issue of Joe Namath being difficult to understand.  He said that Namath
is speaking "yuppie-billy", kind of a down-home, good ol' boy dialect that
some yuppies employ so they don't sound pretentious.  Royko spoke with a
person from Namath's hometown, and this person said that none of them sound
like Namath.  It was, as usual, an entertaining Royko column.

Mike Clifford