John Madden 'Streak': Leonard Shapiro Column

[Oh My!]

Having lived in the DC area for 20 years now, I have grown to appreciate a handful of the sports columnists for the Post & the Times. Leonard Shapiro used to be one of those writers.

I now think the man has lost his mind. Not only has he created a topic by saying Madden has a "streak" as an analyst, but the following sentence appears in today's online Sports section:

"Madden will be replaced in the NBC Sunday night booth this Sunday night by Cris Collinsworth, arguably the best studio football analyst in television who normally serves as the co-host with Bob Costas for NBC's "Football Night in America" Sunday pre-game show."

Cris Collinsworth is 'arguably' nothing. He is absolutely the worst studio football analyst currently employed by any network.

I'm distraught.

[Boz]

Worse than Boomer Esiason? Worse than Keyshawn Johnson? Worse than Joe Theismann?

I don't watch NBC's pre-game coverage, but man, that's pretty frickin' bad.

[dajuan]

I assumed everyone knew that Collinsworth is one of the best football commentators in the game. I really do like him, plus it's a pretty shallow pool of talent.

[njhoya06]

Oct 13, 2008 18:13:27 GMT -5 dajuan said:

I assumed everyone knew that Collinsworth is one of the best football commentators in the game. I really do like him, plus it's a pretty shallow pool of talent.

Agreed on both fronts.

I think Collinsworth is probably the best color guy and best studio guy in football.

[SFHoya99]

Collinsworth is excellent. He took a few years to get going, but unlike most of these guys, he actually worked on his announcing game and improved rapidly. Now he's one of my favorites.

[DanMcQ]

Collinsworth is an arrogant, opinionated Edited who thinks he knows everything about everything. Oh wait, that's Howard Cosell. Never mind.

(Can I say that here?)

[RDF]

Deanna Favre leaving the country for a vacation or something? She better not be-or Brett will be getting swept off his boots by Brokeback Outback. Still waiting to hear if a "Man Love" option has been added to the latest version of his video game--because this man loves him some Bumpkin Boy.

[mchoya]

Oct 13, 2008 16:29:31 GMT -5 Oh My! said:

Cris Collinsworth is 'arguably' nothing. He is absolutely the worst studio football analyst currently employed by any network.

Is he worse than this?: video.aol.com/partner/abcshort/jimmy-kimmel-live-jkl-emmitt-smith-wordsmith/20819-79416