Chris Berman on ESPN after Brett Favre threw his record-breaking 422nd touchdown pass:
"Rooting for Brett Favre is like rooting for America. It just is."
Yeah, hurrah for scruffy pill-popping hillbillies who throw balls down a field.
Chris Berman is a large, annoying blot on the mediascape who has long outlived his usefulness to his network and profession of sports journalism. He just is. He's still clinging onto what made him in the first place, what seems like freaking eons ago: forced nicknames, buddying up to athletes, bellowing puff pieces for the players and the leagues, and avoiding controversy like it's a salad.
NBC's NFL coverage got a gigantic boost with the addition of Keith Olbermann. He was the best thing about ESPN during his years transforming the very face of "Sportscenter" (and left a legacy of egocentric referential anchors in his wake, but in his defense, hardly any of those hacks have his passion for the games or his wit, and also, blame a lot of that on Craig Kilborn as well), and now makes a show led--led!--by Bob Costas watchable.
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