I’ve always felt that I’m in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.
AL MICHAELSIt’s funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they’re always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
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And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my – the tonal quality, with getting excited.
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The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
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When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something.
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It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.
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I always believe in miracles.
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Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.
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I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.
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We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don’t know what a firestorm is.
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People didn’t know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.
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And if there aren’t any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.
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I think that’s worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.
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There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.
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You want the lyrics to match the melody, because if you are composing a song or recording a song, it’s cacophonous if they don’t match.
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It’s the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print.
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You heard it here first!’ Who cares? That’s nothing but a vanity play. If it’s not right, it’s garbage.
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