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NBC Takes Olbermann Off ‘Football Night In America’
Sports By Brooks ^ | August 5, 2010 | Brooks

Posted on 08/05/2010 5:58:29 PM PDT by C19fan

Multiple media and network television sources confirmed to me Thursday that Keith Olbermann will not appear on NBC’s Football Night In America Sunday evening NFL broadcasts this season. Some members of the FNIA cast and crew were made aware of the news Tuesday at a preseason production meeting in New York City. Afterwards, the cast and crew adjourned to Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees-Blue Jays game.

(Excerpt) Read more at sportsbybrooks.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: keitholbermann; nbc; nfl; olbermann
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To: C19fan

Same here. Football on NBC last year was a non-event for me, on the off chance that this jerkwad -might- be on. Flipping it on was never even a consideration.


41 posted on 08/05/2010 7:01:07 PM PDT by MCH
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To: steelyourfaith

I would never watch because of him... Likewise when they cut to ANY woman during the game, I hit the mute switch. I’m not a sexist. I’m ok with women in almost any other context; just want to keep my football a guy thing.


42 posted on 08/05/2010 7:05:13 PM PDT by joelt
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To: C19fan

Sh!t and fall in it, Keith.


43 posted on 08/05/2010 7:05:59 PM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: C19fan

‘bout time!


44 posted on 08/05/2010 7:06:05 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: C19fan; Perdogg

It’s a start.

Most of that crew isn’t worth a good goddamn. The show’s largely unwatchable.

Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison are worthwhile, IMHO.


45 posted on 08/05/2010 7:20:29 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: C19fan

Praise The Lord.


46 posted on 08/05/2010 7:33:02 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (NYC to Jihadist: WE SURRENDER!)
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To: C19fan

Now, if only they could remove the title from the program, I might be tempted to watch.

‘Football Night In America’ is tacky and corny and stupid.

Why not just a simple “Sunday Night Football”?


47 posted on 08/05/2010 7:54:43 PM PDT by adorno
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To: 4everontheRight; ABG(anybody but Gore); Abbeville Conservative; akorahil; albee; Americanwolf; ...

NFL PING

FReepmail scott says to be added to, or to be taken off the NFL Ping list...
This is a fairly high volume ping list

48 posted on 08/05/2010 8:16:12 PM PDT by Perdogg (Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: Perdogg

49 posted on 08/05/2010 8:26:56 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: adorno
Now, if only they could remove the title from the program, I might be tempted to watch.

'Football Night In America' is tacky and corny and stupid.

Why not just a simple "Sunday Night Football?"

Because NBC was trying to play off of "Hockey Night In Canada."

Canada stops for HNIC -- oops, Hockey Night In Canada -- so NBC wanted America to stop in a similar fashion for FNIA -- oops, Football Night in America.

50 posted on 08/05/2010 9:41:33 PM PDT by ShorelineMike (Constituo, ergo sum.)
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To: counterpunch

Dude. Those cheerleaders are seriously over-dressed.


51 posted on 08/05/2010 10:01:41 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: joelt
...when they cut to ANY woman during the game, I hit the mute switch.

I'm with you on that.

I love women, and give them the respect and space they deserve in all things within the female dominion, but it's irritating to me that every broadcaster now finds it essential to have female sports reporters involved with male-only sports.

52 posted on 08/05/2010 10:08:06 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: C19fan

Now maybe I’ll watch. I e-mailed NBC last year and told them I would boycott Olbie.


53 posted on 08/05/2010 10:28:55 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: C19fan

Good. I won’t watch anything with overbite on it.


54 posted on 08/06/2010 4:12:55 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Perdogg

Good.


55 posted on 08/06/2010 4:24:12 AM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: C19fan
"Not sure how reliable this guy is but I refuse to watch the NBC pre-game show while Olbermann is on it."

Amen FRiend!!

NBC had to notice all the TV's changing channels whenever that jackwad came on the screen.

I shut the TV off or changed the channel EVERY time I saw that freakjob on TV, and I know plenty of other people who did the same thing.

56 posted on 08/06/2010 11:25:14 AM PDT by libs_kma (DEMOCRATS, HOT TAR AND FEATHERS. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED.)
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To: counterpunch
you sexist pig..this is proper cheerleading..

I believe they are doing the "Painful Proctologist Exam" cheer...

57 posted on 08/06/2010 12:36:45 PM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: Windflier

I can’t remember which network, but they used to have the woman reporter’s name up on the graphics for as long as she was talking; so I could hit the mute, and then put the speakers back on when her name was gone. Problem solved!


58 posted on 08/06/2010 4:20:58 PM PDT by joelt
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To: Windflier

I can’t remember which network, but they used to have the woman reporter’s name up on the graphics for as long as she was talking; so I could hit the mute, and then put the speakers back on when her name was gone. Problem solved!


59 posted on 08/06/2010 4:22:30 PM PDT by joelt
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To: scramjet
Fantastic ! It’s safe to watch football again. Now if Brett Favre would just make up his dang mind....

About what, crocs or no crocs?
60 posted on 08/07/2010 6:25:02 AM PDT by WackySam (To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
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