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Keith Olbermann to Co-Host NBC's 'Football Night in America'

Apr 16, 2007 – 6:34 PM
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Michael David Smith

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NBC's Football Night in America, the hour-long highlight show that precedes the network's Sunday Night Football broadcasts, will have a new co-host this season. Keith Olbermann joins the cast alongside Bob Costas, reporter Peter King and analysts Cris Collinsworth, Jerome Bettis and Tiki Barber.

I like all those guys and I'm glad Olbermann is joining the show. On the other hand, doesn't there come a point when you start to think you're getting too much of a good thing? Will six insightful, articulate people going over the day's NFL storylines be twice as good as three people? I don't think so. I think there's a strong risk that the six of them will trip over each other and battle for face time. I'd hate to see Football Night in America turn into Around the Horn.

I hope Olbermann finds his place within that crowded cast by taking jabs at the NFL for the way it often takes itself too seriously. In all off his jobs, Olbermann has shown he has the guts to speak truth to power. The NFL could use more commentators like that.
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