Dan Patrick has been added to NBC's Sunday Night Football team. Who is he replacing? Nobody. He is being added.

Watching this show is seizure-inducing enough as it is with the 22 people already in place, and the brain trust at NBC decides to add someone else. Someone who, to my knowledge, has never even participated in an NFL broadcast. I like Patrick okay as a studio host, but I already have Bob Costas. Oh, and Keith Olbermann. Why don't we just throw Joe Buck, Kenny Mayne, Bob Barker, Brent Musberger and Howard Cosell in there as well? If you're an NBC executive, the answer is: Howard Cosell is dead.

Here is my solution:
Costas=gone (my favorite announcer possibly ever, but simply doesn't care too much about football)
Tiki Barber=gone (a world-class vindictive douche)
Collinsworth=lead analyst (the c0-best in the biz with Tom Jackson)
Patrick=host (in all reality I think Costas or him would be fine, if Bob wants it he gets it)
Jerome Bettis=Michael Irvin (more ludicrous if this is what people want)
Olbermann=gone (and as everyone who reads this knows, I'm a huge fan)
Peter King=gone (and replaced with Sal Pal)
Anyone else that obviously aren't significant enough for me to remember=gone (I'm sure there are at least three in this category)

I thought Jason Whitlock summed this all up pretty well here.

In the meantime, I'm going to try to avoid Football Night in America until the actual football game, where at least I can be soothed by Al Michaels and John Madden. (Sarcasm)

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...since we've had some good ESPN hatin' around here. I don't have anything new to add, but columnist Jason Whitlock--who I'm a big fan of anyway--does:

5. The best thing about ESPN host Dana Jacobson's meltdown at the Mike and Mike roast is that it proves beyond a reasonable doubt that women can be just as publicly stupid and vulgar as men.

Jacobson, in a drunken attempt at humor, F-bombed Notre Dame and Jesus. ESPN suspended the "First Take" host for a week. You drop a woman in ESPN's locker-room environment and "surprisingly" she acts just like Sean Salisbury and everyone else. Personally I like Salisbury. The trouble he got into at ESPN for showing off his manhood reminded me of my college playing days when everyone would rush to get naked when the cleaning lady ran late tidying our locker room.

The second-best thing about Jacobson's rant is that it drew attention to the lame Mike and Mike roast. ESPN desperately wants you to believe Greenberg and Golic are big stars. They're not. If they were, they wouldn't have an F-list celebrity/assclown like Jacobson roasting them.

The next time Greenberg or Golic say something insightful or provocative will be the first time.

Well, that about sums it up. I'm just glad we're not the only ones who notice this shit.

Labels: Dana Jacobson, ESPN sucks, Jason Whitlock, Mike and Mike in the Morning