musburger stepping down to start a sports handicapping bidness

rodmansrage

im surprised you're surprised

Musburger, who is 77, said he's leaving active sportscasting to help his family get a sports handicapping business started and to use some of the millions of airline miles he's earned for some fun travel.

His last game will be the Kentucky-Georgia men's basketball game on Jan. 31.

GrundleStiltzkin

DerekJohnson

He and Herbie were a great tandem

PurpleThrobber

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HuskyJW

That whole story doesn't sound odd at all.

Baseman

Sad: Hank Stramm. Curt Gowdy. Pat Summerall. Keith Jackson. Verne Lundquist. And now, Musburger. All, once lions in the booth; today, dead or retired.

Only Nessler, McDonough, and Fowler stand in the way of the inevitable Gus Johnson and Marc Jones oligopoly.

Sad. Sad... Sad, indeed.

PurpleThrobber

Baseman said:

Sad: Hank Stramm. Curt Gowdy. Pat Summerall. Keith Jackson. Verne Lundquist. And now, Musburger. All, once lions in the booth; today, dead or retired.

Only Nessler, McDonough, and Fowler stand in the way of the inevitable Gus Johnson and Marc Jones oligopoly.

Sad. Sad... Sad, indeed.

No love for Al Michaels?!?!

PurpleJ

Mods?

89ute

Who wants to watch a bunch of gimps roll around playing basketball?

Swaye

89ute said:

Who wants to watch a bunch of gimps roll around playing basketball?

Dozens of people still go to UW basketball games.

AlCzervik

Baseman said:

Sad: Hank Stramm. Curt Gowdy. Pat Summerall. Keith Jackson. Verne Lundquist. And now, Musburger. All, once lions in the booth; today, dead or retired.

Only Nessler, McDonough, and Fowler stand in the way of the inevitable Gus Johnson and Marc Jones oligopoly.

Sad. Sad... Sad, indeed.

ISAFNRC

Baseman

PurpleThrobber said:

Baseman said:

Sad: Hank Stramm. Curt Gowdy. Pat Summerall. Keith Jackson. Verne Lundquist. And now, Musburger. All, once lions in the booth; today, dead or retired.

Only Nessler, McDonough, and Fowler stand in the way of the inevitable Gus Johnson and Marc Jones oligopoly.

Sad. Sad... Sad, indeed.

No love for Al Michaels?!?!

Al's ok. Not my cup of tea. I can't stand listening to Chris Collinsworth- that might have something to do with it. Just MO.

dnc

This thread is worthless without @RavennaDawg

Fenderbender123

If there's one thing that really pisses me off about Collinsworth, it's that his name is spelled "Cris" instead of "Chris". Other than that, he's easily the best commentator in all of football.

TierbsHsotBoobs

SECOND DOWN AND 9

RaceBannon

Musburger is one of those guys that was on the TV when I was a kid and looked like an adult when he must have been about 16 when he started on NFL Today.

He got his gambling jones honestly, doing a show with Jimmy the Greek for all those years.

He has a big game voice. When he got demoted to the SEC Network he made Vanderbilt Kentucky sound like the CFP final

I'll miss him

Kaepsknee

Baseman said:

Sad: Hank Stramm. Curt Gowdy. Pat Summerall. Keith Jackson. Verne Lundquist. And now, Musburger. All, once lions in the booth; today, dead or retired.

Only Nessler, McDonough, and Fowler stand in the way of the inevitable Gus Johnson and Marc Jones oligopoly.

Sad. Sad... Sad, indeed.

Joe Tessitore will save you.

RaceBannon

salemcoog said:

Baseman said:

Sad: Hank Stramm. Curt Gowdy. Pat Summerall. Keith Jackson. Verne Lundquist. And now, Musburger. All, once lions in the booth; today, dead or retired.

Only Nessler, McDonough, and Fowler stand in the way of the inevitable Gus Johnson and Marc Jones oligopoly.

Sad. Sad... Sad, indeed.

Joe Tessitore will save you.

He's good

Fowler is good. He started out as the high school sports guy on early ESPN when he was about 16.

Pitchfork51

Fenderbender123 said:

If there's one thing that really pisses me off about Collinsworth, it's that his name is spelled "Cris" instead of "Chris". Other than that, he's easily the best commentator in all of football.

Because hes a mean spirited dickhead.

He's awesome.

SpoonieLuv

I always thought of him as the poor mans Keith Jackson and moles on his face made me uneasy.

Will not be missed.

jecornel

http://www.thescore.com/ncaab/news/1216900

Good link on mussy