Before she made headlines by snapping back at Andy Rooney's 2002 sputterings about how women had "no business" talking about football, and long before Joe Namath — drunk and slurry, in a sideline moment preserved for all time by thousands of YouTube downloads — declared that he wanted to kiss her, Suzy Kolber was a little girl in love with football. She remembers being 8 years old, in suburban Philadelphia, mesmerized by Howard Cosell's Monday-night halftime highlights. She made national headlines when she was 10, one of the first girls to make a boy's football
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Before she made headlines by snapping back at Andy Rooney's 2002 sputterings about how women had "no business" talking about football, and long before Joe Namath — drunk and slurry, in a sideline moment preserved for all time by thousands of YouTube downloads — declared that he wanted to kiss her, Suzy Kolber was a little girl in love with football. She remembers being 8 years old, in suburban Philadelphia, mesmerized by Howard Cosell's Monday-night halftime highlights. She made national headlines when she was 10, one of the first girls to make a boy's football
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Question: I can't believe you auditioned for a television pilot! What show did you go out for?
Answer: It's a new TV Guide Channel show called Square Off and it's essentially to the TV biz what AMC's Sunday Morning Shootout is to the film biz. I auditioned for one of the two host slots that ended up going to Variety's Brian Lowry and The Hollywood Reporter's Andrew Wallenstein. But I'm not bitter. Yes I am. Really, I'm not. Yes, I am. Just being considered for such a project was a major victory. That's a load of horse crap. And I knew it was a long shot. It was mine to lose. The logistics alone — I live in the Big Apple and the show is taped in L.A. — would have been a nightmare. I would've relocated in a New York minute. So, I figured, worst-case scenario, for three weeks I'd get to go around bragging, "I'm flying to L.A. to audition for a pilot!" It was
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