Dan Patrick Joins NBC's Football Night in America
Two major NFL-related TV announcements came down Monday. Ex-ESPN anchor
Dan Patrick is joining NBC's
Football Night in America pregame studio show as co-host. He will reteam with his former
SportsCenter deskmate Keith Olbermann. "I'm delighted to be reunited with my tag team partner," Olbermann said, and in an homage to a favorite
SportsCenter catchphrase, "I can't stop Dan Patrick from working with me again, I can only hope to contain him."
Patrick
left ESPN last summer after 18 years with the company. He continues to host his eponymous radio show and write a column for
Sports Illustrated.
Meanwhile, over at
Inside the NFL, which is
moving to Showtime from HBO, James Brown,
Phil Simms and
Cris Collinsworth were named cohosts. Brown and Simms will continue their work for CBS (which owns Showtime), as host of
The NFL Today and lead game analyst, respectively. Collinsworth is a holdover from the HBO incarnation, and will remain on the
Football Night in America panel and as analyst for the NFL Network's
Thursday Night Football. (On
FNA, Collinsworth, Olbermann and Patrick all share the title "co-host," while Bob Costas is the "host.")
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