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ESPN Dumping Boomer for NFL (1 Viewer)

Binky The Doormat

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Watching now.  For all you Chris Berman haters - he is out for hosting the NFL Countdown, etc.  Sounds like he will appear occasionally and do a little baseball.  He isn't anywhere to be found on the tribute they are giving him.  I can't imagine this is his idea.  

 
Would have thought Berman was untouchable over there. Surprising.

I've watched very little ESPN over the last several years ... what kind of winds are blowing over there that would make this possible?

 
Oh no.  What will I do without "The Swami's" picks?

He should have been gone 15 years ago. 

 
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He transitioned from bearable to uncomfortable out of touch creep about 10 years ago if not before. Finally. 

 
Doug B said:
Would have thought Berman was untouchable over there. Surprising.

I've watched very little ESPN over the last several years ... what kind of winds are blowing over there that would make this possible?
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Not so much, really. Although there had been no official announcement before this, anonymous sources since Sept. had been saying that 2016 was his last year at ESPN doing what traditionally he had been doing. And Berman himself acknowledged it in a December interview:

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/sports-media/2016/12/chris-berman-on-espn-future-things-will-probably-change/

Chris Berman on ESPN future: ‘Things will probably change’

By Pete Dougherty, Staff writer on December 28, 2016 at 11:13 AM

Chris Berman, the signature voice at ESPN since its inception in 1979, indicated Wednesday that he isn’t likely to be in his present roles at the network too much longer.

In an interview Wednesday morning on “Big Board Sports” on WTMM (104.5 FM), Berman, when asked by co-hosts Rodger Wyland and Zach Bye how much longer he would continue, replied. “Well, probably in the capacity that you’re seeing, not very much longer, but … I’m not going anywhere yet. I’m only 61, or I’ll be 62 in the spring. I love what I do, and I think I’m OK at it still. I enjoy hanging out with people that enjoy watching sports, whether it’s in person or it’s through the TV spring. We’ll see what happens after this year, Things will probably change. I’m not going away

 
squistion said:
Doug B said:
Would have thought Berman was untouchable over there. Surprising.

I've watched very little ESPN over the last several years ... what kind of winds are blowing over there that would make this possible?
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Not so much, really. Although there had been no official announcement before this, anonymous sources since Sept. had been saying that 2016 was his last year at ESPN doing what traditionally he had been doing. And Berman himself acknowledged it in a December interview:

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/sports-media/2016/12/chris-berman-on-espn-future-things-will-probably-change/

Chris Berman on ESPN future: ‘Things will probably change’

By Pete Dougherty, Staff writer on December 28, 2016 at 11:13 AM

Chris Berman, the signature voice at ESPN since its inception in 1979, indicated Wednesday that he isn’t likely to be in his present roles at the network too much longer.

In an interview Wednesday morning on “Big Board Sports” on WTMM (104.5 FM), Berman, when asked by co-hosts Rodger Wyland and Zach Bye how much longer he would continue, replied. “Well, probably in the capacity that you’re seeing, not very much longer, but … I’m not going anywhere yet. I’m only 61, or I’ll be 62 in the spring. I love what I do, and I think I’m OK at it still. I enjoy hanging out with people that enjoy watching sports, whether it’s in person or it’s through the TV spring. We’ll see what happens after this year, Things will probably change. I’m not going away
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Would have guessed that he was older than 61.

 
Too bad he isn't taking Gruden with him.  I might have been able to watch MNF with the sound on again.  Oh well.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
Watching now.  For all you Chris Berman haters - he is out for hosting the NFL Countdown, etc.  Sounds like he will appear occasionally and do a little baseball.  He isn't anywhere to be found on the tribute they are giving him.  I can't imagine this is his idea.  
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In before the announcement that he's now doing every Sunday and Monday night baseball game on ESPN. !!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Doug B said:
Would have thought Berman was untouchable over there. Surprising.

I've watched very little ESPN over the last several years ... what kind of winds are blowing over there that would make this possible?
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ESPN might be out of business in a decade once hemorrhaging subscribers combined with skyrocketing costs for bad NFL games finally catches up with them. Old, expensive dudes have got to go.

 
Stopped watching once it went beyond him and Tom Jackson reporting the Sunday highlights. When the internet wasn't there yet these two were God Sends for the rest of us. If your guy didn't get mentioned or put up in the Leaders section you were pretty sure they didn't do squat outside PPR. 

 
squistion said:
Not so much [surprising], really. Although there had been no official announcement before this, anonymous sources since Sept. had been saying that 2016 was his last year at ESPN doing what traditionally he had been doing. And Berman himself acknowledged it in a December interview ...
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Yeah ... I guess for me, ESPN is kind of frozen in time. I still think of it as the same network I was watching late-80s through mid-90s. For my money, Chris Berman back then was money on NFL coverage and the NFL draft. Never really saw/heard Berman hate anywhere ever until ~2000. Maybe for some, he was self-parody by then. Or else people that first saw him in the late 90s/early 2000s didn't give him the slack he had earned with older viewers for his earlier work.

 
It's about time.

Now, dump Screaming A. Smith, too, and then I can maybe think about taking them seriously again.  Maybe. 

 
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