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Thursday, July 24, 2008 --- 78 days ago http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2008/07/dan-patrick-keith-olbermann
| When the huge team of analysts assembles for a new season of "Sunday Night Football" this fall, it will include the reunion of one of the best-loved teams from the old ESPN, when Dan Patrick joins Keith Olbermann to do the day's football highlights. Patrick, facing reporters at press tour, said "we are just going to sit in the back of the studio, and it's like being in the back of the classroom. And Keith and I are just going to try to make paper airplanes and do highlights and just try to\keep it simple and only speak when spoken to." Marveling at the team that includes Bob Costas, John Madden, Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Jerome Bettis, Tiki Barber and Andrea Kremer/ "it's sort of like joining the 'Ocean's 11' crew," said Patrick. "This is the Costas 11 crew, and I'm Elliott Gould or Carl Reiner." "To work with Dan again on top of this genuine pleasure that is the entire Sunday experience, it could not be better from my vantage point," said Olbermann, who began his duties for the NBC Sports team last season. As for their famous chemistry, it may have had something to do with being holed up in central Connecticut, Patrick said. "We don't know why it worked. I say that, but I think what we did each night is we tried to entertain one another because you are in Bristol, Connecticut, where -- I mean, you are cordoned off from the rest of the world." "We didn't even know if it was on," Olbermann said. "Because, literally, we were ther ... |
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