I have followed your show for years.This show has to be the Secretariat of all your shows. This show has just run away from all other shows. Just delightful, so informative, I just love listening to all these stories from the past, they bring back so many great memories. Humbly I say THANK-YOU.
My first memory of the NFL, growing up in Fresno, Ca, is of Brent saying "You are looking live!"... .SHOCKED he's not in the HOF!!!!!! HELP HIM OUT DAN!!!!!
The Original NFL TODAY show was part of my childhood! Come home from church turn it on before the Packer game! Brent, Irv Cross, Jimmy The Greek and Phyliss George, what memories.
Met Mr Musburger when he was doing a game at West Virginia in the press box. He was still calling games with Coach Vermeil at the time. Super nice guy.
I'm 49 years old and his CBS intro is hard wired in my head: "You are looking LIVE at (plug in NFL stadium)". Current NFL commentators and studio hosts are sorely lacking in comparison.
Great segment! Absolutely nothing against LedZep's "When The Levee Breaks" as bumper music, but I would have loved to hear the NFL Today theme in that spot.
You are looking live at Atlanta county Fulton stadium where the Falcons take on the Packers…. Loved that pre game show…Definitely changed the game…That crew should be in the HOF….
I agree with Brent that Super Bowl three was the most important game but actually there would be two games that could be called that. The other game was the 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. The first football game ever to go into overtime. And that game put the NFL on the map as a major sport. Which it was not until that game.
What has been lost in the mists of time is the pivotal role of George Sauer, Jr., who became Joe Namath's primary target for Super Bowl III as the Colts took Don Maynard the other WR out of the game and made Namath throw elsewhere. George stepped up and had the game of his career in pro football.
Pretty sure Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire did the NFL pregame before BM. It was a dark studio and they pushed a button to show the last weeks games highlights for CBS.
Brent is the dean of football . If you look at the famous picture of Joe Namath before SB 3 in the chair by the pool thats a young Brent sitting there. Tell the story about the Greek knowing that the Colts owner put a million down on the Jets to win. It was fixed. Rosenbloom, Shula,Morrall, and Lou Michaels the kicker. Thats all. Unitas was innocent and put in to make it look good. His elbow had tendonitis for months.
Not the intent of his comment and you know it! Reserve your keyboard-warrior, know-it-all, tough-guy talk for when it is appropriate. I almost omitted one more thing: get over yourself.
When football pre-game hosts did not act like circus clowns; Irv Cross was one of the best. It is shocking that so many are being fooled with that fake Taylor Swift thing, or maybe they don't care since so much is fake now.
NFL wants to change the Kansas City Chiefs to the Kansas City Swifts because their ratings were greater with Taylor Swift on the sidelines than before she became a fan.
Brent Musberger is about the ONLY journalist alive or still has his wits about him who can thread the needle for Super Bowl 1, the AFL- NFL merger all the way to what the NFL is today. Dude has hundreds of stories. He should have his 30 -30 special last like 6 1 hour segments.
Something gonna blow up one day from all this gambling. It's gonna be catastrophic bc some official/officials, owner, player/players, coach gonna get caught gambling
I remember his show, what was it called? "The NFL Today?" in the 1980s. On Sunday mornings he would say "You are looking live".. at such and such a stadium where the Eagles are playing the Cowboys.. and "You are looking live"... where the Raiders are playing the Jets, etc. Satellite TV bringing you live action from around the country was a big deal. That was a lot of fun, and I well remember Irv Cross and the beautiful Phyllis George. o
