The Booth

They hired him because he was the funniest man in the building.

Sharp. Fast. A vocabulary that could turn a sentence about a punt return into a reference to ancient Rome before the play was even finished replaying.

Twenty years on television had made him exactly who he was. Nobody was asking him to become someone else. They just wanted him in the booth on Monday nights, next to two men who called the game the way the game had always been called.

First broadcast, he came out swinging.