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Here are some highlights from this 2021 book<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* \u201cWe all realized what we had [in Phyllis],\u201d said Mike Pearl, \u201cwhen we took the show on the road for the playoffs and Super Bowl. Phyllis was the main attraction. When we all walked through an airport or down a street together, the public would go to Phyllis. They pretty much ignored Brent. There may have been some resentment there. And when we were out for dinner, Phyllis was the one being asked for autographs.\u201d 6
\n Yvonne Connors would travel with Phyllis on the road and remembers one particular playoff game.
\n \u201cWhen The NFL Today traveled to San Francisco,\u201d said Connors, \u201cour set was out on the field. And when Phyllis walked out on the field, warm-ups stopped for a moment, all the players turned, and you should have heard the crowd! Talk about working a room\u2014she knew how to work a stadium!\u201d<\/p>\n

* \u201cJayne [Kennedy] was something else. She was great,\u201d Fishman said, \u201cbut Brent was really cruel to her on one particular show. For some reason he was ticked off at everybody on that particular day\u2014maybe it was because of all the notoriety she was getting, I don\u2019t know. We came up to halftime and I remember this clearly. Brent would do the score rundowns and then he and Irv would do the highlights. And this halftime Brent said something like, \u2018We\u2019re back live at The NFL Today studios in New York, and Jayne, why don\u2019t you take us around the league [and report the scores of the games]?\u2019 She looked like a deer in the headlights. It was awful. I remember hitting his headset and saying, \u2018That was a real son-of-a-bitch move.\u2019 But Brent just ignored the comment.
\n \u201cHe threw her a curve ball. She wasn\u2019t prepared for it. She didn\u2019t know what team was leading what, and it was just awful. She\u2019d read the team that was losing first. Why would Brent do that? So cruel.\u201d 8
\n As she attempted to read the scores, she was shaking. They were too scared of Brent at that point to reprimand him. Fishman\u2019s comment in his earpiece was as tough as it got. They knew Brent controlled everything on the show, and they didn\u2019t want to ruffle his feathers. Producer Mike Pearl did approach Brent about it, however.
\n \u201cI told Brent that it was wrong,\u201d said Pearl. \u201cHe said he was just trying to have fun with it. There were no repercussions. I apologized to Jayne, who as I remember, took it in stride. Second-guessing myself, if we were just doing a score segment, we should have had just Brent and Irv on the set.\u201d 9
\n It turned out that Jayne was not fine with it and did not take it in stride.
\n Said Jayne of the incident: \u201cI don\u2019t know why Brent did it. And that was one of the reasons I asked CBS to give me studio [practice] time\u2014to work with me so I wouldn\u2019t have anything like that facing me. Brent didn\u2019t tell me he was going to do that. It was completely unfair. It was a problem and continued to be a problem. People would say, \u2018She\u2019s a girl. She didn\u2019t do it like guys do it.\u2019 Probably every male reporter in the country that hated female sportscasters tried to make me look bad. There\u2019s a tie to gambling, because if you read the score with losing score first, their ear is tuned to hear the winning score first, and they don\u2019t actually listen to what you\u2019re saying. Because all I did was to read the losing score before the winning score. Over the years I\u2019ve seen guys doing the exact same thing, but because it was a woman doing it, they made a big to-do over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

* With Phyllis back, she demanded more attention than Jayne Kennedy had and definitely more airtime. With just twenty-two minutes available in the show, the one who was going to get squeezed for airtime was Jimmy The Greek. It seemed that more and more when Brent had an extra thirty seconds he\u2019d go in Phyllis\u2019s direction with a question rather than Irv Cross\u2019s or The Greek\u2019s.<\/p>\n

* By October 26, 1980, it was Jimmy\u2019s fifth season on the show, and it\u2019s possible Brent was growing tired of Snyder\u2019s so-called inside information that they discussed on the segment known as \u201cThe Greek\u2019s Grapevine.\u201d On this day, however, Snyder had a legitimate piece of news. He was about to report that Notre Dame was going to hire Gerry Faust, a high school football coach from Akron, Ohio, to replace its current coach, Dan Devine, at the season\u2019s end.
\n This was huge news. The great, almighty Notre Dame hiring a high school football coach, no less! And nobody else had it. Remarkably, The Greek found out with still a month to go in the schedule. But as Brent led into the piece, instead of saying something like, \u201cWhat have you got for us today, Greek?\u201d Brent blurted out Jimmy\u2019s exclusive news himself, leaving Snyder tongue-tied with nothing to say. What should have been Jimmy\u2019s greatest moment in his five years with the show turned into one of his most embarrassing.
\n \u201cBrent hung him out to dry,\u201d said Mike Pearl, who was watching from home. 4 In fact, it was well accepted in the control room that Brent would often steal someone else\u2019s headline. According to Pearl, Musburger sometimes listened in while Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier rehearsed their spot for the show\u2019s opening in the whip-around, then Brent would mention their news as he threw it to them, live on the air. Summerall and Brookshier became infuriated with Musburger because it happened more than once.
\n \u201cBefore the playoffs our first year,\u201d Pearl said, \u201cwe had a production meeting including the studio people and the game people together. Brent and Pat sort of stared each other down. You could tell it was boiling. I knew at that point we weren\u2019t going to have dinner at the same restaurant.\u201d
\n According to the New York Times , Phyllis also complained to her daughter Pamela that \u201cduring commercial breaks she\u2019d have an idea and one of the guys would steal it as if it were his.<\/p>\n

* Soon after Brent arrived, Jimmy came in and started complaining to Brent about what happened. Brent said, \u201cJimmy, I can kill you any time I feel like it.\u201d And Jimmy leaned over and slapped him.<\/p>\n

* Brent is a very smart guy, but he has an ego and he can suck the air out of the room. Brent could do the studio show with games from eight sites, and he\u2019d always know where he was and he always knew whom he was talking to. He was an enormous asset. The Greek, another big ego, resented Brent\u2019s dominance in decision-making. Brent was maybe five times as smart as him, but Brent resented it that night at Peartrees.<\/p>\n

* Musburger knew he was an employee and he would go do what employees did, in spite of all his clout. Jimmy didn\u2019t have any depth. Jimmy was a force of nature. There weren\u2019t a lot of rational things you could say to Jimmy that were going to change his mind.<\/p>\n

* This wasn\u2019t the first time there was tension and shouting between Brent and Phyllis and The Greek. \u201cOne of the reasons for friction between Brent and The Greek,\u201d said Mike Pearl, \u201cwas Jimmy\u2019s close friendship with Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis. Jimmy used to openly root for the Raiders on the set while we were on the air, distracting Brent.\u201d<\/p>\n

* On this Friday before Martin Luther King Day, a crew from the local NBC affiliate was at the restaurant asking people, \u201cWhat does Martin Luther King Day mean to you?\u201d For The Greek it was the perfect storm. He needed both the 49ers and the Bears to lose at home and a camera to break to put him in that restaurant, at that exact moment in time.
\n WRC-TV\u2019s Ed Hotaling, a Black producer-reporter, spotted The Greek having lunch and approached. Snyder may have had a glass of wine or two but he wasn\u2019t drunk. Hotaling began by asking Snyder about civil rights in sports. The Greek started explaining how Black athletes became bigger and stronger than white athletes.
\n \u201cThe Black is a better athlete to begin with, because he\u2019s been bred to be that way,\u201d Jimmy told Hotaling with a microphone in front of him and a camera staring him in the face. \u201cIt\u2019s because of his high thighs and big thighs that go up into his back. And they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs, you see.\u201d He went on to say that \u201cthe Blacks are going to take over everything [in sports],\u201d and that the only thing left for the whites is \u201ca couple of coaching jobs.\u201d
\n Hotaling was stunned, but he kept the camera rolling and allowed The Greek to continue a speech that would ultimately end his broadcasting career. \u201cI\u2019m telling you,\u201d Snyder insisted, \u201cthat the Black is the better athlete and he practices to be the better athlete, and he\u2019s bred to be the better athlete, because this goes all the way to the Civil War when, during the slave trading, the slave owner would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid, see. That\u2019s where it all started.\u201d
\nTo most observers of sports, there was no doubt that on average the Black athlete was superior to the white. But where did The Greek get his theories about breeding? Perhaps it was from Sports Illustrated .
\n On January 18, 1971, S.I. published a lengthy article by Martin Kane titled \u201cAn Assessment of Why Black Is Best.\u201d In the article Kane quoted several authorities on the subject. It starts off asking, \u201cIs the black athlete a long stride better than his white counterpart? And if not, what accounts for the immense success of the black in American sport during the last two decades? Scientists are searching for the answers and as they probe for true racial distinctions, fascinating theories have evolved, may of them controversial.\u201d
\n \u201cThere is an increasing body of scientific opinion,\u201d Kane wrote, \u201cwhich suggests that physical differences in the races might well have enhanced the athletic potential of the Negro in certain events.\u201d
\n In the same Sports Illustrated article, the author quotes Lee Evans, Olympic and world 400-meter record holder. Asked why Black Americans have produced so extraordinarily disproportionate a number of the highest-class athletes in the world, Evans replied: \u201cWe were bred for it. Certainly the black people who survived in the slave ships must have contained a high proportion of the strongest. Then, on the plantations, a strong black man was mated with a strong black woman. We were simply bred for physical qualities.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Then Brent Musburger called Shaker. The fight between Brent and The Greek was nearly eight years earlier, but there was no love lost between them. Brent no longer had respect for what Jimmy did on the show and treated him as such. Some said there might have been some jealousy involved because The Greek was asked for autographs far more often than Brent when they were on the road. So when Brent called, \u201che was angry and fed up\u201d according to Shaker, and he really unloaded on The Greek.
\n \u201cI\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019m not gonna sit on that field sitting next to that guy,\u201d Brent hollered to Shaker. \u201cNo chance I\u2019m gonna be on the same show with that guy Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBrent panicked,\u201d Jimmy told Peter Richmond of The National Sports Daily in 1990. \u201cIf he\u2019d opened up his mouth that day for me, he could have saved my job. But he didn\u2019t.”<\/p>\n

Shortly after the incident, the Alabama A&M football coach Ray Greene told the Associated Press, \u201cYou can\u2019t change history. He [Snyder] was accurate about the breeding process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The abolitionist and statesman Frederick Douglass is one former slave who wrote about these breeding practices, Rowe recalled. \u201cIn his autobiographical narrative, Douglass describes a young landowner who could only afford one slave. So he bought a woman named Caroline, a large able-bodied woman about twenty years old. \u2018Shocking as is the fact,\u2019 Douglass wrote, \u2018he bought her, as he said, for a breeder.\u2019 Then he went out and rented a married male slave. The result was that at the end of the year, the woman gave birth to twins.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Brent was happy. The producers were happy, and the show continued to win the ratings war in 1988 and \u201989. But management also began to think that they had a problem. When Van Gordon Sauter was running the CBS Sports ship in the early \u201980s, he signaled to Ted Shaker that he wanted one big star as the face of CBS Sports, and that star was to be Brent Musburger.
\n But as time wore on that became a slight problem, then a bigger one. \u201cOnce I became the overall guy [executive producer] in 1986,\u201d Shaker said, \u201cI talked to Brent about sharing [some of the plum assignments]. And he didn\u2019t want to share. That\u2019s where he and I went right down the tubes.\u201d 1
\n Imagine you were the manager of the New York Yankees and you had terrific starting pitchers. But instead of rotating them every fourth day, you started the same guy every day, and the other three just sat in the bullpen.
\n As 1990 approached, that was the dilemma Neal Pilson and Ted Shaker had at CBS Sports. Their starting pitchers were Brent Musburger, Jim Nantz, Greg Gumbel, and James Brown, but only Brent was handed the ball.
\n \u201cWhen it came to trying [to get Brent] to cut back some,\u201d said Shaker, \u201che didn\u2019t want to do it.”<\/p>\n

Musburger was already making $2 million a year. It was a far cry from the $13,500 annual salary he received twenty-two years earlier as a columnist for the Chicago American . He was CBS\u2019s lead broadcaster for the NBA, The NFL Today , NCAA football, U.S. Open tennis, the Belmont Stakes, and the Masters, and he had even been announced as the lead play-by-play voice for CBS\u2019s upcoming contract with Major League Baseball. He was also set to be the face of the network at the 1992 and \u201994 Olympic Games, to which CBS had acquired the rights. Quite a slate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going to be year-round Brent Musburger,\u201d Pilson told the Sports Business Journal . 2 Ted Shaker, the network\u2019s executive producer, felt they were left with no choice but to fire Brent since he wouldn\u2019t give up any of his marquee events.
\n Plain and simply, they were too dependent on Brent.<\/p>\n

* In the early \u201980s, when Van Sauter was president of CBS Sports and was looking to add a journalistic touch, he brought Terry O\u2019Neil over from ABC Sports to be his executive producer. O\u2019Neil took one look around at all the things Brent had control over and declared him to be an \u201canchor-monster.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Word got out by Monday, April 1 [1990], and most everyone thought it was an April Fool\u2019s joke. Despite the decision being made, they all agreed that Brent would still call the NCAA final game Monday night, when UNLV ultimately defeated Duke, and at the conclusion he would say his goodbyes. They even told Billy Packer, Brent\u2019s partner on the game, that if Brent didn\u2019t end it in a professional manner that Packer was to pull the mic away from him.
\n \u201cAre you out of your mind?\u201d Packer told CBS. \u201cBrent would never do that.\u201d
\n At the game\u2019s conclusion, Brent wrapped it up saying, \u201cFolks, I\u2019ve had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it. I\u2019ll see you down the road. Now, let\u2019s send you to Jim Nantz.\u201d<\/p>\n

* At first it looked like Musburger was also going to take the high road. He released a statement that weekend through his assistant that said: \u201cI was surprised, but it was a great run and I have a million fond memories, and I leave behind a lot of good friends at CBS. I\u2019m going to take an extended vacation, and I\u2019ll be working again some day, somewhere.\u201d
\n But as the week wore on, Brent burned inside about the contentious ending. As far as he was concerned, he was fired for being too good. In an effort to negate the negative press, he decided to do a prime-time interview with Sam Donaldson from ABC News.
\n \u201cLet me start out by saying the contract negotiations were a sham,\u201d Musburger told Donaldson. \u201cIt was a setup all the way. It was unethical. They led us on all the way. Those two men [Pilson and Shaker] had decided I was too big for my britches and uncontrollable. With Shaker, he wants puppets for announcers. And I\u2019m not a puppet.\u201d
\n The clue in that last statement was Brent\u2019s use of the word \u201cuncontrollable.\u201d Neither Pilson nor Shaker used that word, but in hindsight it seems obvious that Musburger had too much control of too many events and there wasn\u2019t anyone brave enough at CBS to say no to him.<\/p>\n

Within a month Brent signed on with ABC and ESPN. It was a marriage that lasted twenty-seven years before a hurried exit in 2017.<\/p>\n

* The one thing ABC might have been leery about asking him to do was golf, but in 1992 they assigned him to cohost the U.S. Open with Jim McKay. At CBS Musburger had hosted the Masters broadcast in the late \u201980s despite his limited knowledge of the game. Former British Open champion Tom Weiskopf was assigned to \u201cbabysit\u201d Brent and help him when possible.
\n \u201cBrent Musburger was not a golfer,\u201d Weiskopf told the Chicago Tribune . \u201cBrent did not know or understand the tradition and terminology, or jargon, of the game. I got along with him because I was the baby-sitter for him. I had to get along with him. I was told: \u2018Your job is to baby-sit Brent and tell him everything you know about Augusta National, the golf course, golf in general, and help him with his terminology.\u2019 It was not a pleasant situation.\u201d
\nAfter Jim Nantz, who played golf for the University of Houston, replaced Musburger, Weiskopf\u2019s attitude about his assignment brightened immensely. \u201cJim\u2019s a golfer. Pat Summerall\u2019s a golfer,\u201d Weiskopf said. \u201cThey understand the traditions of the game, the history of the game. And they have the terminology that goes with the game. They know the difference between a chip and a putt. Bunkers are not called sand traps. I just did my job. It\u2019s very difficult to be an analyst. When your answers are yes and no, you cease to be an analyst. It\u2019s difficult when you\u2019re trying to give some facts, and you\u2019re trying to really help the telecast . . . and you\u2019re sitting next to somebody who doesn\u2019t understand what\u2019s really going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

He picked up the nickname of \u201cBig-Game Brent.\u201d It turned out, however, that calling Major League Baseball wasn\u2019t his forte either. In October of 1995 Musburger was calling the playoffs for ABC. Richard Sandomir, the former sports media critic for the New York Times , took exception.
\n \u201cDreadful news,\u201d Sandomir wrote. \u201cNew York must listen to Brent Musburger of ABC call Games 1, 2 and possibly Game 7 of the Seat-tle-Cleveland American League Championship Series. Coming off his mistake-strewn work on the Yankees-Mariners divisional series, ABC saw no apparent problem in assigning the former \u2018anchor monster\u2019 of CBS to the ALCS [American League Championship Series]. ABC must be looking to amortize his hefty salary.\u201d
\n \u201cMusburger\u2019s weekend in Seattle,\u201d Sandomir\u2019s article continued, \u201cexposed him as an inattentive baseball na\u00eff, who barely comprehends the game\u2019s obvious and nuanced points or its strategy. He is frequently fatuous and noticeably unprepared. \u2018Buckeye Brent\u2019s\u2019 digressions to college football reminded me that his overstated style is far better suited to being ABC\u2019s No. 2 college football announcer.\u201d 4
\n At ESPN Brent was the No. 1 college football play-by-play announcer, working alongside former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit. His folksy style led him to often call his analysts \u201cpardners\u201d and refer to Herbstreit as \u201cHerbie.\u201d In 2011 Musburger was assigned the BCS Championship game between Auburn and Oregon. Here\u2019s what the Times \u2019 Sandomir wrote the next day:
\n \u201cIf Musburger\u2019s performances at the Rose Bowl on New Year\u2019s Day, and the BCS title game Monday night, are exhibits of the State of the Brent, it is clear that he has veered from the factual precision needed to maintain his status as ESPN\u2019s No. 1 college football announcer. Musburger is one of sports broadcasting\u2019s great survivors and one of its most recognizable and excitable voices. Fired by CBS in 1990, he was soon picked up by ABC Sports. Being grateful for his second chance, he did virtually anything the network, and then ESPN, asked him.
\n \u201cBut the details add up to inattention to his job or an odd attempt to be the master of a new paradigm of announcing where emotion trumps fact. Musburger\u2019s B.C.S. title game performance will be remembered most for his silly recasting of himself as a marketing man. It was probably a momentary lapse of judgment, a lost trip into humor or an absurd conflation of game and sponsor. But as Auburn lined up for the field goal that would win the game, Musburger said, \u2018This is for all the Tostitos.\u2019
\n \u201cWhile viewers cringed or laughed nervously, [BCS game sponsor] Frito-Lay got a bonus for its tortilla chips brand that it could not have imagined or bargained for. \u2018Big Game Brent\u2019 delivered the snacks.\u201d 5
\n A few years later in 2013, he was calling Alabama\u2019s 42\u201314 blowout victory over Notre Dame when ESPN\u2019s cameras focused in on Katherine Webb in the stands. Webb, a model and the 2012 Miss Alabama, was the girlfriend of \u2019Bama quarterback A. J. McCarron. \u201cYou see that lovely lady there, she does go to Auburn,\u201d Musburger began. \u201cBut she\u2019s also Miss Alabama and that\u2019s A. J. McCarron\u2019s girlfriend. You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women. What a beautiful woman! Wow!\u201d When Herbstreit agreed with him, Musburger said, \u201cIf you\u2019re a youngster in Alabama, start getting the football out and throw it around the backyard with Pop.\u201d
\nThat credibility recalls what his first boss in television, Van Gordon Sauter, said about Musburger, going back thirty years. \u201cMusburger would talk back to you,\u201d Sauter said when interviewed for this book. \u201c\u2018This is dumb, it\u2019s a bad idea\u2019 or \u2018I don\u2019t know why you want me to do this.\u2019 At the end of it all, Musburger knew he was an employee and he would go do what employees did, in spite of all his clout.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, his peers have never named him National Sportscaster of the Year.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt that Brent Musburger made a tremendous impact on sports broadcasting. But it\u2019s ironic that after leaving CBS thirty years ago, he never returned to the one thing that made him famous, the one thing that he did better than anyone else. In the foreword for this book, Jim Nantz wrote that Brent was \u201cthe greatest studio host of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Van Gordon Sauter, who was president of CBS Sports when Phyllis returned to The NFL Today , had become the head of CBS News in 1982 and was instrumental in her joining The CBS Morning News.
\n \u201cI was an admirer of Phyllis,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought when she was on the camera it brightened the set. I used her in News. The News people hated her [because she didn\u2019t have a News background] and they did everything in their power to undermine her.”<\/p>\n

* Bob Fishman was the only one from CBS who still talked to him.
\n \u201cWe stayed in touch,\u201d Fishman said, \u201cand four or five years later I was going to Vegas for a basketball game and I called him up. He asked if we could have dinner. \u2018Great, I\u2019d love to see you,\u2019 I told him. He said to meet him at Michael\u2019s, the steakhouse in the Barbary Coast Hotel. I got there first and here he comes. It made you want to cry. His hair was down to his shoulders, there were grease stains all over his jacket, he was still bitter, and he kept wanting to talk about what CBS did to him. I grabbed the check and he then said to me, \u2018Could you do me a favor? Could you lend me a hundred dollars?\u2019 I\u2019m thinking, this guy is broken; his life is over. He and his wife have separated. He\u2019s living by himself in Vegas and he\u2019s broke. That stayed with me for a long time.\u201d
\n \u201cHe passed away shortly after that [April 21, 1996, from a heart attack] and that was another sad moment,\u201d Fishman continued. \u201cHank Goldberg and Mike [Pearl] and myself were at his funeral and hardly anyone came except for about four or five old bookmakers from Steubenville, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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