[ARETE] Review

[Duncan Jamieson]

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NFL studio show to go live and the first to have both a Black and female
co-host. Those four personalities battled each other and the competition,
and America loved them for it. This is the story of how Brent, Phyllis, Irv
and Jimmy got there, their drama and front-page headlines, and what
happened to them after the magic ended. Those headlines included Brent and
The Greek’s famous fight at Peartrees, Phyllis first marrying the man who
produced The Godfather, then dropping him after two months for the next
governor of Kentucky, and the shocking firing of Musburger on April Fool’s
Day, 1990.


America had never seen a show like this before. On the East Coast and the
Midwest, people would literally rush home from church to hear what they had
to say, and on the West Coast fans loved waking up to it. The NFL Today
became so popular that it not only dominated the ratings, but also w
timeslot 18 straight years, from 1975 to 1993, until CBS lost its NFL
package to Fox. And today, looking back, these four personalities, like any
family, had their own battles, and became even more famous for them.
[image: National Parks: The American Experience]

Rich Podolsky has been an established writer and reporter since the 1970s,
covering the Miami Dolphins and writing for The NFL Today. He has been a
staff writer for CBS Sports, and has written for The Philadelphia Daily
News, The Palm Beach Post, The Wilmington News-Journal, TV Guide and ESPN.
He is also the recipient of the prestigious Keystone Press Award for
writing excellence from the Pennsylvania Publishers Association. He has
written about the business of sports on television many times and is a
columnist for David Halberstam’s Sports Broadcast Journal. His passion for
music of the ‘60s and ‘70s fueled his desire to write about it. In *Don
Kirshner: The Man with the Golden Ear* (foreword by Tony Orlando), and *Neil
Sedaka, Rock ‘n’ Roll Survivor* (foreword by Elton John), he tells the
inside story of their success.

Remember to smell the roses as you recumber past

Duncan R. Jamieson, Ph. D.
Professor of History
Book Review Editor
*AETHLON: The Journal of Sport Literature*
Ashland University
Ashland, OH  44805
USA
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