SportsCenter bloopers – ron burgundy espn audition “what’s the name of this network? esspen? that’s a terrible name.” Chris Berman drops an f-bomb, Beano Cook losing his sh*t “tell him I can hear him!”, anchors from the 70s looking goofy, dick vitale dancing, charley steiner melting down, shelley smith etc.
Duration : 0:4:52
(c)1990 ABC-Disney
I decided to test the ABC Sports waters and see what happened.
First, we get a brief tease of ABC’s college gridiron double-header. First, Michigan (in the first year after Bo Schembechler {?}) takes on UCLA (led by redshirt freshman Tommy Maddox), followed by Notre Dame (#1; how long ago that must seem) vs. Michigan State.
Then, the game intro. As Keith Jackson was still the VOICE of college football on the Alphabet channel, the second string job went to…Brent Musberger, in what I believe was one of his first assignments after some higher-ups at CBS went on a power trip and threw him out just before he was to take the #1 play-by-play role for CBS’ newly-acquired baseball coverage. Joining Brent was Dick Vermeil (midway through his 14-year coaching sabbatical), who had previously worked at CBS as an analyst and occasionally “NFL Today” panelist.
Duration : 0:4:13