European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse T again Milton Kent Baltimore Sun Pat Summerall and John Madden the Best pairing in sports to these Days Start their 15th season As a duo with sunday s san Francisco new ". Orleans game and. After All that time together in so Many cities under so Many different Decur distances they still enjoy working together. The thing that i do to lot he Summrall does t do. " " anything. Just putting up with that and not paying arty attention to it is pretty Good Madden said from a hotel in Toronto before a recent exhibition game. If anything the time they spend apart from each other and the game Only Stokes their fire for football. 1 to Terry Terry Bradshaw won t be " Riding into the Fox pregame show studio sunday but that does t mean the network won t be taking the same approach a strange blend of entertainment and information for their second since Fox s nil sunday beat out Abc s nil live in the ratings they. Must be on to something. I liken it the show to watching the " game in a family room or in a pub said Brown we re having fun and shooting each other Down but also presenting information in an entertaining calling signals Abc covers the american football conference As its portion of the nil package yet the network has turned to two pretty High profile former National football conference quarterbacks to bolster its coverage and give the ratings a boost. In the marquee hires of the football broadcast season the Peacock gang plucked away former new York giant. Phil Simms to join Dick Enberg and Paul Maguire in its no. 1 Booth team while adding former san Francisco 49cr Joe Montana to its nil on Abc pro game show As a studio analyst. Montana who joins Greg Gumbel Mike Ditka Joe Gibbs Ahmad Rashad will Mcdonough and Jim Gray on sunday s special one hour edition has Fox John Madden and Pat Summerall head into heir 15th season As tandem. Been the target of speculation since he. Joined Abc a. Few months ago. Montana who was never known As i / the most loquacious of players will now be called upon candid and at times critical something he admit Simms who will work the new England game,.at least has a year of television under his Belt having studio analyst with esp last season. He left because he wanted a shot in the Booth. A the Skinny it would be Safe to say that Joe Gibbs and have a slight difference of opinion on the direction of their former team the Washington redskins. / Gibbs rhe Abc studio analyst who guided Washington to three super bowl championship thinks the redskins Are on. Back but just a cd some ,. Time and a few More be got the right coach Norv Turner. He s making the right decisions Gibbs said Oil a conference Call monday. When things get Clown it takes time to build them Back up again. just Don t have the dominant players. It will just take time.". ,. Meanwhile May who has joined int As. An analyst for its studio shows. Is a lot More pessimistic. May an All pro mainstay of the. Vaunted hogs offensive line arid one if the most articulate players Ever to play the game blasts the current Washington Hierarchy. He lays the blame for the team s collapse squarely at the of general manager Charley Casserly. Charley s putting his stamp on the team. He s getting rid of All the players and from the Gibbs and former o general Beathard regime. Fine. If he wants to do that so be it said May Burthen he Akes the team and the organization Down the tubes with him then there s got to be a r change it should be noted that it Vas _ Casserly who Cut May a move that leaves the former tackle admittedly very bitter but May. Believes he can simply by comparing the redskins to others like the 49crs, who like Washington won titles in the 1980s. Unlike the redskins san Francisco has continued to win in the 1990s._ May Points out that All of Gassy by s first round draft choices receiver Desmond Howard now with Jacksonville quarterback Heath Shuler and this year s Choice receiver Michael Westbrook have All been contract holdouts thus slowing their development. You be got to get that Young player in there. If he s an Impact player he s got to be in Camp said May. Bad organizations will never succeed and Good organizations will find a Way to get there and stay a " Mike on Deion one Guy who s not sold in the value of Deion Sanders to a team s super bowl chances is Abc analyst Mike Ditka. I Don t believe one Man can take a team to the super bowl and i Don t. Think he Sanders took san Francisco last year said the cantankerous Ditka monday. He was fortunate enough to join a solid organization and he got a bowl ring. If he signs with Dallas this year he won t get a super bowl ring.". So take that Triine time. Keith Jackson 30 years of Keith Jackson by Randy Covitz Kansas City Star you can Tell Bob Gritsc has been hanging around Keith Jackson thelast eight years. Griese May be a member of the pro football Hall of Fame and owner of two super bowl rings but As Jackson s analyst on Abc s telecasts he has a soft spot for the College game. There s something special about being on a College Campus on a Friday or a saturday morning Gritsc said. The v tradition and All i i the pageantry and r " the bands. And As my broadcast partner is so fond of saying there a often four generations of tans i in the stands that s special is Jackson s 30th season of. Making College football a special event Tor Abc sports. Like All the great one she s an original v who else but the Georgia born v Jackson can get away with Nellie or calling linemen big ugliest without sounding corny \ while the probation at Ala Vima the investigation at Florida state and allegations at Miami Trio so v combined to finish no. 1 in three of the ,. Last six years have dragged College football into a morass there s still no better Way to spend a saturday afternoon than listening to Jackson s signature Call tummmhlmr1. More than just an announcer Jackson 66, serves As an on air conscience of the Garnet on his mind last week during a. Teleconference was the bowl Alliance that is to determine a National Champion. Jackson said taking the top two teams from the two major polls is not sufficient. St rent Lvov schedule needs to be factored in a formula similar to the Power ratings in College basketball. Suppose Florida state and Texas am wind up playing in Tempe Arizona in the so called big game no. 1 is. No. 2," Jackson said it could happen. They have schedules that can. Break right for them. " a you going to Tell me Florida state could go through the Sec season undefeated or Texas am could go through the big ten undefeated if you come up with some kind of format prior to the conclusion of the bowl games that does not include strength of schedule your poll is not Worth a darn. You re wishing up a hollow wishing up a hollow log that s another Jackson ism to remember. Scripps Howard news service september 2-8,1995 beyond the game Page 23
