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Fox Sports show pits Switzer vs. Johnson
By Michael McCarthy, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — Another ex-Dallas Cowboys coach is hitting the airwaves as a football analyst. Fox Sports announced Tuesday that Barry Switzer is joining the cast of its Fox NFL Sunday pregame show. Switzer will debate ex-Cowboys field general Jimmy Johnson in a weekly "Coaches Corner" segment while also analyzing NFL action and college football BCS standings.
Switzer, who will also work as an analyst with XM Satellite Radio this fall, said he looks forward to jousting with Johnson who he's known as a colleague and competitor at Arkansas, Oklahoma and the NFL. "We've known each other for 50 years," he said.
Johnson said Fox colleague Terry Bradshaw will referee the debates. "Terry will keep us separated," he jokes. Johnson added that ex-Cowboys coach-turned new ESPN football analyst Bill Parcells visited him in the offseason to talk football.
Switzer, who won Super Bowl XXX in 1996 after succeeding Johnson as Cowboys coach in 1994, didn't pull any punches Tuesday. He said the dogfighting charges against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick give NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell an opportunity to "clean up the league and get rid of the bums and the thugs. That's very important for the game."
Whether it's Fox's Coaches Corner, ESPN's Pardon the Interruption or the old point/counterpoint segment on CBS' 60 Minutes, the one-on-one debate has been a TV staple. Asking Switzer and Johnson to bang heads was a no-brainer after watching their chemistry during the network's Fiesta Bowl coverage, says Fox Sports president Ed Goren. "They're like an old, bickering married couple. Any fan will be able to relate."
Meanwhile, Goren said NFL insider Jay Glazer will drop his role as sideline reporter and join Switzer, Johnson, Bradshaw, Howie Long, new host Curt Menefee, comic Frank Caliendo and returning weather woman Jillian Barberie on the set in Los Angeles. The top-rated NFL pregame show is moving back to its longtime studio setting after a season on the road.
Goren is also tinkering with his NFL broadcast teams, teaming Kenny Albert with Daryl Johnston, pairing Johnston's former partner Dick Stockton with Brian Baldinger and hiring former Jacksonville Jaguar Tony Boselli as a game analyst. The No. 1 team remains unchanged: Troy Aikman, Joe Buck and Pam Oliver.
Pacman grilled: Bryant Gumbel of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel has frequently blasted the NFL and union president Gene Upshaw. But if suspended star Adam "Pacman" Jones thought Gumbel would lend a friendly ear, he was mistaken, at least according to a transcript of their interview scheduled to air Tuesday night.
After ticking off Jones' history of six arrests and 11 run-ins with the law (including a shooting incident at a Las Vegas strip club that left a bouncer paralyzed), Gumbel tells the Tennessee Titans cornerback that "trouble seems to ride shotgun" with him. "If I'm a guy who is conscious of your past, I go into some place, I know the safest, safe place for me in there is on the opposite side of the room from you," Gumbel says.
Fox Sports show pits Switzer vs. Johnson
By Michael McCarthy, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — Another ex-Dallas Cowboys coach is hitting the airwaves as a football analyst. Fox Sports announced Tuesday that Barry Switzer is joining the cast of its Fox NFL Sunday pregame show. Switzer will debate ex-Cowboys field general Jimmy Johnson in a weekly "Coaches Corner" segment while also analyzing NFL action and college football BCS standings.
Switzer, who will also work as an analyst with XM Satellite Radio this fall, said he looks forward to jousting with Johnson who he's known as a colleague and competitor at Arkansas, Oklahoma and the NFL. "We've known each other for 50 years," he said.
Johnson said Fox colleague Terry Bradshaw will referee the debates. "Terry will keep us separated," he jokes. Johnson added that ex-Cowboys coach-turned new ESPN football analyst Bill Parcells visited him in the offseason to talk football.
Switzer, who won Super Bowl XXX in 1996 after succeeding Johnson as Cowboys coach in 1994, didn't pull any punches Tuesday. He said the dogfighting charges against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick give NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell an opportunity to "clean up the league and get rid of the bums and the thugs. That's very important for the game."
Whether it's Fox's Coaches Corner, ESPN's Pardon the Interruption or the old point/counterpoint segment on CBS' 60 Minutes, the one-on-one debate has been a TV staple. Asking Switzer and Johnson to bang heads was a no-brainer after watching their chemistry during the network's Fiesta Bowl coverage, says Fox Sports president Ed Goren. "They're like an old, bickering married couple. Any fan will be able to relate."
Meanwhile, Goren said NFL insider Jay Glazer will drop his role as sideline reporter and join Switzer, Johnson, Bradshaw, Howie Long, new host Curt Menefee, comic Frank Caliendo and returning weather woman Jillian Barberie on the set in Los Angeles. The top-rated NFL pregame show is moving back to its longtime studio setting after a season on the road.
Goren is also tinkering with his NFL broadcast teams, teaming Kenny Albert with Daryl Johnston, pairing Johnston's former partner Dick Stockton with Brian Baldinger and hiring former Jacksonville Jaguar Tony Boselli as a game analyst. The No. 1 team remains unchanged: Troy Aikman, Joe Buck and Pam Oliver.
Pacman grilled: Bryant Gumbel of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel has frequently blasted the NFL and union president Gene Upshaw. But if suspended star Adam "Pacman" Jones thought Gumbel would lend a friendly ear, he was mistaken, at least according to a transcript of their interview scheduled to air Tuesday night.
After ticking off Jones' history of six arrests and 11 run-ins with the law (including a shooting incident at a Las Vegas strip club that left a bouncer paralyzed), Gumbel tells the Tennessee Titans cornerback that "trouble seems to ride shotgun" with him. "If I'm a guy who is conscious of your past, I go into some place, I know the safest, safe place for me in there is on the opposite side of the room from you," Gumbel says.
