Word: nfl
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...profession has translated into a career recognized by others in the industry as superb. In 1995, the Quarterback Club of Washington named Brown its Sportscaster of the Year. His most visible role is as a co-host of "NHL on Fox" and the Emmy Award-winning "Fox NFL Sunday," the most-watched football pre-game show...
Besides working NFL games at CBS, Brown hosted 11 NCAA championships, the Winter Olympics, the NBA championships and the Tour de France. He also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with the Special Olympics in the Emmy-winning program "Let Me Be Brave: A Special Climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro." Four years ago, when Fox won NFL broadcasting rights by outbidding CBS, Brown faced a tough decision. Then Fox came calling...
...money, NBC and TNT are starting a league of their own. Details are still being worked out, but the league would begin play on Sundays in the fall of 1999 in 10 to 12 "major U.S. cities" (read Birmingham, Memphis and every other medium-sized town shunned by the NFL, plus Los Angeles, which has lacked an NFL team since the Raiders and Rams fled...
...There's no Vegas line yet, but the smart money says the odds aren't good. There have been seven previous attempts to create a league to take on the NFL. Six of them failed -- remember the WFL? the USFL? The one that succeeded, the American Football League, did so by merging with the NFL...
...There were two situations; I could be scratching and clawing to get on an NFL team, or I could have a better chance and maybe even start...