Keith Olbermann has been on NBC’s Football Night in America since 2007, but will be torturing football fans no longer. Network suits have announced that nobody’s favorite SportsCenter personality will be leaving the sports world for good. NBC executives said the move was not caused by Olbermann’s political leanings, but because Peter King was being suffocated by his smugness. If you put it that way, maybe they should have kept him on air, at least for a couple more weeks.
Multiple media and network television sources confirmed to me Thursday that Keith Olbermann will not appear on NBC’s Football Night In America Sunday evening NFL broadcasts this season.
I’m told that NBC News officials requested the move, citing Olbermann’s weekday commitment to MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. During the 2009 NFL season, Olbermann periodically did not appear on Friday editions of Countdown.
Network television sources confirmed to me that Olbermann’s departure from FNIA was not due to any conflict with cast or production crew members. I was also given no indication that Olbermann’s politics had anything to do with the move. –Sports by Brooks via –USA Today
They took him off so he could make more episodes of Countdown? That’s the last thing I want. I’m not saying that the “Fair and Balanced” fellas at Fox News (note: not actually fair and balanced –ed) are any better, but God, Olbermann is annoying. Everything he talks about is nothing more than opinion, but he says it as if it’s indisputable, scientific fact. Not to mention that he believes he’s the world’s smartest man with that same ignorant ferocity. Keith is, without question, the most overrated SportsCenter anchor of all time. At least he doesn’t manage to mess up ‘This is SportsCenter’ skits.
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Really? Olbermann is the most overrated? What about Kilborn? Is he even alive? Until Kilborn does something — ANYTHING — he’s the most overrated. At least Olbermann’s in the public eye for something.
kilborn was an anchor? huh. never heard anyone talk about him being on sportscenter until your comment.
olberman is almost, ALMOST worse than sean penn.
Where can I get a job in which I don’t have to work on Fridays because of a gig on Sunday night???
There’s no way Olbermann is the most overrated of all-time. That implies that anyone ever thought highly of his abilities, and that’s just not true. You can’t be overrated if everyone agrees you suck.
***This just in: Olbermann claims his ouster was the result of a vast right wing conspiracy and that, somehow, it’s all George Bush’s fault.***
One down, a few more to go.
Yes, thank God we’ve gotten rid of the one and only guy on “Football Night in America” who gives nothing but his own opinion on things.
Now let’s get rid of that fat name dropping POS, Peter King.
I liked when Olbermann looked like a pedophile when working for the worldwide leader. At least then you just though he liked 10 year old girls, not that he was really a jackass under all that creepy fog and mirrors.
Thank God.
Enjoy Countdown while you can, After Olberman spends the month of November in the bath tub, the new owners of MSDNC will be firing his fat ass
Olbermann is definitely the worst of the Sportscenter fraternity although Chris Berman might close the gap…
They are just letting Olbermann go because he’s the only journalist with the nutts to push that Republican conservative shit back up the ass of them racists bastards. Olbermann and scared of you muhfuckas!
And no one finds the fact that he’s being so deadpan while dressing up opinion as “facts” funny? Interesting… Americans are really starting to get their heads stuck way too far up their collective asses now, just because a guy dares to do something most other talking heads don’t….
i am really absorbed…….