CBS and Tony Romo could use the remote “Kirk Herbstreit” model this Sunday for their late afternoon wild card game between the Saints and the Bears, the Post found.
Romo lost last Sunday’s game due to COVID protocols. He may be prevented from traveling from his Dallas home to New Orleans on Sunday.
Last week, after arriving in Los Angeles to call up the Rams-Cardinals game, Romo was discarded due to COVID protocols, resulting in Boomer Esiason flying across the country to work on team number 1 with Jim Nantz.
A CBS spokeswoman said she would announce her coverage plans later this week.
For the National Championship semifinal, ESPN built from Herbstreit’s home studio so he could call the game Ohio State-Clemson. Herbstreit announced that he had COVID in the previous days.
Although a final decision was not made on Romo, CBS would have a similar setup at home or at a local studio. Just as Chris Fowler, played by ESPN, was in place for the semifinal, Nantz would be in New Orleans for the Bears-Saints.
The other possibilities would be Romo traveling to New Orleans for the game or going away.
Romo signed a 10-year, $ 180 million contract this off-season. He missed a Sunday early in the season when Nantz called Masters.
He has called 15 games this year and, if he makes all the playoffs, will play 19 games in total, ending with the Super Bowl in February from Tampa.
Boog Movement
ESPN’s Jon (Boog) Sciambi becoming the new Cubs lead player demonstrates a few things. The first is that ESPN, as The Post previously reported, will significantly reduce its midweek games with its new MLB extension that will begin during the 2022 season.
While important work like the Cubs will catch anyone’s eye, the idea of combining ESPN with a local show is a way to maximize earnings.
People have been doing the local / national thing for a long time (Mike Breen, Ian Eagle, Brian Anderson), but this could become an additional trend with the changing dynamics of traditional media companies like ESPN. Sciambi will call 130 games, more or less, for the Cubs network, Marquee. He will also play baseball and college basketball for ESPN. With a raise launched, Sciambi can “fly the W.”
One app, many taps
ESPN has an ubiquitous promotion that emphasizes “One App, One Tap.” It’s a catchy little tune, but it takes many taps to find your radio shows.
You access the application and need to click on the lower right corner where “More” is written. After that, you have to scroll down a bit to find “Live Radio”. After clicking on it, there are several programs to choose from.
For radio, at least, it looks more like “An app, I need a map”.
SportsCenter cartoons
On Tuesday morning, at the new schedule of his program on 98.7 FM, Rick DiPietro said that if he directed ESPN he would attract younger viewers with a comic version of “SportsCenter”. The idea deserves 4.53 / 5 clickers. We don’t usually like forced synergy very much, but this Mickey Mouse idea is not a bad one.
Clicker Books
“Dalko: The untold story of the fastest pitcher in baseball,” by Bill Dembski, Alex Thomas and Brian Vikander, describes the exploits of pitcher Steve Dalkowski of the 1950s, who has a reputation for being the most difficult pitcher of all times with a pre-radar gun it estimates well over 100-MPH, but, due to control and other problems, was unable to reach the major leagues. The character Nuke LaLoosh from “Bull Durham” was inspired by Dalkowski. Dalko receives a 4.3 out of 5 rating from Papa Clicker.