HBO's Inside The NFL

Was Costas always the host? He's really been working that HONORABLE SPORTS GRATIVAS angle for way too long, and looks like Dick Clark gone the way of Dorian Gray (sic?) now. (BTW, I heard Jim Lampley - the orig ITN host? - doing an HBO boxing match - while my servants were giving me a pedicure, obv - and he sounded GREAT.)

Lampley is terrific on boxing, imo, and is a really interesting guy in general.

-yeah...him, merchant & lederman are great...actually, throw in the dude that usually does the spanish translation, too! manny steward does good analysis, but i miss the days of foreman's insane rmablings...he was actually kind of like the joe morgan commentary. listening to the guy, you wondered how he became a champ, until you remembered how bad the heavyweight div has been since tyson lost the plot.

Foreman was unbelievably good in the '70s. The Ali fights were so fascinating.

Sorry for deviating into ILBoxing!

After trainer Eddie Futch wouldn't let Frazier come out for the 15th round, Wyatt said, he was the only member of the media in Ali's room moments later. The champ, recovering from fainting in the ring, was trying to compose himself in the heat and humidity. According to Wyatt, he said, "It's like dying -- I don't think the pain could be any more if I had died."

so many good fights!

So this is on Showtime now, but whatev. Just wanted to say: Phil Simms is such a horrible stick-in-the-mud. Everyone truly looks like they can't stand him. Adam Schein seems incredibly unctuous. Brandon Marshall lights up the screen, though. So fun to get his perspective every week.

LOL I just looked up this thread, forgetting I had posted the above. I basically would like to reiterate what I wrote. Phil Simms is just a mean person. He went way out of his way to let Michael Irvin that the Cowboys did NOT have any photos of him on their bus. Brandon Marshall is still good, though. And Irvin has 1000x the charisma of Simms.