Jimmy Traina Archives

Mike Tirico tells his story of watching the OJ Simpson chase with Lee Corso in Daytona Beach

"I've done hundreds of football games now, the very first one I did on network TV was a Florida-Georgia All-Star game with Corso on that day."

"They're allowed to have an opinion, that's how it works."

"You're supposed to give the candy to the kids."

"They should have bought DraftKings. They should have been on the ground floor."

NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson knows one of his biggest catch phrases is borrowed. Hanson appeared on the SI...

"I hope they make a run of it by being more national in orientation, but it doesn't do the readers here any good."

"At some point you just got to step aside and let somebody else have it."

“So like it was in 2020, I think, when I realized like, hey, this is a completely different animal and it is an institution."

"I think the Black Friday game walks so that Super Bowl Saturday can run."

"...These are arranged marriages. You don’t get to choose who you work with."

"ESPN has told you, just to be blunt, they don't care."

"Greg said, 'Tom, I gotta tell ya, this TV thing sucks.' It was great, we were dying laughing."

"I’m gonna be there to cover a football game, I want to be respectful."

"I had convinced myself we were getting Peyton Manning."

"The only thing a broadcaster can do is chase people away."

"I guess what’s perplexing to me is that I had no conversation with my boss."

"It was the right move for everybody. They saved some money, I replaced it with Caesars and the other things I'm doing. Everybody did okay."

Brandt also talked to SI.com's Jimmy Traina about trying to replace Nate Burleson on 'Good Morning Football.'