When I reported on the announcement that Joe Buck was to become the host to Fox NFL Sunday yesterday, I had an entire paragraph devoted to how it'll be a shame that the show's "meteorologist", Jillian Barberie, would have to bundle up if the show pulled into Green Bay in November. But I cut the whole thing when I realized her name was not on story about the change on FoxSports.com. I guessed that Barberie was no longer going to be with the show, but I wasn't quite sure.Tom of the LA Daily News blog "Farther Off the Wall" was wondering, too, so he contacted Fox. A producer told him that Barberie's work on Good Day L.A. was going to make it hard for her to stick to the pre-game show's traveling schedule, and they didn't want her to work remotely because they'd lose the interaction she had with Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, and Jimmy Johnson. So Jillian's out. Too bad; she was annoying as hell, but so much nicer to look at than Johnson's toupee. But, good news everyone: we'll still get plenty of Frank Caliendo.
[via Deadspin]















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8-16-2006 @ 8:49AM
Matt said...
Never once found Frank's bits to be amusing. More often than not they encouraged me to change the channel.
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8-16-2006 @ 8:59AM
Joel Keller said...
Matt, you must not be a Futurama watcher... that "good news everyone" thing was supposed to be sarcastic.
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8-16-2006 @ 10:08AM
Jerry said...
So whose going to do the weather? I need to know its 50 degree below in Green Bay...think of the impact this will have on fantasy teams. Where will we get our weather and field conditions from? Oh the horror!
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8-16-2006 @ 2:57PM
Matt said...
Joel,
Actually I do watch at least one episode every night (except Friday) and am somewhat ashamed I didn't recognize the, in retrospect, obvious reference.
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