Re: NFL Network to discuss Gumbel's status after remark <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>NFL Network to discuss Gumbel after remarkNEW YORK (Aug. 21, 2006) -- The job status of Bryant Gumbel, scheduled to be the play-by-play broadcaster on the eight late-season games on the NFL's in-house network, could be the subject of a discussion by NFL officials after Gumbel's suggestion that Paul Tagliabue show his successor "where he keeps Gene Upshaw's leash."Tagliabue said that incoming commissioner Roger Goodell and Steve Bornstein, who runs the NFL Network, will discuss the remarks after Goodell takes office Sept. 1.Gumbel addressed his closing remarks on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on Aug. 15 to Goodell."Before he cleans out his office," Gumbel said. "Have Paul Tagliabue show you where he keeps Gene Upshaw's leash. By making the docile head of the players union his personal pet, your predecessor has kept the peace without giving players the kind of guarantees other pros take for granted. Try to make sure no one competent ever replaces Upshaw on your watch."Tagliabue's response: "What Gumbel said about Gene Upshaw and our owners is about as irresponsible as anything I've heard in a long time."Upshaw did not immediately return a call placed by The Associated Press.However, a number of owners have said that they thought they had given away too much to the union in a last-minute six-year contract extension that added almost a billion dollars in the league's contribution to the players.And Upshaw told the AP several weeks ago that he was able to get more from the owners than he had agreed to just a few days before the owners finally agreed on the new deal.Gumbel, once the host of the NBC pregame show and later co-host of The Today Show, said when he was hired that no restrictions had been put on his ability to comment on what he sees on the field."It's a lot like covering any story," he said. "You see what is front of you and you report on it."The two-year-old NFL Network will televise eight late-season games on Thursday and Saturday nights this season.</div>http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/9612380
Re: NFL Network to discuss Gumbel's status after remark Haha, that is awesome.Bryant Gumbel is the man.
Re: NFL Network to discuss Gumbel's status after remark It would be a black eye to the NFL if they fired him for his comments. Showing they will control how you think.
Re: NFL Network to discuss Gumbel's status after remark He's absolutely right, but had no buisness to say it though.
