BERMAN’S 1ST BOOTH WITHOUT CASH BEING TRANSACTED: Obvious exaggeration Interesting factoid from Peter King’s MMQB: “In 1976, Cornell football coach George Seifert, in the midst of a disastrous 3-15 two-year run at the Ivy League school, prowled the sidelines during a 28-12 loss to Brown in upstate New York. He was fired after the season.
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“In the Cornell radio booth that day, as he was for every game of the Big Red’s debacle of a season, was student broadcaster Keith Olbermann.
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“In the visitors’ radio booth that day was Brown student broadcaster Chris Berman.
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“The next season in which Seifert was a head coach (1989), he won a Super Bowl with the 49ers, while Berman and Olbermann critiqued him for ESPN.“








