TV football studio stuff: NBC adds Dan Patrick; CBS/Showtime sacks Marino from "Inside the NFL"
Two announcements this AM on network NFL studio shows (for those who can't wait to read about it tomorrow):
==NBC has decided its "Football Night In America" show needed more tweaking, hence Dan Patrick has been added to the show to reunite with Keith Olbermann. It's been about 11 years since Patrick and Olbermann did ESPN "SportsCenter" together (Keith left to join Fox Sports Net studio show), but Bob Costas apparently was the one who suggested they get back to doing it, and this is the forum. No one will be leaving "FNIA," meaning Costas shares airtime now with Cris Collinsworth, Tiki Barber, Jerome Bettis, Olbermann and Peter King ... and Patrick.
Funny thing: Patrick, now a Sports Illustrated employee with his column and daily syndicated radio show, didn't leak this news to anyone, including SI's own media writer, Richard Deitsch.
==The Showtime presentation of the former HBO weekly show, "Inside the NFL," will use, as guessed, CBS talent James Brown as the host, Phil Simms as an analyst, plus keep Cris Collinsworth, but not retain Dan Marino (a CBS Sunday AM studio analyst). According to CBS Sports boss Sean McManus in today's USA Today, there is a fourth chair open for possibly a rotating guest analyst. Bob Costas had hosted the show in its HBO days, and Cris Carter joined Collinsworth and Marino on the set.



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