| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/09/03, 1:44 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Don’t call it a comeback,” Keith Olbermann said last week, quoting LL Cool J. “I’ve been here for years.” But what else to call it? And how
many comebacks does one man get? This was the première of Olbermann’s
new sports talk show, on ESPN2, a network he helped launch in the early
nineties and did not expect to work for again. “My presumption would be
that [ESPN]would not have me back were the building on fire and I the
only possessor of a fire bucket in the world,” Olbermann said, after
leaving the network. Many in the building thought that he had started
the fire himself. (One executive: “He didn’t burn bridges here. He
napalmed them.”) Olbermann had since left ashes at MSNBC and Current,
and now, somehow, found himself at the scene of his original crime: “As I
like to say, ‘Bridge burned, take tunnel.’ ”
Olbermann entered the greenroom of his Times Square studio a few minutes before showtime, wearing a vest, a polka-dot tie, and trapezoidal
glasses. The show is ESPN’s only one taped in New York, so the network
had rented a set from “Good Morning America.” (A branded pinball machine
in the corner offered a bonus for hitting Diane Sawyer.) Several of
ESPN’s top executives were present, like prom-night chaperones. “The
guys at ESPN have stuck their necks out,” Olbermann said. “But sometimes
sticking your neck out is how you win a foot race.”
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