Jim Nantz + Traina Thoughts
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Episode 374 of the "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast" hosted by Jimmy Traina features an interview with Jim Nantz, the lead NFL play-by-play man for CBS.
Nantz talks about the wild ending to the Niners-Cowboys wild-card playoff game that he called and how he handles a confusing finish like that. He also reveals his favorite stadiums to work in and the NFL quarterback who he thinks would be a slam dunk success if he does into broadcasting. Other topics covered by Nantz include why he likes wearing the official CBS blazer, his partnership with Tony Romo, memories of John Madden and much more.
Following the roundtable, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in New York, joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. Topics covered include how we they did on preseason NFL predictions, the frustration with wild-card weekend, Sal's beef with people who tweet their Wordle results and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the SI media podcast. I'm your host Jimmy trainer. Thanks so much for listening. We've got a good show this week. |
| 0:10.0 | Jim Vance, the play-by-play voice of CBS who will be calling Bills and Chiefs on Sunday night for |
| 0:18.4 | Division Round playoffs. |
| 0:19.5 | He obviously had the controversial and wild finish to the Niners Cowboys game, Wild Car Weekend, |
| 0:26.5 | so we get into all that and a lot more with Jim Nance. |
| 0:29.6 | And then of course we have our Train of Thought segment with Sal Lakata, where we review some preseason |
| 0:34.7 | NFL predictions and Sal has some rants about Wordle and we have some TV show discussion. |
| 0:41.5 | So good interview with Jim Nance, followed train of thoughts before we get to it just a |
| 0:44.8 | reminder if you missed last week's episode Richard Dyche from the athletic was on the |
| 0:48.7 | podcast former colleague you'll definitely gonna want to hear that if you're a Dutch fan. |
| 0:54.0 | Al Michaels, Tom Rinaldi, two weeks ago on the pod, and we ended 2021 with a roundtable |
| 0:59.8 | with Peter Shrager and Andrew Perloff. |
| 1:01.6 | All of those podcasts are in the archives. |
| 1:03.8 | So check them out, give them a listen, download, and if you can subscribe and review the |
| 1:07.9 | podcast, it helps immensely. |
| 1:10.2 | All right, let's get to this week's show. |
| 1:12.3 | Jim Nance, followed by trainer thoughts right here |
| 1:14.5 | on the SI media podcast. |
| 1:16.3 | All right, joining me now. |
| 1:19.4 | He's got the best game of the weekend, |
| 1:21.0 | had the best game of last weekend and we'll talk about that |
| 1:24.4 | hopefully he had a conversation with Troy Aikman and he is the lead NFL play by |
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