'NFL Today' host James Brown
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Episode 519 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with CBS' James Brown.
The longtime "NFL Today" host talks about life before broadcasting when he attended Harvard University and tried out for the Atlanta Hawks and what happened when he didn't make the team.
Brown then goes into his broadcasting career and discusses his decision to leave Fox's pregame show to join CBS' pregame show, what he expects to get out of the "NFL Today" each week, the changes at the "NFL Today" this season with Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason out and Matt Ryan in, what his typical Sunday is like each week and his biggest broadcasting flub, which was an epic 1-2 punch.
Following Brown, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in New York joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week's topics include the Dodgers-Yankees World Series, a terrible gambling beat, the NFL trade deadline falling on Election Day and a review of the movie, "Saturday Night."
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| 0:42.0 | Welcome, Now. Welcome everyone to S.I. Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 0:45.8 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:47.2 | We have an awesome episode this week. |
| 0:49.0 | First time ever here on the S.I. |
| 0:52.0 | media with the Jimmy Trana Podcast, James Brown from CBS, host of the NFL today. |
| 0:57.0 | Really, really fascinating conversation with the man known as J.B. |
| 1:02.0 | Went to Harvard, tried out for the Atlanta Hawks. So we get into those things. |
| 1:06.4 | Then obviously did the Fox pre-game show for Fox for many years before going to CBS got into that why he left Fox for |
| 1:15.0 | CBS and then talked about the NFL today a couple of changes over there this year |
| 1:19.4 | with Bourners-Eison and Phil Sims out Ryan in, what he wants out of the NFL today, his prep for the |
| 1:26.0 | NFL today, what it's like doing a pre-game show in this day and age, and he closes, stick |
| 1:31.6 | around to the end, he closes with a phenomenal story about his greatest |
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