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The Lead

Super Bowl LV: A Broadcast Like No Other

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Like just about everything else this year, the broadcast of Super Bowl LV will be unusual. The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch, who covers sports media, joins us to explain what to expect -- from poems, to commercials, to health care workers, to halftime entertainment -- and why he believes Tony Romo, who will doing color commentary for CBS, is the best NFL analyst of all time.

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I mean, if you can think of something that will bring 100 million Americans together, other

0:39.8

than Super Bowl, I can't at this moment, outside of voting, think off the top of my head

0:45.0

what does it?

0:46.2

Our country is extremely polarized right now, but this Sunday, we will all come together

0:51.0

for that most secret of American traditions.

0:54.1

The Super Bowl halftime show.

0:58.0

And some football.

1:05.0

Today, the Athletics Richard Ditch, who covers sports media, walks us through what to expect

1:10.2

in the broadcast of this year's Super Bowl, from poems to commercials to COVID messaging,

1:17.0

and why he believes Tony Romo, who will be in the booth, is the best NFL analyst of all

1:22.8

time.

1:23.8

He's very likeable, and I think people just like being around him in a broadcast of your

1:28.9

viewers.

1:29.9

So, maybe the best sports television hire in the last 10 to 20 years, it's certainly undoubtedly

1:36.6

CBS sports his best television hire in the last 20 for sure.

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