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The perfect NFL Sunday broadcast

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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LAS VEGAS, NV – FEBRUARY 19: Sportscaster Brent Musburger appears before a game between the New Mexico Lobos and the UNLV Rebels at the Thomas

The National Football League. You know, that thing that you use to avoid going to the Farmers Market every Sunday?

Millions of football fans watch their team but can’t stand the announcers. Whether it be a play-by-play guy who doesn’t show much emotion or one that shows too much emotion with catch phrases and the like.

It seems like no football fan is ever happy with their NFL coverage. I’m here to fix that.

Here is the perfect NFL broadcast schedule for Sunday, from the pregame show all the way through the postgame wrap-up. This is the perfect list of old school and new school, dramatic and comical. The ideal group of people that would make you come back to watch again Sunday after Sunday.

First let’s start with the pregame show.

Pregame Host – Brent Musburger

Is he old? Yeah. Is he one of the best pregame show hosts ever? Yeah.

As much as I love Musburger doing play-by-play, he’s really at his best as the table-setter for the day’s NFL action. His best work came on the NFL Today in the 1970s through the 1980s. Plus you get to hear his iconic “You’re looking live!” scanning the various sites for NFL games on a particular Sunday. Look, I see nothing wrong with Curt or James but Brent gives a bit of a dramatic flair that’s needed for the NFL pregame show.

Pregame Analysts – Howie Long, Terry Bradshaw and Jimmy Johnson 

Terry Bradshaw interviews Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady on Super Bowl XXXVI at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, LA., 2/3/02. Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect.

Yeah I plucked three members of the same broadcast team to join Brent. So what, you want to fight about it? The reason I picked these three is because they’ve got great chemistry and all offer something to the broadcast.

Long gives you the solid analysis, Bradshaw gives you the funny and hilarious lines while Johnson dabbles in both from a championship-winning coaches perspective. Now what about the game….

Aug 8, 2015; Canton, OH, USA; John Madden (left) and Jonathan Ogden during the 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Broadcast Team-John Madden and Pat Summerall 

If I want to listen to one NFL broadcast. This is the team I’m listening to. Their credentials speak for themselves.

– 22 Seasons broadcasting the NFL on both CBS and FOX

– 8 Super Bowls

Yeah, I think they deserve to be doing the game. With Summerall’s solid simple but dramatic storytelling and Madden’s fumbling, bumbling yet insightful analysis is the perfect compliment. One thing you could always appreciate about Madden and Summerall is that when they were in their prime, they never really stepped on each other. Each guy would make a solid observation which stems from both having lengthy careers in the NFL as a player or coach.

Next you need sideline reporters…

Pam Oliver and Will McDonough

Look, I don’t care if Pam Oliver’s hair is umm, unkept at times. She’s still much better than Erin Andrews and I’m going to die on this hill, come join me. In all seriousness, one thing I’ve always appreciated about Oliver is her willingness to ask the tough questions and calling a coach out for a decision. That’s always garnered my respect.

As for Will McDonough, the long-departed Boston Globe writer was a fixture on NFL sidelines for many years as the “news and notes” man for CBS and NBC. Before Jay Glazer, there was Will and he would be just as good as Glazer. The duo gives you the perfect dose of non-biased and informative journalistic reporting that’s missing from broadcasts today.

So where do we go after the games are over?

Aug 8, 2015; Canton, OH, USA; Chris Berman emcees the 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Postgame Crew – Chris Berman, Stuart Scott and Tom Jackson 

Look, I know what you’re gonna say. Hate on Berman all you want but nobody, and I mean nobody, does a postgame show like Chris Berman.

There was a time when NFL Primetime was THE postgame show. You really had no other options. Berman along with Tom Jackson was the perfect way to end Sunday leading into the Sunday night game on ESPN. Someone who was just as good doing highlights and hosting was Stuart Scott, putting his energy and entertaining way of telling the day’s events would put a smile on anybody’s face even if your team lost.

There you have it, your perfect Sunday broadcast from start to finish. Think you can do it better? Leave a comment below or on Twitter and Facebook.

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