In fact, I’d go right ahead and put him at the top. If you’re my age, there’s a small canon of studio show hosts whose authority over the greater sporting world, and all of its moral complexity, felt total: Bob Costas, Jim McKay, James Brown, Stuart Scott, etc. In fact, every broadcast is special when it’s in Fowler’s hands. To spare you the awkwardness, all I’ll you is that I was fucking DYING. Since I can’t find video of this segment anywhere on the internet (consider this post a surreptitious plea for someone out there to unearth it a friend of mine at ESPN was unable to do so), I enter real “I guess you had to be there” territory in describing the comedic majesty of this segment to you. They used still shots of Beano and Holtz for the visual back and forth, and replaced their mouths with Fowler’s and Pendergast’s respectively. And so, for this episode, producers had Fowler as Beano interview Pendergast as Holtz. But 1990s College GameDay was no ordinary pregame show. If you watch any pregame show now, GameDay included, you’re likely to get canned arguments, doomed betting tips, Rob Riggle for some reason, and a handful of soft-focus profiles about a player who’s either really good, just lost his foot in an accident, or both. You can watch Beano make that prediction, which would later prove spectacularly wrong, live on the air. If you’re too young to remember Beano, who is now deceased, he’s the man who confidently predicted that Ron Powlus would win “at least two” Heisman trophies and national titles for ND before Powlus had ever set foot on campus. For his part, Fowler could do his own flawless impression of his on-air colleague Beano Cook.
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