Gus Alert: Gus Johnson moves to FOX from CBS

Our man Gus/Courtesy: thepenaltyflagblog.com

Well, the good news is, we'll still get our Gus fix during the NFL season. However, we will no longer get our March madness featuring the maddest announcer of them all.

Gus Johnson, he of the crazy end of game call, as we reported last week, no longer works for CBS Sports. But, he will be officially announced as part of the FOX Sports team today.

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Okay, we are taking deep breaths here. The cult of Gus will continue with him doing NFC games (when/if the NFL resumes) and Pac 12 football. However, most of us east of the Mississippi won't see or don't watch Pac 12 football.

Supposedly, some in the world of CBS Sports were not happy that Gus had rapidly become a huge part of the NCAA Tournament voice. And considering the ego's involved in TV, that doesn't surprise us. Disappoint us, yes, surprise no.

Guess that means we'll get more of the "Golf Whisperer" (Jim Nantz).

Since we won't get basketball Gus anymore, re-live a video we posted awhile back with Gus describing great moments in history. Thanks Funny-or-Die:

Great Moments in History with Gus Johnson from Gus Johnson

Gus Is Out...

((HT: CBS/youtube))

But it's not all bad...

Gus and CBS couldn't agree on a new deal, so they've gone their separate ways...

There's talk he'll end up somewhere very high-profile, sometime very soon...

We always have this...


And this...
((HT: NFL on CBS))


And this...
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Looks like Gus has "running away from CBS speed..."

Phil Simms doesn't appear to like Desmond Howard

Phil Simms/courtesy: tvguide.com

And in fact, Mr. Simms, the elder, threatened to hit Howard, a college football analyst for ESPN. Simms, CBS's NFL analyst was ticked off at Howard for criticizing his son Matt on the air.

Seriously. According to Howard's Twitter account, police had to step in. Simms however, denied that part of it, though didn't deny the two had a heated coversation.

Desmond Howard/courtesy: daylife.com

For his part, Simms denies the threats of violence, but doesn't deny getting pissed off...or that the two argued.

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Richard Dietsch of SI.com got a Simms's statement in a CBS Press release:

"Desmond and I were having a private conversation that became heated. But at no time was there ever a chance of any physical confrontation, or that I felt the police officer assigned to me by the event planners for my appearance needed to separate the two of us."


While we try and stifle our laughter over this boys-will-be boys issue, it does raise a few questions. Friend of OSG Sports Gil Tyree often talks on his radio show, SportsTalk at the PositivePub (Mondays at 1pm www.voicamericasports.com--We are guests on the show), about analysts being critical of kids not realizing the implications of their statements. In this case, we think, Simms is a rather pissed off dad.

It's not like they'd do this....would they?