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Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I think you guys are discounting the loss of Michaels on football AND basketball. Like him or not, he's a solid play-by-play guy. I've never heard of that Breen guy, not that I watch basketball. And Tirico, while solid, is not that well known. And isn't he a golf guy anyway?

So they are giving up something in no longer having Michaels' services. Now, whether they had already decided to give up on him, or whether he was internally pulling a Herm Edwards and forced them into making this deal and getting what they could out of it (since NBC wanted him so badly), we probably will never know.

I think you're discounting the impact of Oswald the Rabbit.