A day after Cris Collinsworth explained to Kay Adams why he no longer does the patented “Collinsworth Slide”, Karsch and Anderson on 97.1 The Ticket are clamoring for its return.
“Now that it is Tirico, he doesn’t do it. The question was why not? Because everybody loved seeing the Collinsworth slide,” Doug Karsch said. “They loved seeing him slide. They’d mess around, they had him slide in from the other side once, there’s all kinds of internet memes. And when the season started, he’s not doing it anymore. So Kay asked him why.”
The pair then played the clip from Kay Adams asking Collinsworth about the absence of the slide, and then recapped the fan reaction.
“People got pissed when the first week of the season happened,” Gator Anderson said. “Woah, woah, woah where’s the slide? What happened to the slide? So he had to explain it and now we know,” Anderson said.
“The question is, does he bring it back?”, asked Karsch.
“I think he should for a game, just to gauge the reaction,” Anderson countered. “He says it would look stupid and it probably would, but you know what we like? We like when people look stupid sometimes. We know why he’d be doing it. It’d be to appease the people that watch the show. It’s ok. They ain’t all gems, but that one, we like it.”
Karsch then said “the slide” makes Collinsworth a more likeable announcer, and equated it to Lee Corso’s headgear pick on College GameDay, noting that he made the beginning of the Sunday Night Football broadcast appointment television just to see the slide.
