"(Mike) Tirico doesn't do the opening monologue. So what am I going to do?" Collinsworth asked. "I could lean out, but it'd be stupid. I don't know what you do. Do you just do it for effect"
The circular path will begin at Guaranteed Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox, before stopping at other Chicago stadiums including Wrigley Field. Books will be given to students at Jahn Elementary School in Chicago at the end of the walking tour.
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."