"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."
"(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"
"Collinsworth had either lost his voice before the game or was in the process of losing it during the game. Whichever is the case, the sports media noticed."
“I understand there’s going to be a transition period of time, but we’ve already spent a lot of time together, obviously, getting ready for this season,” Collinsworth said.
"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."