"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."
"It’s sad and surreal that he’s not in that chair and won’t ever be in that chair again because he was so good at what he did, and he was so good to the people he did it with and for."
"Gumbel first joined CBS Sports in 1989 where he contributed to its coverage of the National Football League, including working as the host of 'The NFL Today.'"
"You get excited like a fan would – you inform – but ultimately the game is the show, and you’re just kind of there to supplement what we’re watching."
"I do sit there and think – I go, ‘If I didn’t watch these games; if I didn’t watch the tournament games [or] if I didn’t watch Ohio State, would anybody really care?'"
"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."