06-28-2022, 12:04 PM
(06-27-2022, 09:32 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: I don't think Mike Brown telling Boomer to go be an analyst was the nice gesture Daugherty is making it out to be. Brown didn't want to pay Boomer the money and basically told him to leave.
I don't remember it that way. At that time, being on MNF was THE COVETED job in football, and openings for that gig came around once a decade. It was the only prime time game. Boomer could make just as much in the booth that year as on the field, and he could make it until he was an old man.
Also, Boomer wasn't too keen on coming back. He saw the schedule the next year as being brutal. Boomer always saw a life after football, and the time to find his life's work was upon him.
