So after indulging the Lovely Bride's request to stare in the direction of the television and watching Roger Fedderer wiggle his jiggle all over the US Open final, I finally get to flip over to see my Cowboys take on the Giants.

NBC's Football Night in America was on...

And I recognized the grotesque sound emanating from the corner of my family room... it was the sound, the arrogant pompous know it all sound of one of the world's most illiterate nightly television talk-show hosts - Keith Olbermann.

I did a double take thinking that I was on MSNBC, or having a bad dream, etc...

No bad dream it was Olby sitting there with his arrogant waft of grey hair reflecting poorly off my HDTV screen.

Actually I need to utter a confession here... there was a time when I could tolerate Olby. Usually after a gallon or so of Guiness and as long as he was hosting the 3am repeat of SportsCenter.

Pretty much any other scenario where I am punished so badly that I am forced to hear his malevolent drone is utterly intolerable.

I also was reminded that Verizon FiOS does not carry MSNBC or Olbermann's insidious nightly excuse for a television show. Which might explain why more often than not when you compare the ratings of my radio show which airs in New York vs. Olbermann's nightly viewership on a "national" cable network - you see who has the larger audience...

But aside from my personal reprehension against the man who gave new definition to the "worst person in the world" a thought crossed my mind.

Why would NBC go out of its way to drag up this has been of a sports anchor, who has fewer viewers than I do listeners, and who has said perhaps the greatest single collection of most insane statements ever assembled?

It was merely a couple of years ago when Rush Limbaugh - my talk radio colleague - who has perhaps the largest single media audience of anyone in America - was summarily dismissed from Sunday Night football for a very accurate statement about the reality of Donovan McNabb's rather apparent "overratedness."

Rush who knows far more about both broadcasting AND football than the grating and irritating Olby, can't say something TRUE about one player. BUT Olby can lie on nearly a nightly basis about almost everything in life - and he gets the football gig.

And to add insult to injury - Bob Costas (my former favorite midget of all time) says to Olby, "used to love listening to you in my home, now I love listening to you sitting next to me."

Oh for the love of all that's holy...