Yeah, good thing I passed the buck and had Senior Editor David Medsker handle the editing-down process for these transcripts. His declaration: there was a whooooooole lot of filler…so much so, in fact, that he only excised two bits from the entire proceedings.
Would Keyshawn Johnson ever bail out on his ESPN commentator gig to go back to the game? “I could do a lot of different things,” he says, “but that’s not going to happen. I know you have to ask that question, but it’s almost a question that is just a wasted question, because it’s not going to happen. I’m not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind’s made up. I’m done. My kids love it. I love it. I live up the street. I love the weather here. It’s great.”
(Yeah, don’t put too much stock in that confidence. Ron Jaworski posed the hypothetical question, “What if it’s Roger Clemens money?” Johnson’s immediate response: “Well, that’s different.”)
A few minutes later, Jaworski was posed a question himself, one that’s been asked of just about every sports person who’s popped up on a panel: what’s the deal with NFL not having a franchise in L.A.? “There should be an NFL franchise in Los Angeles,” declared Jaworski. “The four years I spent here, ’73, ’74, ’75, and ’76, were magnificent seasons. Chuck Knox was the head coach. We were in the playoffs all four years, three NFC Championship games, the Coliseum was packed every week. It was a great place for football. You see it at USC. You see it at UCLA. The fans love football in this area. It is mind-boggling, to me, that there’s not an NFL franchise in Los Angeles. There should be.”
