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Strahan: A new kind of star for Fox
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So why exactly is Giants great Michael Strahan starring in a Fox sitccom entitled "Brothers" this fall? (And not a bad one either, with Carl Weathers, CCH Pounder and Chill Mitchell on the front line.)
And what does he think of the Plaxico Burress indictment? And why did he make this and other career choices when that other remarkable career ended? And what does he really think about his colleagues like Terry Bradshaw, and Jimmy Johnson and Howie Long at "NFL Sunday?" And...
Here's what he had to sayy at the press tour yesterday...
"One, the Plaxico Burress situation. I mean, I think it’s unfortunate that we see a guy who’s very talented kind of inflict something on himself that now he has to pay a big price for, possibly with jail time, possibly with his career, something that could easily have been avoided probably by just making a better decision and being a little smarter about it. Now, where it goes from here, I have no idea. I just hope it works out to what’s fair. I
think it works out to a situation where he has learned a lesson, can get his life back on track.
"And as far as why I do this? I do it because it’s fun,man. You know, the great thing about playing 15 years?I don’t have to work. That’s the greatest thing. So now if I do “FOX NFL Sunday,” I’m doing that because Ilove being around the guys, it keeps me around football,and we have fun. I never thought I’d look forward tobeing at work at 5:30 in the morning on a Sunday to look at one guy who’s going bald and who they say can’t spell cat if you spot him the “A” and the “C” and the “T.”And then you’ve got another guy whose head is about as big as this table, the two put together. And a guy whose hair doesn’t move.
Tags: michael strahan , "brothers , " fox , Fox NFL Sunday , CCH Pounder , Carl Weathers , Chill Mitchell
