It’s back to the future, SportsCenter-style for NBC. Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann will hook back up on television for NBC's "Football Night in America", which airs on Sundays. The last time Patrick and Olbermann did ???"The Big Show”? 11 years. Since then Olbermann has gone on to MSNBC and Patrick to his own syndicated radio show and Sports Illustrated. As reported by Bloomberg News: Patrick's deal with NBC Sports includes working on "Football Night in America" and the years that the network has the Super Bowl, as well as covering the Olympics beginning in 2010. Patrick is contractually prevented from working on NFL telecasts and the Olympics in Beijing for a year. NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol had spoken a year ago to ESPN execs about Patrick, and it seemed to be OK.But Ebersol said that in talking to ESPN chief George Bodenheimer and ESPN executive vp John Skipper, things changed a bit after they realized Patrick would be reuniting with Ol...
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