[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Nov 18 2005, 02:08 AM\'][quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Nov 18 2005, 01:00 AM\']What would your thoughts be about adding Bob Costas to the list? Would he fit?[/quote]
I would...and after he decided to stop talking about the Natalee Holloway case, I realized he even had a conscience. ;-)[/quote]
Most good sportscasters are good broadcasters. That's why people like Bob Costas and Bryant Gumbel can effortlessly move back and forth. (As off-putting as Gumbel can be, he is the epitome of charm and understated grace when he fills in for Regis on the AM show.)
Going back a way, it's also why Dick Enberg and Vin Scully made decent game show hosts. I remember people being astonished back in 1972 when Jim McKay did such a good job covering the news of the Munich Olympics, but that's another example of good broadcasters being good broadcasters, no matter the genre. (We all know, though few others do, what a great broadcaster Bill Cullen was.)
Thing is, most good sports people are perfectly content being sports people, so we don't get the chance to see them in some other venue. Because of their relatively lower stature, good game show hosts seem to have more of a desire to work in other fields.
Here's a good one nobody's mentioned: Al Roker.