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Matt Millen talks a good game, just ask NBC
mlive.com - 1/6/2009
Matt Millen talks a good game, just ask NBC
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Matt Millen is going to the Super Bowl. After eight years of the most crushing failure by any team president or general manager in modern sports history, Millen is being rewarded with riches and fame.
NBC fumbles by adding Matt Millen to studio show
mlive.com - 1/5/2009
NBC fumbles by adding Matt Millen to studio show
— mlive.com — It's bad enough Matt Millen ruined the Detroit Lions. He's now laughing about it as a member... of NBC's "Football Night in America" broadcast team during the NFL playoffs. The former president and general manager of the Lions joined Bob Costas, Dan Patrick, Keith Olbermann and Jerome Bettis ... (more) NBC fumbles by adding Matt Millen to studio show

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Wild card weekend's five most valuable people
sports.yahoo.com - 1/5/2009
Wild card weekend's five most valuable people
— sports.yahoo.com — Honorable Mention: Matt Millen . I don't know that Matt Millen actually deserves an award, but it's... got to be a long time since anyone's given him one, so I say he at least gets a mention here. I maintain that when Cris Collinsworth is absent, ... (more) Wild card weekend's five most valuable people

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BEWARE, MATT MILLEN WILL RUIN YOUR CAREER
theworldofisaac.com - 1/6/2009
BEWARE, MATT MILLEN WILL RUIN YOUR CAREER
— theworldofisaac.com — As I sat there and watched Matt Millen on NBC, I felt nauseous. My whopper from earlier... that afternoon started to creep its way up my esophagus. I was disgusted. Of all the people NBC could hire as an analyst, they hired Matt Millen? Honestly, who's ... (more) BEWARE, MATT MILLEN WILL RUIN YOUR CAREER

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The Sports Union:  Millen Going to Super Bowl with NBC

Shutdown Corner:  Matt Millen's performance is not being well-received in Detroit

SPORTS COUCH POTATO:  Millen merits mic despite Motown mess

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Millen Going to Super Bowl with NBC
The Sports Union — ... To reaffirm the cliché ‘It’s not what you know it’s who you know,’ NBC tapped former Detroit Lions General Manager Matt Millen as one of its Super Bowl commentators .  It turns out that winning or being even remotely successful (Millen was 31-97 in 8 years) is not a criterion to work at NBC during one of its biggest broadcasts of the year.  Why choose Millen when there are ...

Matt Millen's performance is not being well-received in Detroit
Shutdown Corner — It seems that no one in Detroit wants to see Matt Millen on television unless it's during a public execution. It's Tuesday, and the articles killing Millen for taking the job and NBC for hiring him are still coming. Today, it's Tom Kowalski of mlive.com, but he isn't quite as vicious as Drew Sharp of the Free Press or Brian VanOchten of mlive.com were yesterday. Non-Detroit-centric takes on Millen are a little bit more even-handed, like Richard Sandomir's in the New York Times. And ESPN's Tony Kornheiser positively gushes about ...

Millen merits mic despite Motown mess
SPORTS COUCH POTATO — ... Saturday for the New York Daily News, Bob Raissman writes about the negative buzz Millen's TV comeback has created in some circles, like in the Detroit media. Raissman himself opines Millen is "being used" by NBC to generate publicity for the Feb. 1 extravaganza in Tampa, calling him "just a hired mouth in a cameo role." He goes on to say "there’s a good chance this all will backfire on NBC. Out-of-control buzz can be detrimental to a network." ...

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