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00:00Are you ready? I like to time my entrance for maximum effect.
00:04When did you ever go for minimum effect, especially with Rune around?
00:08Give me 30 seconds.
00:19She moves with grace and purpose. The right hand sweeping across the full lip, so moist,
00:26so succulent. What style this woman possesses. The tawny brown of those eyes, the sheer femininity.
00:36She, the mother of two, the constant support of a devoted and undeserving husband,
00:44though not a man without his charms, but it is she who stares the passions.
00:50She who fills each day with endless laughter. She who walks in beauty like the night.
01:02What's another 30 seconds?
01:04Rune, listen to me. If you don't or won't or can't, I'm gonna have to deal with Howard myself.
01:22Damn it, we lost to Kate and Allie.
01:24Well, maybe it's these match-ups you've been giving us.
01:27Maybe it's your announcing team.
01:30Uh-uh, somehow I can feel this working around to Howard Cosell again.
01:33It's unavoidable.
01:42He's unavoidable.
01:45Well, Leonard agrees with you.
01:48Are you with me? Congratulations.
01:50If he starts delivering the Sermon on the Mount, I'm out of here.
01:55You gotta give the devil his due.
01:56Oh, man, this don't look so good. There's only room for three of us.
02:04Don't sweat it, O.J. If they bring him back, I'm out of here.
02:09Leonard!
02:10No, not you, Howard. Emmy, I'm delighted to see you.
02:13Oh, it's wonderful to see you, Leonard.
02:16I'm so grateful to you for coming.
02:18Leonard, you invite, I arrive. I know what you meant to my career.
02:22Well, that's flattering, but you made your career.
02:26Coach, great to see you guys.
02:31O.J.?
02:32Right, not the same without you, Coach.
02:35So I've observed.
02:36We've observed it, too. The network misses you, Howard.
02:41I'm content, Leonard.
02:42I'm not. Would you excuse us, O.J.?
02:47Howard, I...
02:50Did you notice the sign up there?
02:52Yes.
02:53I...
02:56I have a proposition for you.
02:58Well, what's up, Leonard?
03:01Would you consider coming back to do the Super Bowl?
03:04The show misses you, Howard. It's not the same.
03:07Your booth seems to have a full complement already, Leonard.
03:11I'm going to move Simpson out. He's a disaster.
03:14I can't understand a thing the man says.
03:16Leonard, I don't know what to say.
03:20What? Go back to the NFL? After all we've been through?
03:26And he's right, of course, Leonard. I can't go back.
03:31Besides, despite the vicissitudes of our personal relationship,
03:35I could not countenance a move to usurp and embarrass Simpson.
03:39I can understand what you...
03:41Let me say something else.
03:43Your package is in trouble, Leonard.
03:45Roone is an absentee landlord.
03:48News preoccupies him, as perhaps it should.
03:52As for the broadcast, Roone has fallen so in love with his jocks,
03:55he forgets what made the franchise a hit.
03:59No, Howard. Roone knows there's no show without you.
04:02Strange, then, isn't it?
04:04That he failed to pick up a phone last summer and asked me to continue.
04:09That was a mistake. One I'd like to rectify.
04:12Without you, Howard, it's not Monday Night Football anymore.
04:16Now it's just Football on Monday Night.
04:19Now you're telling it like it is, Leonard.
04:21Howard...
04:25I'm sorry, I'm tired.
04:29Emmy has spoken.
04:31Sorry.
04:32Now, shall we eat?
04:35Eat? Eat? I've lost my appetite.