June 22, 2007

Behave, Suzie — your babysitter tonight is a guy named Jaws

ESPN's Monday Night Football announcing team of Mike Tirico, Tony Kornheiser and Ron Jaworski will have two sideline reporters: Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya.

The gender division of labor — the men in the announcing booth, the women roaming the sidelines to schmooze with players and coaches — is nothing new in sports. But this particular setup is interesting, since it matches Suzy with the man who babysat her when she was a kid.1

1Ron Jaworski was pals, you see, with Suzie's dad, Gene Kolber (known in Allentown, Pa., by his DJ name Gene Kaye). As far as I know, none of them have talked publicly about what stories Ron read Suzy or what games they played. But Tony Kornheiser mentioned the Ron/Suzy babysitting connection on his radio show the other day.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

So he babysat her when he was an NFL quarterback? And she was a teenager? Interesting...