Love Newhart but doubt he could have done as good a job as Burks
Maybe when it came to stuff not involving the microphone but can you image Newhart on the microphone as a Referee?!?!?! Especially with IR ?
I can picture it now...he puts the headset on and "accidentally " leaves his announcement microphone turned on so the massess can hear his side of the conversation with the booth..."Hello Jim...Are you there???...What's that clinking noise? Oh the sound of the ice cubes rattling in your empty glass....No , no problem, go ahead and get a refill, we can wait......You're back? Great! So what do you see in the video? Video, you know, the pictures on that TV monitor in front of you....It's completly dark on the screen? ...Tell me Bob, is the power on?.....There should be a button someplace in the lower right corner of the monitor that you can push to power it on......You found it? ...Great!!! So what are you seeing Jim?......Uhhh Jim, I think you are on the wrong Channel, we ARE in Dallas but I do not know anyone named Debbie.....
You get the point...some of you fellows write some more script and I will send it to Mr Newhart so he can consider doing a piece as a white hat with the IT headset on.
Check this out,....he is already in on it!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/bob-newhart-fun-resemblance-football-referee/story?id=28182492