I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

It was there that he masterminded the inspiration for the eccentricities that surround Media Day at the Super Bowl. He would later follow Breslin to the Long Island Press and New York Herald Tribune. After spending the 1970s with NBC as an NBC Nightly News and Today Show correspondent he moved to ABC World News Tonight and 20/20 at ABC in the 1980s.