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| The Dan Patrick Show | |
| Genre | Sports talk |
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| Running time | 3 hours |
| Country |  USA |
| Starring | Dan Patrick |
| Air dates | September 13, 1999 to |
| Website The Dan Patrick Show |
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The Dan Patrick Show is a syndicated sports talk show that is hosted by former ESPN personality Dan Patrick. It is currently produced by the Content Factory and is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, and broadcasts live every day from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Pacific time. The Dan Patrick show is also simulcast from 7 to 9 Pacific on XM Sports Nation, on XM Satellite Radio.
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Dan Patrick attracted some high-profile guests to his show including Mike Davis after announcing his resignation as head coach at Indiana, David Stern after he announced the new NBA dress code, and Mike Sherman after being fired from the Green Bay Packers. Frequently, non sports celebrities appear on the show, including Jay Z, Drew Carey and Usher. Some of the weekly guests include Reggie Miller, Michael Irvin, Rick Reilly, Sean Salisbury, Peter King, Charles Barkley and Peter Gammons.
Patrick is also known for getting the most out of his guests, including making bets with them and sometimes getting personal. For example, in January 2006, Kurt Warner, quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL, was a guest on the show. Their bet was that if Warner gets the Cardinals to the Super Bowl by 2008, then Patrick would personally campaign for Warner to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Another bet Patrick made was with the rap star Nelly. Nelly said the St. Louis Rams would win the Super Bowl in 2007, and Dan had the field. If Dan won, he got to name a song on Nelly's next CD, and, if Nelly won, Dan had to appear in one of Nelly's music videos.
The show was broadcast on ESPN Radio from 1999 to 2007; broadcasts originated in Bristol, Connecticut during most of the year and from New York, New York during the NBA season. The show debuted on September 13, 1999 and was heard weekdays from 1 p.m. ET to 4 p.m. ET. It was often viewed as the signature program on ESPN Radio at the time, primarily because of Patrick's high profile at ESPN/ABC and his ability to attract well-known and popular guests.
The ESPN Radio SportsCenter anchor was long time ESPN Radio personality Dan Davis. From 1999 till 2004 the co-host of the show was former closer for the Cincinnati Reds Rob Dibble. During this time, ESPN NFL analyst Sean Salisbury was a regular third-man-in on the show, though he was never given the title of co-host. Dibble has since moved to The Best Damn Sports Show Period on FSN and weekends on Fox Sports Radio.
The show's producer was Ray Necci and the Board-Op was Phil "The Showkiller" Ceppaglia, earning that nickname when working for the Tony Kornheiser Show. He inadvertently gave Kornheiser the wrong name of the caller, prompting Kornheiser to say that he was killing his show; the nickname stuck ever since. Ceppaglia is also often made fun by Patrick about the time he hung up on Bill Clinton while working on The Dan Patrick Show.
During the 2 p.m. ET hour The Big Show Patrick was reunited with long time SportsCenter co-anchor Keith Olbermann. Olbermann appeared in 2004 and 2005 on just Fridays, but since late 2005 appeared five days a week. The show often broadcasts live at the Super Bowl site during the week before the big game and during ESPN The Weekend at Orlando, Florida. He also previews what's coming up on the 6 p.m. ET edition of SportsCenter, while Olbermann previews what's coming up on his show, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
On July 9th, 2007, Dan announced that he was leaving ESPN and its radio properties. The last live show was aired on August 17, 2007, and Patrick stated that there was no animosity between him and ESPN. However, on July 12, 2007, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Patrick will continue in radio and launch a new nationally syndicated program via Chicago-based Content Factory.[1] From the date of that announcement, Patrick did not appear as host of that timeslot, which was referred to by guest hosts as simply "ESPN Radio." ESPN announced Patrick would remain off-air from ESPN Radio until August 13th for his week-long farewell. He actually returned on August 15th, and finished his final three broadcasts as his "farewell for now tour" shows. During his final shows, clips from memorable interviews were played during the bumper music before each segment, and Dan encouraged listeners to visit his website (www.danpatrick.com) in order to keep up with him in the future. He signed off from his final show by thanking everyone involved with it as well as those who supported him throughout his TV work at ESPN. His concluding remarks were simply, "With that said, thank you. Goodbye...for now."[2]
Guests who appeared on his final show included Bob Costas, Ken Griffey, Jr., Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, and Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy.
The Dan Patrick Show has been revived effective October 1; the Content Factory produces the show while national sales and syndication is handled by Premiere Radio Networks. The program initially began on outlets owned by Clear Channel, but has expanded to many more stations across the United States, both live and tape-delayed depending on the market.
During the run on ESPN Radio, the show accumulated a number of signature sound bites and customs.
Every Monday of the show, Patrick gave out his award for The Homer Call Play of the Week. Voting was online at the ESPN Radio website.
On the ESPN show, callers spoke their height and weight followed by the sound effect of a boxing ring gong (bell). When Rob Dibble was a co-host, he was going through a workout to lose weight and build muscles. He would report his height and weight frequently. The amplified bell sound was introduced after a while and used every time Rob would say his height and weight. Eventually, callers would give their height and weight as well, just to get the gong. Even though Rob had left the show, letter writers and callers sometimes still gave their statistics, followed by the gong. Sometimes producer Phil Ceppaglia (known as "Phil the Showkiller") would comment with "beefy!" or "FAT!" following the gong for callers judged particularly out-of-proportion. In the 2008 version, Dan himself was gonged when he compared his 6 foot 3 inch height to David Letterman's following an appearance on Dave's show.
During baseball season, Phil the Showkiller would barge in with a clip of Gilbert Gottfried shouting, "DING!!!!" right while Dan might be speaking. This meant that a home run was hit in one of the day games. A grand slam was denoted by a clip of country singer Faith Hill singing, "Ba-da-ba-da-ding-ding." On May 11, 2006, a Barry Bonds "Home Run Bell", for every Barry home run during day games, was introduced by Phil "The Showkiller". The bell is the above mentioned Gottfried clip drastically slowed down. Keith Olbermann quoting on the Barry Bonds Bell, "It sounds like something got stuck in the tape player."
Dan has a number of infamous interviews from which sound bites have been replayed, some containing interesting examples of malapropisms:
