He’s out of town but he is not yet off of our televisions. Former Lions General Mangler Matt Millen, hired as an “expert” analyst of professional football by perennial ratings wallflower NBC a few weeks ago after architecting the league’s worst-ever team, has not managed to move that network’s ratings to fourth place, yet.

In a sign of “Times are tough and we will hire anyone for the right price,” NBC Sports’ Chairman Dick Ebersole called Millen “one hell of a broadcaster.”

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