Our comment is about the Season Finale 2/11/2009, which we just finished watching via TiVo, Friday 2/13/2009.
The BEST way to get rid of Phil Sims “Pet Peeves” is to GET RID of PHIL SIMMS. Phil Simms is as useful as an Old Dirty Mop to try to spruce up a clean a floor. Phil comes across as an old Dirty Mop. Phil Simms is absolutely NO good in this position and hope that you will not be blinded by that one comment read on the show tonight praising Phil. Was that written by Phil under a code name or they must have confused the crew and names. Phil contributed the most negative atmosphere and seemed to disagree with everyone, that ONLY HE was the right one. The only good thing Phil did all season was to win the pick segment, pure luck. We can not stand Phil Simms on this show PLEASE cut him from the crew for Inside the NFL next season (We also did not like him as announcer but we could watch a different game or turn on the radio. On the other hand and the direct opposite was the addition this season of Warren Sapp. Warren was an excellent addition to the Inside the NFL team. We will look forward to seeing Warren on Inside the NFL next season. James Brown was ok but think you could do better with a Football Player not a person from basketball and also find someone with more charisma with the audience. Chris Collinsworth was and is fantastic and the main reason we continued to watch when Showtime took over the show. If it had been just Phil Simms we would not have made it through the first show of the season before we turned it off.
We do NOT understand why Dan Marino was not brought along with Chris Collinsworth.
Please bring back Dan Marino, he is SO MUCH BETTER than Phil Simms. We should not even use Phil’s name in the same sentence. Who was responsible for not keeping Dan and bringing on Phil? Maybe that decision maker should be cut.
Our Plea to you for next season on Inside the NFL, fall 2009, is please keep Chris Collinsworth, Warren Sapp and bring back Dan Marino. We will leave the MC up to you keep James Brown for another year, give him a second chance maybe or bring on a past Football Person player or coach, a Football person.

At the start of this past season we too were very upset when HBO dropped Inside the NFL. What were they thinking? We feel very strongly that this was an incorrect decision, a real loss of a great number of faithful viewers, and that it must have been made by someone out of touch totally with NFL Fans.

THANK YOU SHOWTIME for picking up Inside the NFL weekly program. We will look forward to your improvements over the off season. Please do take into consideration what we have taken the time to write to you about. Please do CUT PHIL SIMMS! If you would take a true survey we are sure you would find 90% of the people who watched this season would agree, CUT PHIL SIMMS from Inside the NFL program.
Thank you for listening (reading) and thanking you in advance for cutting Phil Simms.

Thanks for keeping this show alive for ALL OF US HARD CORE FOOTBALL LOVERS!

Sincerely,
Lynn I. Swanger