About

Howard Burns

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About Howard Burns

House blogger Howard Burns has been a professional journalist for 24 years with stints at The Miami News, Multichannel News and most recently the daily entertainment trade paper The Hollywood Reporter, where he spent 18 years including four as editor and one as editorial director.

Burns’ passion since a very young age has been sports of all varieties. While his memory bank only dates back to age 7, Burns can remember vividly watching the live telecasts of the famed “Ice Bowl” game between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, as well as the 1967 World Series between Red Schoendienst’s St. Louis Cardinals and Dick Williams’ Boston Red Sox. That same year he attended his first live sporting event, a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in which the Cleveland Indians beat the New York Yankees 4-2 on a home run by a third baseman named Max Alvis.

The advent of the pizza pan-sized satellite dish took Burns to new levels of sports saturation, thus ensuring there is some live event to be watched every evening of the year with the exception of Christmas Eve. On that night Burns can be found watching selections from his vast collection of NFL Films DVDs. A sports historian as well, Burns is a staunch believer that the “NFL Sunday Ticket” TV package is the greatest technological innovation since indoor plumbing.

With him as always is Glenn Abel, a longtime ally and fellow expatriate from the Hollywood Reporter. Glenn, a hardcore Gator fan, will be doing the backshop geek thing and contributing occasional items.