Commerce Township – It has been nearly a month since Jim Brandstatter was unceremoniously fired by WJR as the Detroit Lions’ analyst on radio broadcasts, a job he had held for 31 years. And after the initial sting, he’s fine, just fine, thank you.
He will continue working Michigan games as the play-by-play radio announcer, calling them with fellow former Michigan offensive lineman Dan Dierdorf. But gone are the crazy travel weekends, getting from one game to the next, that once seemed more like an adventure than the test of endurance they had become.