Always cool. Always composed. Always analytical.
That's how Frank Gifford is remembered by Al Michaels, who worked with him in the "Monday Night Football" booth for 12 years.
"So many of us, especially in these high-pressure, high-profile businesses, there's a tendency to have these knee-jerk responses to things," Michaels said. "That was never Frank. Frank was always the guy who would assess it. He would do it quietly. Then he would very often have something on the back end, when everything had calmed down, that was well thought out.
"Frank never wasted any energy flying off the handle.