We’ve been closely watching the ESPN pregame show for any hint of an acknowledgement by Chris Berman of that priceless off-air but on-tape blowup from eight years ago, which surfaced on the Internet for the first time this week.

Here it is.

So near the end of the first 60 minutes of a three-hour marathon, Berman was talking and the camera had not come back to him.  When it finally did, he said with hand beckoning, “Don’t be afraid to come over here now.”

It likely was a coincidence, but it definitely takes on new meaning in light of Berman’s profanity-rich rant.