Army-Navy brings out best and worst in analyst

AS the Army-Navy analyst, CBS’s Gary Danielson had a strong game, especially explaining what makes a rollout-option offense work or fail. But in his first 25 years of broadcasting he never referred to the self-evident act of running straight ahead as longform, silly-form “running downhill.” Now, he does.

Speaking of silly-talk football fads, whatever happened to the “bubble screen” pass? Five, six years ago, we’d never heard of it. Then, we heard it a lot. Now? All gone!

When a knucklehead ran on the field, Danielson was sharp to remind us the game was in Baltimore, where in 1971 Colts’ linebacker Mike Curtis smashed a fan who’d run on the field and grabbed the ball.

But CBS missed a Baltimore connection when a graphic identified “the Poe Boys” — Army wide receivers and brothers Edgar and Christian Poe, along with Edgar Allan Poe. The latter lived and died in Baltimore.

Getting goose-bumpy watching both Army and Navy do their stop-everything traditional and sincere honor to their schools and country at the end of Saturday’s game, brought to mind Chris Russo’s take on Army-Navy as a game, because neither is generally ranked very high, “that does nothing for me.”

If the Navy chaplain who spoke Saturday’s pregame invocation had been followed by Aretha Franklin’s Thanksgiving Day national anthem, Army-Navy would be wrapping up ... right about now.

New Jersey’s St. Peter’s Peacocks, school colors blue and white, Saturday played Maryland on BTN wearing all black uniforms. On FS1, UMass, maroon and white, wore all gray versus Providence, which is kinda stuck because its traditional colors are black and white.

BTN graphics identified the team in black as the one in blue although neither wore blue. FS1 identified the team in gray as the one in red, although neither wore red.

Despite beating UNLV by 49, Saturday on ESPN, Duke coach/saint Mike Krzyzewski played starters 34, 30 and 29 minutes. And, from his 15-man roster, he played only 10.

When the Redskins play on local TV, as they did Sunday, their yellow shoes appear, after almost every play, as penalty flags.

Based on what we heard from FOX’s Kevin Bur- khardt and John Lynch during Skins-Eagles, the key to victory for both teams was “getting off the field” — once known as forcing the other team to punt.

In service to PSL holders, Woody Johnson’s team should be placed in escrow. Sunday on CBS, the Jets and the 49ers broke the modern record for showboating by teams with a combined record of 4-20.

Linda Babajko, 30 years a Human Resources officer at The Post and the go-to gal for so many of us lost in small print, is winding it up. Thanks, Linda — a lot, too.