Here is my initial branding suggestion for your football talk show. I think it's more important to convey that this is about football (specifically the NFL), than it is to convey talk show. Thus, I went the professional emblem/shield route for my idea: #37
I have some additional revisions I am finalizing as we speak as well, but feel free to comment on this in the meantime. I am confident we can nail down the perfect look for you, as this is right up my alley.
Alright, here are some additional revisions for your review...
#38 is the exact same design as #37, but on a red shaded background. This way you can see how versatile the logo is when going onto any colored background, besides white. The silver borders will help it pop on blue, red, black, white or anything else.
#39 has the stripes removed from the shield, so you can decide if you like them there or not. I also messed the hierarchy of the typography, where your names are closer in size to the main title.
#40 is the same as #39, but I brought the stripes back in. I also changed the visual layout a bit and added a star at the bottom to balance it all out.
And just in case you want the subtext portion to be more engrained in the rest of the text design, here are a couple variations on how we could present that part of the text: #53 with audio waves, & #54 without