In 2004, he added studio work to his duties, replacing Suzy Kolber as the host of NFL Matchup, an X's and O's football show; joining him are Louis Riddick and Greg Cosell.

[6] In 2018, he published Philly Special: The Inside Story of How the Philadelphia Eagles Won Their First Super Bowl Championship.

[7] In 2007, he and fellow sports journalist Reuben Frank put out The Paolantonio Report: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players, Teams, Coaches, and Moments in NFL History.

He went on to make the provocative claim in his 2008 folk history, How Football Explains America,[9] that the competition informed the public morality on integration and consciously developed in the mid-20th century into an almost mythic spectacle.

[10] With its origins in the closing of the Turnerian frontier, the NFL league, rather than baseball, apparently broke down the color barrier in sports.