Upton Bell Upton Bell ( born 1938 ) is a former American football executive , and now a talk show host and commentator at WCRN Talk AM 830 in Worcester , Massachusetts . He is the son of former National Football League commissioner Bert Bell and Broadway actress Frances Upton . Football executive . Bell ' s first job in football was as a $ 65 - a - week dressing room attendant for the Baltimore Colts in 1960 . After working in the Colts ' scouting department , Bell became the club ' s personnel director . His job included working in sales , publicity , marketing and with the NFL draft . During his early days with the Colts , his brother Bert Bell , Jr . was the team ' s business manager . His responsibilities included scouting and negotiating contracts with and signing of all college recruits . During Bell ' s tenure , the Colts were in one NFL Championship game and two Super Bowl Games , winning Super Bowl V in 1971 under new Head Coach Don McCafferty . Seventeen of the 40 - man roster on that winning team were players drafted during Upton ' s stint as Personnel Director . Bell held the personnel director ' s job until he was hired to become the General Manager of the New England Patriots ( then known as the Bay State Patriots ) in 1971 . At 33 , Bell was the NFL ' s youngest General Manager . One of his first moves with the Patriots was drafting Jim Plunkett with the first overall pick in that year ' s draft . Under his leadership the Patriots improved from 2 - 12 to 6 - 8 . Despite the improvement , Bell wanted to fire head coach John Mazur and hire a coach of his own choosing . The team ' s board of directors agreed that if the Pats lost to the Baltimore Colts , Mazur would be fired . Jim Plunkett landed an 88 - yard pass to Randy Vataha for a 21 - 17 Patriots win . The Patriots finished the following season with a 3 - 11 record and Bell was fired on December 5 . Bell returned to professional football in 1974 with the purchase of the New York Stars . Bell relocated the team to Charlotte , North Carolina where the team was renamed the Charlotte Hornets . This venture would be short - lived due to the folding of the World Football League in 1975 . One of Bell ' s co - owners was Arnold Palmer . Sports announcer . Starting in 1976 , Bell began his media career by making guest appearances on programs such as John Sterling ' s show on WMCA . In 1978 he became co - host of WBZ ' s " Calling All Sports " with newcomer Bob Lobel . Other shows hosted by Bell include Sports Nightly on WHDH - TV ( 1979 – 1980 ) , Sports Line on WEEI ( 1980 – 1984 ) , Sports Beat on WSBK - TV with Joe Fitzgerald , Bob Ryan , and Bob Lobel , the Will and Upton Show with Will McDonough on WBZ - TV ( 1984 – 1988 ) , and New England Sportsphile in 1989 . During the 1989 and 1990 NFL seasons , Bell served as an interviewer for WBZ - TV during their Patriots pregame show and newscasts . Those Bell interviewed for WBZ include George H . W . Bush , Mike Tyson , Joe Montana , Pete Rozelle , Howard Cosell , Don Shula , Deion Sanders , John Hannah , Jim Kelly , Patrick Ewing , and Stephen King . Bell has also been a guest commentator on NECN and WBZ - TV ' s Sports Final . Bell ' s first color commentary experience came at WSMW , where he called college football with Bob Fouracre from 1978 - 1982 . In 1983 , Bell served as the color commentator for the Boston Breakers Professional Football team on WNEV and ESPN and was the studio host for SportsChannel New England ' s Breakers broadcasts . He was the color commentator for Boston College Eagles football radio broadcasts with play - by - play announcers Dan Davis in 1985 and Bob Lobel in 1986 . Lobel and Bell were removed from the BC broadcast booth after one season and unsuccessfully sued for " breach of contract , deceit , negligent misrepresentation " . Bell was also a fill - in color commentator for SportsChannel New England ' s Boston Celtics games . Nationally , Bell worked on PBS Ivy League football games alongside play - by - play announcer Dick Galiette and sideline reporter Sean McDonough in 1984 . Talk radio . Bell has also worked in general talk radio since 1988 , hosting shows on WHDH ( 1988 – 1989 ) , WTAG ( 1992 – 1998 ) , WRPT / WMEX ( 1998 – 2000 ) . He has interviewed George H . W . Bush , Bill Clinton , Henry Kissinger , Ted Kennedy , Geraldine Ferraro , Regis Philbin , Frank McCourt , Jay Leno , Dr . Joyce Brothers , Jackie Mason , Johnny Cochran and Alan Dershowitz . For three consecutive years , the Upton Bell Show was recognized by The Associated Press for Outstanding Talk Show in New England . In November 2010 , Bell and Bob Lobel reunited with a Sunday morning program on WXKS 1200 Radio in suburban Boston .