that going for me, which is nice." After 18 years working for WFLD-TV, Wolf was terminated in February 2006. The reasons for his firing were never made entirely clear, but local media provided two explanations. One was that Wolf's contract was too rich for the station. The other reason involved a pair of incidents that had occurred over the previous six months. The first incident, in September 2005, involved WFLD suspending Wolf for three days after an awkward on-air appearance involving then-WGCI-FM radio personality "Crazy Howard" McGee, who apparently while appearing on WFLD had made a crude, below-the-waist gesture. Wolf turned around and denigrated the gesture during his sports segment, leading to an off-camera incident with a producer. The second incident, at the Chicago Auto Show in February 2006, involving a taped off-beat segment (which never aired) involving Wolf interviewing a man standing outside of the Auto Show in front of his own car. Wolf apparently asked if he could "key" the car, and the man dared him to do so. When Wolf did so, the man became enraged. In December 2006, an independent arbitrator ruled that WFLD had no reason to terminate Wolf, and awarded him full back pay and severance. "Vindication is a relief," Wolf told the Chicago Sun-Times at the time. Work at WMAQ-TV In September 2006, Wolf joined WMAQ-TV (NBC 5) as a traffic and sports reporter. "Traffic and sports? I'm not the first Channel 5 multitasker," Wolf joked to the Chicago Sun-Times in August 2006. "(Legendary Chicago TV anchor) Floyd Kalber once took it upon himself to do the news and weather. He was (nicknamed) 'The Big Tuna.' I'm just a little sardine." In January 2007, Wolf became the host of WMAQ-TV's Barely Today, a freewheeling news and talk show that aired at 4:30 a.m. and that involved him engaging in banter with news anchor Ellee Pai Hong and weatherman Andy Avalos. "I think 4:30 in the morning is a little too prime time-ish for me," Wolf joked to the Chicago Sun-Times upon being named the host of Barely Today. "What I was really looking for was a once-a-year show to be aired on the night that Daylight saving time ends in that one extra hour that you get at 2 in the morning." Barely Today wound up lasting just five months due to poor ratings, however, and was canceled in June 2007. "Not too