10. Those drunken, late night phone calls from Katie Couric

9. Can't handle grueling 30-minute-a-day schedule

8. NBC rejected his new situation comedy, "Seinkaw"

7. Network had petty objection to his making up the news as he went along

6. Ratings war causing friction with his live-in companion, Dan Rather

5. Network won't let him wear his lucky sombrero on air

4. Whenever he eats lunch at the NBC Commissary, Willard's toupee rubs against his leg and begs for table scraps

3. Heard that if you move from NBC to CBS, you get a boatload of cash

2. Ted Turner's offering $7 million a year and a night with Jane

1. Decided that the NBC Peacock is just "too creepy"