your new Monday Night Football broadcast team

[cougarjake13]

<p>will be</p><p>mike tirico, joe theismann, and tony kornheiser</p><p>al michaels will not be on either show, sunday night or monday nights</p><p>no word yet on who will be teaming with madden on sunday nights but the other two jabronies from sunday night might be the ones</p><p><a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2323121">newMNFbroadcast...team</a></p><p><img src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Darren%20Jakobsen/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/cougarsigpic2.JPG" align="absBottom" border="0" /></p>

[Sheeplovr]

who are any of those names<br />

[JerseyRich]

I'd rather have robots sitting there calling the games.<br />

[cougarjake13]

<strong>Sheeplovr</strong> wrote:<br />who are any of those names<br /><p>are you serious or you really don't know ????</p><p><img src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Darren%20Jakobsen/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/cougarsigpic2.JPG" align="absBottom" border="0" /></p>

[Judge Smails]

<p>Looks like Michaels will be following Madden to NBC. </p><p>From ABC News:</p><p>&quot;Al Michaels appears headed to NBC after ESPN hired former quarterback Joe Theismann, Washington Post columnist Tony Kornheiser and Mike Tirico as its Monday night broadcast crew&quot;</p><p>&quot;Al was not comfortable and let us know he was not comfortable with our vision of where we are going,&quot; ESPN executive vice president John Skipper said after Wednesday's announcement. &quot;Back in November he said it was the greatest job ever invented. So sometime between the last couple of weeks and November apparently he had a change of heart.&quot; </p><p>Link: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=1595119">http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=1595119</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Crippler]

<p>I have a feeling that putting Kornheiser and&nbsp;Theisman in the same booth is a bad move, but might lead to some of the best entertainment during a Monday Night Football&nbsp;broadcast since Cosell.</p><p>Tony doesn't hold&nbsp;back with his opinion...not on his ESPN show, not in his ESPN Magazine column, and from I understand not in his previous newspaper career.&nbsp; And I have never heard an announcer make more statements that are just incorrect as to how the game of football is played than Joe T during those Sunday night broadcasts.&nbsp; They may wind up killing each other.</p>

[Sheeplovr]

<p><span class="postbody">are you serious or you really don't know</span></p><p>i know madden makes those video games thats about it&nbsp;</p>

[cougarjake13]

<strong>Sheeplovr</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><span class="postbody">are you serious or you really don't know</span> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>i know madden makes those video games thats about it&nbsp;</p><p>joe theismann is a former QB for the redskins and has been doing espn's sunday night football</p><p>tony kornheiser currently does P.T.I. on espn and has or still does write for the washington post</p><p>mike tirico is an everysport broadcaster for espn</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Crippler</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I have a feeling that putting Kornheiser and Theisman in the same booth is a bad move, but might lead to some of the best entertainment during a Monday Night Football broadcast since Cosell.</p><p>Tony doesn't hold back with his opinion...not on his ESPN show, not in his ESPN Magazine column, and from I understand not in his previous newspaper career. And I have never heard an announcer make more statements that are just incorrect as to how the game of football is played than Joe T during those Sunday night broadcasts. They may wind up killing each other.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yeah, Thiesman definitely &quot;thinks out of the box&quot; and sometimes he makes you wonder if there even is a &quot;box&quot; in his world. Something tells me Tirico will be sitting between them. <br /></p>

[Justice4all]

<strong>Crippler</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I have a feeling that putting Kornheiser and&nbsp;Theisman in the same booth is a bad move, but might lead to some of the best entertainment during a Monday Night Football&nbsp;broadcast since Cosell.</p><p>Tony doesn't hold&nbsp;back with his opinion...not on his ESPN show, not in his ESPN Magazine column, and from I understand not in his previous newspaper career.&nbsp; And I have never heard an announcer make more statements that are just incorrect as to how the game of football is played than Joe T during those Sunday night broadcasts.&nbsp; <strong>They may wind up killing each other.</strong></p><p>Now THAT would be a monday night football worth watching!</p>

[MHasegawa]

You know what would be great to the knowledged fans, no play by play whatsoever.&nbsp; What do you guys think?<br />

[King Imp]

<p>Not liking it all that much. I like Kornheiser and Theismann isn't all that bad, but I've never thought a booth needs more than 2 people. 3 or more and it becomes a clusterfuck. Plus, now they have both Suzy Kolber and Michelle Tafoya on the sidelines. Frankly, I don't think you need anyone on the sidelines. What the hell do they really bring to the product besides some stupid little commentary or the oh so gripping questions for the coach at halftime? </p><p>I'll reserve full judgement until seeing them in action, but I'm not too thrilled about this. I liked it when I first heard it was going to be Al Michaels and Joe Theismann. </p>

[Gvac]

Theismann is unlistenable, and I find Kornheiser to be an even more smug and smarmy human being than Dennis Miller.

We all remember how well that turned out, right?

This is Kornheiser, for those that don't recognize the name -

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123037/2111855/2111856/050125_kornheiser.jpg

[King Imp]

<p>At least Kornheiser knows sports, unlike Miller who's sole purpose in the booth was to talk about shit that no one in America has even heard of. </p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>tony kornhieser</p><p>i'd rather have</p><p><img height="150" src="http://www.chefelf.com/starwars/images/ep3_judge.jpg" width="150" border="0" /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Valkenheiser</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dicknose and all</p>

[HBox]

<p>I didn't think it could get worse than the ESPN Sunday night crew, but I think they might have. Tirico is awful. His voice squeaks like a 13 year-old boy everytime something exciting happens. Theismann is an idiot, and his record from Sunday Night Football speaks volumes. With Kornheiser, I just don't know how it will work out, but I'm not optomistic.</p><p><span class="postbody">&quot;Al was not comfortable and let us know he was
not comfortable with our vision of where we are going,&quot; ESPN executive
vice president John Skipper said after Wednesday's announcement. &quot;Back
in November he said it was the greatest job ever invented. So sometime
between the last couple of weeks and November apparently he had a
change of heart.&quot;</span></p><p>Yeah, what changed is this:</p><p><img width="150" height="150" border="0" src="http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/images/espn_logo_150.jpg" /></p><p>A laughable, unwatchable shell of its former self.&nbsp;</p>

[FUNKMAN]

for some reason i only really care for Troy Aikman and Phil Simms... i almost always watch the games with the sound muted...

[El Mudo]

*tony kornheiser currently does P.T.I. on espn and has or still does write for the washington post*



He still does "columnettes" for the Post...

I love Mr. Tony...he's great, although it is unfortunate he's going to leave local radio here in DC....he had one of the best sports radio shows around for actual content....he had no athletes spewing cliches, no dumb callers, and with his connections to pretty much every major regional sportswriter in the country it was a great source of info, and his semi-weekly phonecalls with Ryan and Feinstein were always good

I hope itll work out for him...

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by El Mudo on 2-8-06 @ 7:57 PM</span>

[TheGameHHH]

Kornheiser is an extremely knowledgeable man when it comes to sports, PTI is one of the few shows on TV that I actually care to watch. I can't wait to see him do Monday Nights, my only regret is they didn't ask Wilbon to go with him.

[Justice4all]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br />for some reason i only really care for Troy Aikman and Phil Simms... i almost always watch the games with the sound muted... <p>Aikmen sucks...Simms is good as the CC...he knows his shit and is very articulate on the mike, unlike other Wide Receivers on ESPN who will go nameless (Mushmouth)</p><p>One person who does surprise me is Daryll Johnson. He is pretty good too. I hope fox keeps him on for a while.</p>

[A.J.]

<p>Yeah, Thiesman definitely &quot;thinks out of the box&quot; and sometimes he makes you wonder if there even is a &quot;box&quot; in his world.</p><p>I remember when Theisman was thinking about THIS box:</p><p><img height="427" src="http://www.collectinghollywood.com/CLCrosby1.jpg" width="350" border="0" /></p>

[Ogre]

Maybe I am a bit prejudiced having read Mr. Tony K. in the Washington Post for years, and enjoying his articles most of the time, but he sounded&nbsp;stronger than I expected.&nbsp; It seemed almost at times he kinda pushed Joey T. to the side.&nbsp;&nbsp;Having to listen to Joey T. blow his own horn for years, this wasn't so bad either.&nbsp; As a lifelong Skins fan, I know he brought the first&nbsp;of Three Vince Lombardi Trophies to DC. (Believe me if you didnt know Joey T will remind you).&nbsp; He is such a blow hard&nbsp;he is hard to stomach sometimes. &nbsp;Mike Torico&nbsp;holds it together pretty well.&nbsp;After saying all of that, it sure isn't the MNF we grew up with.&nbsp; The NBC Sunday deal is MNF plus&nbsp;the village idiots&nbsp;Collinsworth and Andrea something ornother.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also&nbsp;I noticed the NBC&nbsp;show has a ton of musical &quot;beds&quot; and &quot;swoosh&quot; sound effects&nbsp;during the broadcast.&nbsp; Really overproduced.&nbsp;

[Don Stugots]

i am glad that i dont watch football.&nbsp; why not have JR and the king out there?

[Gvac]

<strong>STUGOTS1</strong> wrote:<br />i am glad that i dont watch football. <br /><p>&nbsp;</p>Really Ma'am?<br />

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>So wait - is Bonnie doing sideline coverage or is Kolber?&nbsp; I'm confused.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Don Stugots]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>STUGOTS1</strong> wrote:<br />i am glad that i dont watch football. <br /><p>&nbsp;</p>Really Ma'am?<br /><p>yes, shocking but true.&nbsp; i neve got into it.&nbsp; no reason as to why.&nbsp; i dont hate it, i just never was interested.&nbsp; </p>

[Gvac]

I hope you recognized the &quot;really Ma'am&quot; as Fez's response to the ultimate fighter that called in one day and said he didn't like football.&nbsp; <br />

[Don Stugots]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br />I hope you recognized the &quot;really Ma'am&quot; as Fez's response to the ultimate fighter that called in one day and said he didn't like football.&nbsp; <br /><p>i caught it, chuckled out loud, but made believe that i didnt catch it.</p>

[cougarjake13]

<strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote:<br /><p>So wait - is Bonnie doing sideline coverage or is Kolber?&nbsp; I'm confused.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>i'm not sure if its an every week thing but kolber was doing the raiders sideline</p><p>and michele tafoya was doing the eagles</p><p>bonnie isn't on the telecast</p>

[Enabler]

<strong>Ogre</strong> wrote:<br />Maybe I am a bit prejudiced having read Mr. Tony K. in the Washington Post for years, and enjoying his articles most of the time, but he sounded&nbsp;stronger than I expected.&nbsp; It seemed almost at times he kinda pushed Joey T. to the side.&nbsp;&nbsp;Having to listen to Joey T. blow his own horn for years, this wasn't so bad either.&nbsp; As a lifelong Skins fan, I know he brought the first&nbsp;of Three Vince Lombardi Trophies to DC. (Believe me if you didnt know Joey T will remind you).&nbsp; He is such a blow hard&nbsp;he is hard to stomach sometimes. &nbsp;Mike Torico&nbsp;holds it together pretty well.&nbsp;After saying all of that, it sure isn't the MNF we grew up with.&nbsp; The NBC Sunday deal is MNF plus&nbsp;the village idiots&nbsp;Collinsworth and Andrea something ornother.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also&nbsp;I noticed the NBC&nbsp;show has a ton of musical &quot;beds&quot; and &quot;swoosh&quot; sound effects&nbsp;during the broadcast.&nbsp; Really overproduced.&nbsp; <p><font size="2">Totally agree. Ive been a displaced Skins fan for 20 years and it is impossible to defend that guy. Id almost rather listen to Jay Schroeder talk. &nbsp;</font></p>

[patsopinion]

<p>mckey mouse killed espn.</p><p>Just look at stuwart scott.</p><p>When he speaks hes about 80 percent less likely to say something funny.</p><p>some other things that espn does that bug me</p><p>-all
black programming- they have quite frankley, which is awful; a show
dedicated to basketball shoes, im not making that up; minor leauge
basketball, why do i care what the and1 mix tape guys tink about about
having a white guy on the team. This is not entertainment<br />
</p><p>-mens tennis, why?</p><p>-poker, all day long</p><p>-not enough
womens tennis or volley ball, indoor womens collegiate volley ball is
the most underrated/sexy sport of all time</p><p>
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[Ogre]

<strong>fagenabler</strong> wrote:&nbsp; <font size="2">Totally agree. Ive been a displaced Skins fan for 20 years and it is impossible to defend that guy. Id almost rather listen to <a href="http://premierespeakers.com/2172/index.cfm" target="_self">Jay Schroeder talk.&nbsp;&nbsp;</a></font> <p>I had no idea he could speak.</p><p>Here is a bonus photo for all you Big Blue and LT fans out there.&nbsp; This was taken just seconds before LT snapped lil Joey's drumstick. </p><p><img height="148" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/images/redskins/book/pg_155.jpg" width="300" border="0" /></p><p><font size="2">Moments before the end: John Riggins pitches a flea-flicker back to Joe Theismann on November 18, 1985 &mdash; and Theismann's career would quickly be over when his leg suffered multiple fractures under the weight of three Giants pass-rushers.</font><br /></p>

[FezPaul]

<strong>Ogre</strong> wrote: <p><font size="2">(Theismann's) leg suffered multiple fractures under the weight of three Giants pass-rushers.</font><br /></p><p><strong><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">Too bad they didn't land on his jaw.</font></strong></p>

[cougarjake13]

theisman's out

jaws is in

http://http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6611526

[OGC]

Does anyone out there remember the one game that was broadcast back in the 80's sometime that no announcers ? The only sounds were crowd noises and the grunts of the game.

It was heavenly.

[bigredd]

Thiesman eats it. I wish they would have broken his voice box. I'm not sure how Jaws will work out but I hope he does well. TK is THE MAN but I'm still not sold on him in the booth.

[King Imp]

theisman's out

jaws is in

http://http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6611526

You gotta be kidding me. If anyone should have gone, it should have been Kornheiser.
Love him on PTI, but he sounded totally clueless on MNF.

[cougarjake13]

yeh i wasnt too sure what to make of tony's first season
i like him on the radio and pti but it just didnt turn out so well on MNF

[ralphbxny]

I watch with the sound off!!

[pittphantoms]

I really like adding Jaws to the group... I watched about 14 of the MNF games last year and I thought 90% of the problem was that Joe Theisman didn't know what to say when Kornheiser would make a controversal statement... I thought Theisman left him out to dry an awful lot.

I never heard it, but from what I understand Tony Kornheiser's radio show was one of the greatest sports talk shows before he left for TV... I think giving him another year in the booth is smart. Jaws also adds an awful lot to the booth as he is a real X's and O's guy and will probably not be as shy as Theisman was to say something interesting.

If I was picking though, I would have loved to had Tommy Jackson in there somehow. He is the best on NFL Countdown...

[bigredd]

I really like adding Jaws to the group... I watched about 14 of the MNF games last year and I thought 90% of the problem was that Joe Theisman didn't know what to say when Kornheiser would make a controversal statement... I thought Theisman left him out to dry an awful lot.

I never heard it, but from what I understand Tony Kornheiser's radio show was one of the greatest sports talk shows before he left for TV... I think giving him another year in the booth is smart. Jaws also adds an awful lot to the booth as he is a real X's and O's guy and will probably not be as shy as Theisman was to say something interesting.

If I was picking though, I would have loved to had Tommy Jackson in there somehow. He is the best on NFL Countdown...

His radio show WAS fantastic but he's added a radio hole in his comeback. It's on XM144 but I've only listened to a little bit...I can't take the hole.

[cougarjake13]

I really like adding Jaws to the group... I watched about 14 of the MNF games last year and I thought 90% of the problem was that Joe Theisman didn't know what to say when Kornheiser would make a controversal statement... I thought Theisman left him out to dry an awful lot.

I never heard it, but from what I understand Tony Kornheiser's radio show was one of the greatest sports talk shows before he left for TV... I think giving him another year in the booth is smart. Jaws also adds an awful lot to the booth as he is a real X's and O's guy and will probably not be as shy as Theisman was to say something interesting.

If I was picking though, I would have loved to had Tommy Jackson in there somehow. He is the best on NFL Countdown...


well PTI has jaws on all the time and they seem to get along well in that forum

hope that translate well

[Kevin]

Just what we need, Mr Grunting IGLE, doing Monday night games... HOW BOUT WE BRING IN DICK VITAL AND COMPLETE THE AWFULNESS HALL OF FAME!!!!

[cougarjake13]

Just what we need, Mr Grunting IGLE, doing Monday night games... HOW BOUT WE BRING IN DICK VITAL AND COMPLETE THE AWFULNESS HALL OF FAME!!!!

ssssshhhhhhh

thats the secret plan for next year

[patsopinion]

Is Jaworski an upgrade for Monday Night Football? (http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/football/article/0,1406,KNS_321_5451509,00.html)

i dont like jaws but theisman leaving means that i can turn the audio back on on my tv