Kornheiser, Theismann, Tirico on new crew as MNF shifts to cable

neverteaseit

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Please explain to me the love affair with this a hole kornholer talk about gonna be hard to listen to a broadcast of these monday night games.




BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) -- Former quarterback Joe Theismann, Washington Post columnist Tony Kornheiser and Mike Tirico will be the broadcast crew for "Monday Night Football" next season as the long-running show shifts to ESPN from ABC.

The moves leave Al Michaels free to switch to NBC, which takes over Sunday night games next season from ESPN. John Madden, Michaels' broadcast partner for the last four seasons, agreed in June to a six-year contract with NBc


At a news conference in July, Michaels said he would remain with "Monday Night Football" when it switched to ESPN. He was to be paired with Theismann, who had broadcast Sunday night games on ESPN with Mike Patrick and Paul Maguire.

Mike Breen will replace Michaels as the lead NBA play-by-play announcer on ABC/ESPN. He will be joined by former NBA coach Hubie Brown, hired in December 2004 as the analyst.

Theismann was an NFL quarterback for 12 seasons and had worked on ESPN's Sunday night games since 1988. In addition to working for the Post, Kornheiser has co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since September 2001 with Michael Wilbon, another Post writer.

Tirico has been a "SportsCenter" host for ESPN and handled play-by-play of the last Orange Bowl. He has worked for ESPN and ABC since 1991.

Michele Tafoya returns for her third season as a "Monday Night Football" sideline reporter, and Suzy Kolber was added as a second sideline reporter.
 

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Tirico is good, he'll make insights and pretend he cares even when its a blowout or uneventful... I thought Michaels and Madden were phoning it in late in the year on MNF...

Kornheiser shouldnt be allowed to speak when not acompanied by Wilbon

Theismann??.... eeeh... i guess that is better than Paul McGuire doing it
 

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kornheiser......i never understood his appeal to sports fans....the guy ADMITS he rarely watches sports, is in bed by 9pm est, yet has a sports talk show, is a sports colunnist and now the analyst for MNF???

WTF?
 

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I absoultely hate Theisman, pretty in-different to Tirico, but I love kornheiser...the guy makes me a laugh and I used to listen to his radio show...but I don't think there is anyone worse then Theisman
 

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Kornhole is a fawkin idiot- i cannot stand the man.


ESPN has sunk to a all time low for me with Kornhole in the booth.
 

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i know i'm in the minority but it doesn't matter to me who the announcers are.....sometimes i even turn the volume down.....
 

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neverteaseit said:
Theismann was an NFL quarterback for 12 seasons and had worked on ESPN's Sunday night games since 1988.
Man! Time sure flies. Theismann's been on for 17 years already? 1988? It sure doesn't seem like it. This cannot be correct.
 

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Well, I guess I am in the minority because I feel like this team will be better than we have seen in a while on MNF.
 

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AR182 said:
i know i'm in the minority but it doesn't matter to me who the announcers are.....sometimes i even turn the volume down.....
it matters to me when their bad,its like refs when you dont notice them their doing a good job.theisman ,mguire and a few others are just irritating cant stand them.
 

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Theisman sucks and always has............I too liked Mike Patrick. Obviosly Theisman has the better agent!
 
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