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ESPN Monday Night Football Team (MERGED)

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go easy on teddy... he just trying to fit in... he's been waiting to get the word assclown in one of his posts... he just wants to be like everyone else.


teddy... be original... it will help you in the long run.
 
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JohnnyCockfight said:
Well since ABC and ESPN are really one and the same, why can't they just shift over Michaels to continue calling MNF?
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Michaels has stated that he does not want to be involved with ESPN. Apparently there is some bad blood there for some reason.

This just came out; he's going to NBC with Madden.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060209/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_monday_night_football

Michaels Out at ABC/ESPN, Headed to NBC

By RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer 54 minutes ago

NEW YORK - Al Michaels is headed to NBC after ESPN hired former quarterback Joe Theismann, Washington Post columnist Tony Kornheiser and Mike Tirico as its Monday night broadcast crew.

Michaels had been with ABC since 1976 and had been the play-by-play voice of "Monday Night Football" since 1986, when he replaced Frank Gifford. A four-time Emmy-Award winner, he is best known for exclaiming "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" when the United States upset the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympic hockey tournament.

NBC 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.

"Al was not comfortable and let us know he was not comfortable with our vision of where we are going," ESPN executive vice president John Skipper said after Wednesday's announcement. "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."

At a July news conference, Michaels said he would remain with "Monday Night Football" when it switched to ESPN after 36 seasons on ABC. He was to be paired with Theismann, who had broadcast Sunday night games on ESPN with Mike Patrick and Paul Maguire.

"I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'm home and I'm staying home," Michaels said then. "The three words `Monday Night Football' resonate like no other."

Skipper was evasive when asked about specifics on Michaels, saying only a "satisfactory resolution" had been reached. Pat Gibbons, a marketing representative for Michaels, said he could not reach the broadcaster.

Besides Madden and Michaels, NBC will have Bob Costas and Cris Collinsworth as co-hosts of the network's studio show.

"When we made the deal with the NFL this spring, there were four key stars I knew I wanted to build our football team around, but I wondered from the beginning, if I would be lucky enough to get them all," NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said in a statement Thursday. "If you had asked me in mid-summer if I was really going to be able to pull this off, I would have said there's no way in hell, but that didn't stop me from trying. And, as it's come to pass over the last six months, I've learned more clearly than ever before, patience really does pay off."

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.

ESPN plans to use its various television and radio networks and Web sites for daylong buildups to the Monday night games, which will start at 8:40 p.m., about 25 minutes earlier than previously. MNF has not had a three-man booth since Michaels was teamed with Dan Fouts and Dennis Miller in 2000-01.

Theismann was an NFL quarterback for 12 seasons and had worked on ESPN's Sunday night games since 1988. Kornheiser, who had auditioned for the MNF job Miller got, has written for the Post since 1979 and has co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since September 2001 with Michael Wilbon, another Post writer.

"I've got about 27 gigs right now," Kornheiser said. "I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post."

He thinks listeners do care about who broadcasts games, especially "if the telecast has a certain amount of sizzle."

"Roone Arledge and Howard Cosell, among others, sort of changed the viewing habits of America," he said.

He also must adjust his schedule.

"I live like a barn animal. I go to sleep at 9:30 and wake up at about 5," he said.

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.

"It's the best play-by-play chair in sports," Tirico said. "To be the next person to sit in it is humbling."

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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I personally can't stand Theismann on broadcasts. And all Kornheiser and Wilbon do is yell at each other for 30 minutes on PTI. Not what I call hgh quality entertainment.

I can just see Kornheiser doing that with Theismann now on Monday night. :roll2:

But you should have known ESPN would use this as another opportunity for shameless self promotion of their people on the payroll.
 
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tedginn05 said:
Typo

But heres the ass clown in question...

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I wonder if they are brothers?
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:shake:

He knows who Dan PATRICK is, he was just making fun of your spelling of PARTICK.

Why would you think that Thump doesn't know who Dan Patrick is? Every sports fan in the country knows who he is.
 
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TraderLee said:
I personally can't stand Theismann on broadcasts. And all Kornheiser and Wilbon do is yell at each other for 30 minutes on PTI. Not what I call hgh quality entertainment.

I can just see Kornheiser doing that with Theismann now on Monday night. :roll2:

But you should have known ESPN would use this as another opportunity for shameless self promotion of their people on the payroll.
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I am going to give ESPN the benefit of the doubt and assume that unlike Dickie V, Kornheiser is capable of being civil; and will be respctable in the broadcast booth. He and Wilbon yelling back and forth is what the entire show is based upon. Just like Around the Horn, PTI is a debate show. A debate is not much fun to watch is everyone agrees about everything. So, by nature of the show, the guys are forced to take certain sides and act like idiots.

Of course, they may just be idiots in real life and not acting at all. Time will tell.

Actually, now that I think about it, Kornheiser did audition for the job against Dennis Miller and lost, so maybe he will suck.......
 
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This is great, Al Michaels was traded to NBC for the "Owald the Lucky Rabbit" series :biggrin:

Michaels Traded from ESPN to NBC
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[/FONT]<!--NEW HED STRUCTURE --><!--startindex-->[FONT=verdana,helvetica]It took a little work, but NBC managed to acquire superstar sportscaster Al Michaels in a blockbuster trade from ESPN that will shake up the Monday Night Football broadcast booth and see Michaels reteamed with John Madden on Sunday nights.
Michaels didn't come cheaply. The Peacock had to come up with a package deal that included making expanded highlight clips available to ESPN of such events as the Olympics and Notre Dame football, selling ESPN Friday coverage of the next four Ryder Cup golf tournaments and, the coup de grace, giving ESPN parent Disney complete rights to the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series. The short 'toons were created by Walt Disney in 1927, and Oswald is considered a precursor to Mickey Mouse.

The move comes just days after Michaels hosted Super Bowl XL, what had been presumed to be his last football game with MNF partner Madden. The 69-year-old Madden, who tag-teamed with Michaels for the past four seasons, decided to jump to NBC after the Peacock acquired rights to Sunday night NFL games beginning next fall. ABC subsequently handed off its MNF franchise to sibling cable network ESPN.
Michaels, 61, initially signaled he was staying with MNF, signing an eight-year, $4 million deal in July. "I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'm home and I'm staying home," Michaels told reporters at the time. "The three words Monday Night Football resonate like no other."
But in recent weeks he was portrayed as waffling, especially after longtime MNF producer Fred Gaudelli also joined the NBC lineup, which also will include Michaels' longtime friend and fellow Emmy winner Bob Costas and Chris Collinsworth anchoring the pregame festivities.
I began to realize more and more how much I was going to miss being with those people," Michaels said in a conference call Thursday. "That's my family...my broadcasting family."
A four-time Emmy winner, Michaels is considered one of the best, most versatile voices in the business. He joined ABC back in 1976 and took over MNF duties in 1986. Aside from football, he has done play-by-play for NBA games, the Olympics (his "do you believe in miracles?!" hockey call at the 1984 Lake Placid games is a classic) and Major League Baseball. In joining NBC, he bowed out from working as ABC lead NBA announcer for the rest of the season, being replaced by Mike Breen.
"Al was not comfortable and let us know he was not comfortable with our vision of where we are going," John Skipper, ESPN's executive vice president, said in a conference call Wednesday. "We want to work with the people who want to work with us. We made a decision quickly to move on."
With Michaels gone, ESPN will complete renovate the MNF booth for the first time in two decades. Mike Tirico will serve as play-by-play man, joining analysts Joe Theisman, a former pro quarterback, and Tony Kornheister, a Washington Post columnist who also hosts ESPN's Pardon the Interruption\
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Michaels' comments on the trade:

"Oswald is definitely worth more than a fourth-round draft choice," Michaels said, referring to what the Kansas City Chiefs gave the New York Jets as compensation for releasing coach Herm Edwards from his contract. "I'm going to be a trivia answer someday."

:lol:
 
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I'm with Mili and sandgk. Mike Tirico could be the best and most knowledgeable announcer in the world and I would still avoid him after that disgusting performance at the Alamo Bowl.

But I'm with Thump and crazybuckfan about Dan Patrick. He seemed to be the most balanced of them all at ESPN during all that nonsense and generally is very supportive of the Buckeyes in what little I see.



sandgk said:
Well glory hallelujah!!

Someone actually calls out all three of them.

No matter how much Tirico knows about the game the fact is that what you said about him and the Alamo Bowl is right on. Now imagine the TO talk or Moss talk or you fill in the blank ... Basically, this weeks controversy always has a chance of rising to the top of his order if he deems the game of less importance.

As for the other two -- :!

Theismann we know can't commentate.

Kronheiser we have no clue, and it may easily turn out that neither does he.

Plus, -- and this is my bottom line gripe. Chemistry is so key to getting the MNF commentating right. ABC struck gold a few times with their crews. ESPN is starting out with gold, but it is fools gold. I simply cannot imagine the chemistry between these three being anything but bad.
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