When Monday Night Football moves to ESPN the announce team will be......

[MadCity]

Al Michaels and Joe Thiesmann.

I'm watching NFL Live and Trey Wingo just let the cat out of the bag.

:moody:

[Beantown Bronco]

So much for my resolution of not throwing up on my keyboard anymore.

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

Ok where do we sign the petition to dump Theezwoman. He is the worst sports announcer in history.

[Rausch]

So much for my resolution of not throwing up on my keyboard anymore.

As long as Madden's gone I'm ecstatic. :thumbs:

[Play2win]

As long as Madden's gone I'm ecstatic. :thumbs:
I'd rather listen to Madden 10 times out of 10 rather than have to listen to Theismann for even 10 minutes.

The guy is awful, and has the brain of a 3rd grader.

[watermock]

The only redeeming value of Joan Heisman was Maguire drunk making fun of him, while the insults flew right over his head. He was such an idiot he didn't even know it half the time. Without Maguire Joe is going to go from a comedy routine to just plain annoying.

[Play2win]

Maguire might actually be half-decent without Theismann there to ruin the whole show...

[Meck77]

Theisman sucks. Doesn't the braintrust of ESPN know how to do a poll? A 24hr poll on thier website would have confirmed what football fans think of him.

[WyoLaw]

Joe Thiesmann sucks! I don't understand the fascination with him.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

I'd rather listen to Madden 10 times out of 10 rather than have to listen to Theismann for even 10 minutes.



Same here. ESPN has idiots running things these days.

[NaptownChief]

Maguire might actually be half-decent without Theismann there to ruin the whole show...


Maguire bothered me more than even Joey T....His weekly comment about how "watch this running backs feet, they never stop moving..." Absolutely wore me out. Slap and I talked about this and concluded that Donnell Bennett was the only running back in the history of the NFL that actually did have both his feet not moving while carrying the ball.

[Crushaholic]

I guess I'll have to watch Monday Night Football with the sound down next year...

[watermock]

Disney seems to be run by Itchy and Scratchy and some geek that loves to run annoying computer graphics at light speed. God I hate how they run those totally worthless computer generated fade outs. Why do we need whooshes, and firey balls flying around? Now they are bringing in Steven A. Smith for "Quite Frankly". His first take is that New England has 40 stars, people play for free, and that Tom Brady is all you need to win a SuperBowl.

[NaptownChief]

I guess I'll have to watch Monday Night Football with the sound down next year...



Considering it is around 1:00am when the damn game is over I usually watch the majority of the game with the eye lids down anyway.

[baja]

Ok where do we sign the petition to dump Theezwoman. He is the worst sports announcer in history.

I'll sign

I would rather have 7 maddens and a Greek than thiesman

[watermock]

Maguire bothered me more than even Joey T....His weekly comment about how "watch this running backs feet, they never stop moving..." Absolutely wore me out. Slap and I talked about this and concluded that Donnell Bennett was the only running back in the history of the NFL that actually did have both his feet not moving while carrying the ball.

True, but Maguire was always able to slip some choice insults over Joe's head, but Maguire was drunk, so he gets a pass. His insults were worth the price of admission.

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

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[Bronco_Beerslug]

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Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theisman

[Play2win]

I guess it must really be The End of Times if Joe Thiesmann is mainlining on the once sacred Monday Night Football Team.

[NaptownChief]

Slugger,

Are you Mark Alan?

[NaptownChief]

I guess it must really be The End of Times if Joe Thiesmann is mainlining on the once sacred Monday Night Football Team.



The end of times came with the Dennis Miller experiment.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Michaels, Theismann, Kolber, Tafoya to crew MNF

Monday Night Football will have a new home in 2006, but the faces on the telecast team will be familar to prime-time football.

Al Michaels is staying with Monday Night Football when it moves from ABC to ESPN for the 2006 NFL season, parting with John Madden after four seasons in the booth together.

Michaels, who will also appear on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, NFL PrimeTime and SportsCenter, will be joined by analyst Joe Theisman in the booth, with Suzy Kolber and Michelle Tafoya reporting from the sidelines.

"Monday Night Football and ESPN are the two biggest game changers in our industry in the last 30 years, and we have assembled a talent and production team that will reflect that," ESPN President George Bodenheimer said in the statement. "This team is a true collaboration of ESPN and ABC Sports, and clearly demonstrates the strength and promise of what our company can deliver."

Michaels has been the play-by-play man on Monday Night Football since 1986, the last three with Madden as analyst. After this season, Madden is moving to NBC, which is taking over the Sunday night time slot in 2006 for what the NFL considers its main prime-time package.

"I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'm home and I'm staying home," said Michaels, who had been heavily pursued by NBC, but said he wanted to stay where he has worked for 29 years -- ABC and ESPN are both owned by the Disney Co.

"The three words 'Monday Night Football' resonate like no other," he said during a news conference Tuesday to announce the lineup.

Theisman, who led the Redskins to victory as quarterback in Super Bowl XVII, has been an NFL analyst for ESPN's Sunday Night Football since 1988. He had teamed with play-by-play man Mike Patrick and Paul Maguire on ABC's Sunday night games.

Kolber as been a sideline reporter for ESPN's Sunday Night Football since 2001. Tafoya, who joined ESPN in 2000, was named the sideline reporter for ABC Sports' Monday Night Football prior to last season.

"This NFL team will be unsurpassed," said Mark Shapiro, ESPN Executive Vice President, Programming and Production. "ESPN and ABC Sports NFL coverage has won the last two Sports Emmys for live event series, and this team positions us to take game coverage to an even higher level."

Shapiro said Maguire and Patrick are both expected to stay with ESPN. He said Maguire will be part of a two-hour Monday night pregame show to be hosted by Chris Berman, who has hosted the network's Sunday night "NFL Primetime."

In April, ESPN and the NFL reached an eight-year agreement to move the Monday night broadcasts to ESPN beginning with the 2006 season, concluding MNF's 36-year run on ABC after this upcoming season.

NBC, which had been without NFL football since losing its contract to CBS in 1997, announced Tuesday that Bob Costas will host its Sunday night pregame show.
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[Tredici]

God.

Repeatedly puncturing my eardrums sounds like a better option than listening to Theisman.

[Bronx33]

God.

Repeatedly puncturing my eardrums sounds like a better option than listening to Theisman.


I wish they would have broken more than his leg.......

[Taco John]

Any word on who the radio broadcasters will be?

[Needa Pass Rush]

BOOM! Tough actin' Tanactin! ;D

[Disco Man]

Well, looks like I will be listening to the radio broadcast!

[Pezman]

Theismann that hack?

What the hell were they thinking? Oh wait, we are talking about the Mouse network and ESPN. Of course they were gonna go with the most idiotic choice possible.

[Play2win]

Mark that, I just remember who I can't stand worse than Theisman, Suzy Kolber. She has the most annoying way of speaking and "throating" her words. I just can't stand it. I can't stand her. She is probably one of the most iritating people I have ever seen/heard.

Put both Theisman and Kolber on the same set, oh my good lord.

[Bronx33]

Well, looks like I will be listening to the radio broadcast!


Ditto......

[clint7]

Listening to Theisman is like listening to a dentist's drill...except a dentist's drill doesn't hurt as much.

[Play2win]

Listening to Theisman is like listening to a dentist's drill...except a dentist's drill doesn't hurt as much.
Still not as bad as listening to Suzy Kolber talk. Thats like a Dentist with Jackhammer...

[Hogan11]

True, but Maguire was always able to slip some choice insults over Joe's head, but Maguire was drunk, so he gets a pass. His insults were worth the price of admission.

I'll tell you something right now...McGuire is one of the greatest guys to meet in person you'll ever find...Kind , generous and one that can drink anyone under the table....he is a legend and the broadcast will suffer without him on it, make my words.

I love the fact he constantly zinged that pompous azz Joey T. at every turn....now, Thiesman has free reign next to Micheals.....wonderful ::)

There will be a lot of use of the "mute" button around my place in the upcoming years, that's for sure.

I only hope Paul turns up on another Network with a key coverage role.

[wabbit]

Al Michaels & Joe Theisman

Similar teams through recent history:

John Elway & Dan Reeves

Howard Cosell & Alex Karras

Neil Diamond & Disco Duck

Walter Cronkite & Queen LaTeefa (CBS awards show this year-arrrrrgh)

[RhymesayersDU]

Slightly off-topic, but anybody ever wonder what would happen if we put Bill Walton and John Madden in a room together for more than 10 consecutive minutes?

[Bronco LB 59]

Joe Heisman will be canned in a few years i.e. Boomer Esiason, Dan Fouts, Dennis Miller, Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson. When ESPN started on Sunday Night, they flirted with the idea of having George Carlin do broadcasts but probably felt he was too much of a nut.