Tirico, Theismann, Kornheiser to Call Monday Night Games - The Orange Mane

DomCasual · 02-08-2006, 07:38 AM

I still think I must have missed whatever happened to Al Michaels. I thought he was a lock to do MNF.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2323121

Monday Night Football will have a new broadcast team when it debuts on ESPN, its new home, in 2006.

Mike Tirico, Joe Theismann and Tony Kornheiser will be part of a three-man booth calling the games on Monday nights next season and Suzy Kolber and Michelle Tafoya will be sideline reporters. Kolber and Tafoya both reported from the sidelines for ABC during Super Bowl XL.

Also, ESPN announced that Mike Breen will be its new lead NBA play-by-play announcer, teaming with analyst Hubie Brown for ABC telecasts beginning Feb. 12 and including the NBA Finals.

"This Monday Night Football team enthusiastically embraces our vision for sports television's signature series. We will propel MNF into a 21st century, all-day, exclusive, multi-media event that will engage fans in entirely new ways. This team will develop great chemistry," ESPN Executive Vice President John Skipper said.

"Mike Breen is widely respected for his depth of NBA knowledge and his consummate play-by-play skill. We are very excited to provide such a spectacular forum as the NBA Finals to showcase his talents."

In addition, Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon will take Pardon The Interruption on the road on Mondays during the football season, as the shows will air from the site of ESPN's Monday Night Football games.

"We look to the future with great enthusiasm and a strong commitment to enhance the presentation of the NFL and the NBA, two of our most important sports properties," ESPN and ABC Sports President George Bodenheimer said.

Al Michaels, the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football from 1986 through Sunday's Super Bowl in Detroit, will not return to either broadcast.

Ray Finkle · 02-08-2006, 07:40 AM

I will refuse to watch it now....Theismann is about as entertaining as a rectal exam....

Play2win · 02-08-2006, 09:18 AM

Hopefully Kornheiser tells Joe to STFU!!!

loborugger · 02-08-2006, 09:20 AM

I think Kornheiser will be fun to watch. I am looking forward to him. Tirico isnt bad. As others have commented, Joe needs a damn sweat sock jammed in his mouth for the duration of the game. I will at least give this crew a try.

Ray Finkle · 02-08-2006, 09:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by loborugger

I think Kornheiser will be fun to watch. I am looking forward to him. Tirico isnt bad. As others have commented, Joe needs a damn sweat sock jammed in his mouth for the duration of the game. I will at least give this crew a try.

Kornheiser is annoying....he will complain too much and give very little facts...

rbackfactory80 · 02-08-2006, 10:06 AM

Kornheiser will actually have to watch football now so maybe his comments will actually hold some weight.

watermock · 02-08-2006, 10:12 AM

I will miss Maguire poking sticks into Joe Heisman's ribs. It was funny when Joe would make a typically idiotic "analytic" statement that a liquored up Maguire would tear apart into a comedy.

I liked Michaels play by play. Korno seems pretty cynical and I'm not sure there are many here with better football knowlege. Didn't someone say Madden was going to do Sunday night? Oh Lord.

Quote:

Joe Theisman quotes

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“The word genius isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
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“It's probably one of the most unbelievable things to ever happen on Monday night, and it's one that most people remember. I've never seen the shot. I've chosen not to look at them, and I haven't changed my mind.”

Bronco_Beerslug · 02-08-2006, 10:19 AM

This means it's basically unwatchable now unless the sound is muted.

I see Kornheiser dragging up at some point during the year since he hates to go anywhere or be away from home for any length of time.

watermock · 02-08-2006, 10:39 AM

Let me get this straight...now Disney has an idiot analyist in Joe, A guy who has to go on a bus each week because he's such a p***Y he won't fly and is a one hit wonder as a coach and a rambling moron, and now a cynical easterner that hates to travel but will have to travel each week and will probably whine...why not hire Steven A. Smith to yell into the mike in an angry manner? Or Bronco Billy, the GM of the Lions?

watermock · 02-08-2006, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Play2Win

Hopefully Kornheiser tells Joe to STFU!!!

yeah, I hope Maguire gives him tips on how to get that idiot to shut up.

Taco John · 02-08-2006, 12:28 PM

I like Tirico, love Kornheiser, but hate Joe Theismann... I'd rather Theisman be replaced with Jaws.

coachmastermind · 02-08-2006, 01:03 PM

Tirico, Kornheiser, Theismann new crew on MNF

NFL.com wire reports

BRISTOL, Conn. (Feb. 8, 2006) -- 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.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/9216554

Looks like Madden & Michaels will continue on Sunday nights on NBC

Garcia Bronco · 02-08-2006, 01:36 PM

MNF is now the lame game and SNF is the ****.

Billy Clyde Puckett · 02-08-2006, 02:17 PM

Theezwoman Sucks the worst. I probably will not watch most of the games unless they are important to the Broncs. The T&A on CSI Miami is much more appealing.

broncofan · 02-09-2006, 01:28 PM

Looks like Sunday Nights will be where its at.

I like Kornheiser, but not enough to believe that he'll be able to drag his two new colleagues to a respectable level IMO.

bronco militia · 02-09-2006, 01:30 PM

Updated: Feb. 9, 2006, 1:31 PM ET
ESPN gets cartoon, sports rights for MichaelsESPN.com news services

In the deadly serious business of sports, a cartoon character from 1927 played a role in Al Michaels' hop from Monday Night Football to NBC.

The network traded rights to Ryder Cup matches, Olympics highlights, historic cartoon character Oswald the Rabbit and more to ESPN to acquire the services of Emmy-winner Michaels for its Sunday night games it was announced Thursday.

Think he looks like Mickey? Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is returning to the Disney warren.
NBC takes over Sunday night next season from ESPN, which will broadcast Monday Night Football. John Madden, Michaels' partner for the last four seasons, agreed in June to a six-year contract with NBC.

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.

To get the final piece of Ebersol's team, NBC gave ESPN broader access to the Olympics, Ryder Cup golf, Notre Dame football, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.

NBC also returned Oswald the Rabbit to The Walt Disney Company almost 80 years after the character played a role in the development of Disney's signature icon.

Walt Disney produced 26 Oswald cartoons in 1927, but Universal distributed the series and owned the rights to the character, prompting Disney to develop Mickey Mouse.

Specifically, ESPN gets:

• Rights to broadcast live Friday coverage of the Ryder Cup golf championship between the United States and Europe in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014, as well as the right to re-air NBC coverage and extended highlights.

• Expanded Olympics highlights from this year through 2012.

• Monday Night Football promotions during the NBC Sunday night through 2011.

• Expanded highlights from Notre Dame football, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness through 2011.

When the Monday games move to ESPN next season, retired quarterback Joe Theismann, Washington Post columnist Tony Kornheiser and Mike Tirico will be in the ESPN booth.

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.

-Slap- · 02-09-2006, 01:41 PM

Why put Tony Kornheiser on a sports broadcast? His knowledge of pro football is no deeper than Dennis Miller's and he's equally pretentious.

Mile High Shack · 02-09-2006, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Slap-

Why put Tony Kornheiser on a sports broadcast? His knowledge of pro football is no deeper than Dennis Miller's and he's equally pretentious.

and more annoying

XXXII&III · 02-09-2006, 02:04 PM

I'm in deep mourning for the end of MNF as we know it. I would do Al Michaels in a heartbeat if the opportunity arose. And I know I'm in the minority but I loved Michaels & Madden together.

Are those a$$holes at ESPN going to do away with my favorite song in the whole world, too?? "are you ready for some football?"

I hate ESPN. I hate ABC for dumping MNF onto ESPN. I hate Theisman and that Kornhusker guy and whoever that third person is.

I suppose I *could* Tivo the Sunday night games and watch them on Monday nights. What a pain.

ESPN and ABC suck the big one.

::stomps out::

Arkie · 02-09-2006, 04:28 PM

Mike Tirico is a good choice. But, why Theismann? I don't know why ESPN likes this guy. I think he's a bad choice and wasted opportunity for ESPN. They shouldn't want their network muted in thousands of households during MNF.

Kaylore · 02-09-2006, 04:42 PM

Theismann is hilarious. I don't care how much you all hate him. He says some funny stuff and listening to his compatriots react to his comments is funny. I agree with a lot of his takes too. Some are pure homerism and overly-favors QB's in the blame game, but I think some of the over-hate isn't totally justified.

02-08-2006, 07:38 AM	#1
DomCasual The Dude abides. Shameless Homer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Cocytus Posts: 13,167 Adopt-a-Bronco: Gus Frerotte	Tirico, Theismann, Kornheiser to Call Monday Night Games I still think I must have missed whatever happened to Al Michaels. I thought he was a lock to do MNF. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2323121 Monday Night Football will have a new broadcast team when it debuts on ESPN, its new home, in 2006. Mike Tirico, Joe Theismann and Tony Kornheiser will be part of a three-man booth calling the games on Monday nights next season and Suzy Kolber and Michelle Tafoya will be sideline reporters. Kolber and Tafoya both reported from the sidelines for ABC during Super Bowl XL. Also, ESPN announced that Mike Breen will be its new lead NBA play-by-play announcer, teaming with analyst Hubie Brown for ABC telecasts beginning Feb. 12 and including the NBA Finals. "This Monday Night Football team enthusiastically embraces our vision for sports television's signature series. We will propel MNF into a 21st century, all-day, exclusive, multi-media event that will engage fans in entirely new ways. This team will develop great chemistry," ESPN Executive Vice President John Skipper said. "Mike Breen is widely respected for his depth of NBA knowledge and his consummate play-by-play skill. We are very excited to provide such a spectacular forum as the NBA Finals to showcase his talents." In addition, Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon will take Pardon The Interruption on the road on Mondays during the football season, as the shows will air from the site of ESPN's Monday Night Football games. "We look to the future with great enthusiasm and a strong commitment to enhance the presentation of the NFL and the NBA, two of our most important sports properties," ESPN and ABC Sports President George Bodenheimer said. Al Michaels, the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football from 1986 through Sunday's Super Bowl in Detroit, will not return to either broadcast.

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02-08-2006, 07:40 AM	#2
Ray Finkle DOOONNNTTTTT CAAARRREEE! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Alexandria, VA Posts: 7,402	I will refuse to watch it now....Theismann is about as entertaining as a rectal exam....

02-08-2006, 09:18 AM	#3
Play2win Ring of Famer Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 9,610 Adopt-a-Bronco: The Duke	Hopefully Kornheiser tells Joe to STFU!!!

02-08-2006, 09:20 AM	#4
loborugger lost in the ether Did we finally get a FB??? Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The 'cuse Posts: 5,783 Adopt-a-Bronco: Peyton Hillis	I think Kornheiser will be fun to watch. I am looking forward to him. Tirico isnt bad. As others have commented, Joe needs a damn sweat sock jammed in his mouth for the duration of the game. I will at least give this crew a try.

02-08-2006, 10:06 AM	#6
rbackfactory80 Ring of Famer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: New York Posts: 4,609	Kornheiser will actually have to watch football now so maybe his comments will actually hold some weight.

02-08-2006, 10:19 AM	#8
Bronco_Beerslug Angling in the Deep Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Texas Riviera, Southern Mountains Posts: 24,281	This means it's basically unwatchable now unless the sound is muted. I see Kornheiser dragging up at some point during the year since he hates to go anywhere or be away from home for any length of time.

02-08-2006, 10:39 AM	#9
watermock "Hoodie Jr" "Hug me!" Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hot Springs, Ouachitah Posts: 77,090	Let me get this straight...now Disney has an idiot analyist in Joe, A guy who has to go on a bus each week because he's such a p***Y he won't fly and is a one hit wonder as a coach and a rambling moron, and now a cynical easterner that hates to travel but will have to travel each week and will probably whine...why not hire Steven A. Smith to yell into the mike in an angry manner? Or Bronco Billy, the GM of the Lions?

02-08-2006, 12:28 PM	#11
Taco John 24/7 Broncos In Elway I Trust Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 49,697 Adopt-a-Bronco: Peyton Manning	I like Tirico, love Kornheiser, but hate Joe Theismann... I'd rather Theisman be replaced with Jaws.

02-08-2006, 01:03 PM	#12
coachmastermind Seasoned Veteran Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 293	Tirico, Kornheiser, Theismann new crew on MNF NFL.com wire reports BRISTOL, Conn. (Feb. 8, 2006) -- 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. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/9216554 Looks like Madden & Michaels will continue on Sunday nights on NBC

02-08-2006, 01:36 PM	#13
Garcia Bronco Hokie since 1993 Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 45,991 Adopt-a-Bronco: Tom Jackson	MNF is now the lame game and SNF is the ****.

02-08-2006, 02:17 PM	#14
Billy Clyde Puckett Billy=Semi Tough Big Guy Looking down on KC, SD and Oakland Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: between 5,000 and 10,000 feet elevation Posts: 12,665 Adopt-a-Bronco: John Elway	Theezwoman Sucks the worst. I probably will not watch most of the games unless they are important to the Broncs. The T&A on CSI Miami is much more appealing.

02-09-2006, 01:28 PM	#15
broncofan Perennial Pro-bowler Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Philly PA Posts: 886	Looks like Sunday Nights will be where its at. I like Kornheiser, but not enough to believe that he'll be able to drag his two new colleagues to a respectable level IMO.

02-09-2006, 01:30 PM	#16
bronco militia Ring of Famer THE GREATEST Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: colorado springs, co Posts: 22,575	Updated: Feb. 9, 2006, 1:31 PM ET ESPN gets cartoon, sports rights for MichaelsESPN.com news services In the deadly serious business of sports, a cartoon character from 1927 played a role in Al Michaels' hop from Monday Night Football to NBC. The network traded rights to Ryder Cup matches, Olympics highlights, historic cartoon character Oswald the Rabbit and more to ESPN to acquire the services of Emmy-winner Michaels for its Sunday night games it was announced Thursday. Think he looks like Mickey? Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is returning to the Disney warren. NBC takes over Sunday night next season from ESPN, which will broadcast Monday Night Football. John Madden, Michaels' partner for the last four seasons, agreed in June to a six-year contract with NBC. 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. To get the final piece of Ebersol's team, NBC gave ESPN broader access to the Olympics, Ryder Cup golf, Notre Dame football, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. NBC also returned Oswald the Rabbit to The Walt Disney Company almost 80 years after the character played a role in the development of Disney's signature icon. Walt Disney produced 26 Oswald cartoons in 1927, but Universal distributed the series and owned the rights to the character, prompting Disney to develop Mickey Mouse. Specifically, ESPN gets: • Rights to broadcast live Friday coverage of the Ryder Cup golf championship between the United States and Europe in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014, as well as the right to re-air NBC coverage and extended highlights. • Expanded Olympics highlights from this year through 2012. • Monday Night Football promotions during the NBC Sunday night through 2011. • Expanded highlights from Notre Dame football, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness through 2011. When the Monday games move to ESPN next season, retired quarterback Joe Theismann, Washington Post columnist Tony Kornheiser and Mike Tirico will be in the ESPN booth. 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.

02-09-2006, 01:41 PM	#17
-Slap- Ring of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 31,895	Why put Tony Kornheiser on a sports broadcast? His knowledge of pro football is no deeper than Dennis Miller's and he's equally pretentious.

02-09-2006, 02:04 PM	#19
XXXII&III Pro Bowler Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Aurora Posts: 503	I'm in deep mourning for the end of MNF as we know it. I would do Al Michaels in a heartbeat if the opportunity arose. And I know I'm in the minority but I loved Michaels & Madden together. Are those a$$holes at ESPN going to do away with my favorite song in the whole world, too?? "are you ready for some football?" I hate ESPN. I hate ABC for dumping MNF onto ESPN. I hate Theisman and that Kornhusker guy and whoever that third person is. I suppose I could Tivo the Sunday night games and watch them on Monday nights. What a pain. ESPN and ABC suck the big one. ::stomps out::

02-09-2006, 04:28 PM	#20
Arkie Ring of Famer Gggggrrrrrr rrrraaaahhh Arrrrhhhn. Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 9,081 Adopt-a-Bronco: Quinton Carter	Mike Tirico is a good choice. But, why Theismann? I don't know why ESPN likes this guy. I think he's a bad choice and wasted opportunity for ESPN. They shouldn't want their network muted in thousands of households during MNF.

02-09-2006, 04:42 PM	#21
Kaylore 6-37, Raider fans. Yummy birds and snow! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ceti Alpha V Posts: 41,019 Adopt-a-Bronco: Wesley Duke	Theismann is hilarious. I don't care how much you all hate him. He says some funny stuff and listening to his compatriots react to his comments is funny. I agree with a lot of his takes too. Some are pure homerism and overly-favors QB's in the blame game, but I think some of the over-hate isn't totally justified.