Monday Night Football
First I read this on ESPN Daily Quickie:
Tony Kornheiser can try to play down the expectations, but the early reviews are in and it is looking like he'll be the big star of the new MNF.
Which made me find look up this article:
New 'MNF' team buckles up
WASHINGTON — Watching the New York Giants play the Washington Redskins, Tony Kornheiser talked about Giant Jeremy Shockey's "jerk factor" and how good Giant Sammy Davis' near-interception was, given he has "only one eye."
A handful of ESPN higher-ups watched Kornheiser, Joe Theismann and Mike Tirico in their first rehearsals Wednesday for the ESPN's three-man booth for Monday NFL games, moving from ABC to ESPN next season. They used the studio of Pardon the Interruption to call a game taped last season. Kornheiser, co-host of ESPN's PTI but a raw rookie on games, made ESPN executive vice presidents John Skipper and John Walsh chortle in the control room. Producer Jay Rothman seemed thrilled: "It was scary good. Good enough to put on the air, right out of the box. We're ecstatic, to be honest."
Tony Kornheiser can try to play down the expectations, but the early reviews are in and it is looking like he'll be the big star of the new MNF.
Which made me find look up this article:
New 'MNF' team buckles up
WASHINGTON — Watching the New York Giants play the Washington Redskins, Tony Kornheiser talked about Giant Jeremy Shockey's "jerk factor" and how good Giant Sammy Davis' near-interception was, given he has "only one eye."
A handful of ESPN higher-ups watched Kornheiser, Joe Theismann and Mike Tirico in their first rehearsals Wednesday for the ESPN's three-man booth for Monday NFL games, moving from ABC to ESPN next season. They used the studio of Pardon the Interruption to call a game taped last season. Kornheiser, co-host of ESPN's PTI but a raw rookie on games, made ESPN executive vice presidents John Skipper and John Walsh chortle in the control room. Producer Jay Rothman seemed thrilled: "It was scary good. Good enough to put on the air, right out of the box. We're ecstatic, to be honest."
