News: ESPN plotting dream 'Monday Night Football' booth: Al Michaels and Peyton Manning

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ESPN plotting dream 'Monday Night Football' booth: Al Michaels and Peyton Manning

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Thinking large and outside the box, ESPN plans to attempt to acquire Al Michaels from NBC Sports for "Monday Night Football," The Post has learned. ESPN would like to team Michaels with Peyton Manning in its dream booth, according to sources. Manning is now ESPN’s top choice as analyst after Tony Romo agreed to his 10-year, $180 million deal to remain with CBS last week.

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MNF is dead cause they have crap match-ups - I dont care who they get to announce the games.

Crap games - crap ratings...
small audience, means small ratings, not everyone has cable tv.
I mean that varies year-to-year.

The bigger issue is that Thursday night has taken away the appeal of Monday night.
Thur nite is on free tv, bigger audience. same for Sun nite games.
That is why espn gets mostly crap games, even if they had romo and michaels, it would not get the
ratings network tv gets with thur and sun nite games.
 

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I will add that I dont care for manning either, better than witten yeah, but not who they need.
Takes more than a famous player.
I got sick of peyton, with all his dumb commercials.
 

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small audience, means small ratings, not everyone has cable tv.

Thur nite is on free tv, bigger audience. same for Sun nite games.
That is why espn gets mostly crap games, even if they had romo and michaels, it would not get the
ratings network tv gets with thur and sun nite games.

Damn near everyone has "cable tv".
 

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Anyone care to explain how to guarantee better games on MNF?

Perhaps a crystal ball, a fortune teller, magic 8-ball?

ESPN has sucked for quite some time now.
Not long ago, they had to let go of 200 employees due to hemorrhaging money conditions.
 

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The broadcasting teams have gone to hell over the years. It’s tiring hearing motormouth Booger McFarland referred to as boog.

I think less talking would be a good thing. They do not need to analyze every play & stop with all the NFL gossip story lines & whatever charity they are pumping for a given week.
 
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ESPN has never had good night games for NFL.

They do a good job with College games but NFL games have been terrible since I was a kid on their network.

I hated their Sunday Night broadcasts in the past and their MNF has never been good either. Something is just off about it.

That ESPN pre-game crew is hot garbage, I can't stand to listen to their drivel or failed attempts at humor. It's like they're catering to the stupidest possible viewers.
 

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Question of the Day : Should he be hired by ESPN MNF, ..ill Peyton try to " steal " Romo's trademark thunder in predicting plays before the snap of the ball ?

" Inquiring Minds wanna know " :omg:
 

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Only for it to work if they can bring back John Madden and call from the other side Pat summerall and Jimmy the Greek and even that might not make Monday Night watchable
 

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I'm surprised manning is even interested in broadcasting.
Thought he already said no a few times.
 

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The ratings were dropping with ABC.
They were losing men 18-34 to Turner's wrestling and while ABC saw that as a real problem, the NFL didn't.

The challenge for the NFL is the under 35 male viewer. The rules to protect the players against CTE are counter to their lust for more mayhem. This fall, Microsoft and Sony are releasing the most anticipated video game systems in the history of the business with the highest prices for a system ever. That will be an investment that they will want to get their money's worth from with a plethora of new games available form the get go.

The attention span of the 12-34 male is at an all time low with so much need for action. The broadcast of NFL games is counter to that, even I struggle to stay involved with so much stop down. Time is becoming a more precious commodity to people and all they've done is stretch what could be played in under 3 hours to 3:30+ with the same amount of action but it's so start and stop that the perception is less action.

The competition for the consumers' money and time isn't going to slow down and the NFL is going counter to that by forcing the consumer to commit more time without more reward. They realized the paradigm had shifted which is why they embraced Fantasy football and now, gambling. Without those two elements, they'd be lucky to get the numbers of a hockey game.
 

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Peyton may not have the voice, but he has the same traits that make Romo so successful as a commentator. Football IQ, charisma, and a good sense of humor.
Far from it. Romo's one in a million that has the gift of an NFL commentator. Peyton is a geek like Aikman. :lmao2:
 

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small audience, means small ratings, not everyone has cable tv.

Thur nite is on free tv, bigger audience. same for Sun nite games.
That is why espn gets mostly crap games, even if they had romo and michaels, it would not get the
ratings network tv gets with thur and sun nite games.
18% of American homes are not connected to cable or satellite and even more have no internet.

ESPN is locked into the rates they can charge versus what the Nets can charge and they're expenses are almost as high. They're betting name announcers can get better games and more viewers and I think they're wrong.

MNF was a great idea, once upon a time, but that time has passed. When it was at it's peak, there were 3 games on Sunday and maybe 6 or 7 college games on Saturday, that wasn't enough for me to get my fix. MNF wasn't a football game, it was an event. The first years my wife and I picked a team and built the menu around the indigenous food of that area. Meredith and Cosell were bigger than the actual games and Tuesday morning water cooler talk usually included something that had taken place between them.

Now, there's TNF as well as college games and then comes Saturday. The football from 8a-12m is unmatched and if you get the sports package from DirecTV, you get the ACC, Big 10, Pac 12 and SEC networks and it's my choice what 3 games to watch at the same time all day long, I am not fed the games like the NFL does or forced to pay some ridiculous price for the Ticket. Tell ya, I thought I needed the Ticket until I went without it, I don't miss it at all.
 

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Damn near everyone has "cable tv".
No, they do not. I used to think that until we had to broadcast the notices for digital conversion and the stats the gov sent out were eye opening, 18% are not connected and dependent on the terrestrial signal. Guy that ran the local cable company told me that 30% of the homes in their area were not connected. 10% had to be disconnected monthly for non payment.
 

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Far from it. Romo's one in a million that has the gift of an NFL commentator. Peyton is a geek like Aikman. :lmao2:

Agree 100%. Listening to Aikman and eventualy Manning will be like eating a dirt sandwich. Romo brings that heat to the mic.
 

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Al Micheals and Peyton Manning both have annoying voices. ESPN should have Chris Berman Tom Jackson and Greg Cosell with some hot babe sideline reporter
 

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They were losing men 18-34 to Turner's wrestling and while ABC saw that as a real problem, the NFL didn't.

The challenge for the NFL is the under 35 male viewer. The rules to protect the players against CTE are counter to their lust for more mayhem. This fall, Microsoft and Sony are releasing the most anticipated video game systems in the history of the business with the highest prices for a system ever. That will be an investment that they will want to get their money's worth from with a plethora of new games available form the get go.

The attention span of the 12-34 male is at an all time low with so much need for action. The broadcast of NFL games is counter to that, even I struggle to stay involved with so much stop down. Time is becoming a more precious commodity to people and all they've done is stretch what could be played in under 3 hours to 3:30+ with the same amount of action but it's so start and stop that the perception is less action.

The competition for the consumers' money and time isn't going to slow down and the NFL is going counter to that by forcing the consumer to commit more time without more reward. They realized the paradigm had shifted which is why they embraced Fantasy football and now, gambling. Without those two elements, they'd be lucky to get the numbers of a hockey game.
Yep and there’s another factor even with the age group above that is everyone is simply too busy during the week with both parents working , kids , etc to sit down on weeknights for a 3 hour broadcast. Weekends is really only time for it. Shows during the week are being DVR and watch when they have time.

Now that I’m retired I avoid doing anything in public if possible on Sat or Sun. Even golf. It’s when everyone is out now. We try to travel Sun or Mon- Thur or Fri to avoid the crowds plus is cheaper.

If I have to go to HEB on the weekend it’s before 10:00 or it’s a madhouse.
 
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If you are not watching MNF now, would changing to Michaels/Manning change that? If they had hired Romo that wouldn't have changed for me but then I am not a fan of trying to listen to him.

I am not surprised ESPN thinks that would save MNF because they're the same people that put Tessitore, McFarland and Witten in that booth for an assault on the senses unmatched in the annals of sports broadcasting. Subtract Witten and it's actually worse, more McFarland and his none stop "our league" comments.

Some are not meant for the big stage. I used to watch Tessitore and McFarland on the SEC Net and they weren't nearly as bad as what they were on MNF.

Give me a good play-by-play guy, all my his little self, all alone in that booth, and let the ambience of the crowd and the game be a part of it like it used to be with Drees, Glieber and Scott.
 
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