Report: Joe Tessitore, Booger McFarland will not return to ESPN's MNF booth

HungryLion · May 10, 2020

bewp7 said:
espn ruined monday night football. every thing they have done made it worse and the games are mostly bad too.

There aren’t enough good matchups on a week to week basis, to put premiere games on all the primetime slot.

Between Sunday night football, Monday night football. Thursday night football and “America’s game of the week” at 4:30 timeslot. It’s just too much

Aven8 · May 10, 2020

Wow, Manning turned down that money or what?!? Cray cray

Risen Star · May 10, 2020

It's a huge loss. McFarland is the preeminent analyst in the game.

Just for instance, take this recent draft. McFarland was the one they went to when the Cowboys drafted Neville Gallimore and I feel I know him better than the other 6 guys combined thanks to his expertise in film study.

big dog cowboy · May 10, 2020

Risen Star said:
Just for instance, take this recent draft. McFarland was the one they went to when the Cowboys drafted Neville Gallimore

DL commenting on DL just like The Playmaker commented on WR.

ThreeandOut · May 10, 2020

They need to bring back Mike Tirico and add Lewis Reddick.

ultron · May 10, 2020

My dream MNF crew would be Peyton Manning and Eric Dickerson. They aren’t going to get Manning, but Dickerson is fantastic on these sports talk shows & I think he’d kill it as a commentator.

KJJ · May 10, 2020

You know the MNF booth is a mess when they axe both announcers.

SteveTheCowboy · May 10, 2020

cern said:
The ship is foundering.

Firing booger bailed out some of the water. Just horrible....not ALL boogers fault...the vomit cam was problematic.

Plankton · May 10, 2020

Tessitore is a complete goon, with the contrived excitement over the most average plays. He makes Gus Johnson seem normal. I mean, look at this guy:

Just horrid. He has no ability to make the commentators with him any better. Not that Witten nor McFarland were great, but Tessitore did nothing to make them better. An announcerless game would have been an improvement.

eromeopolk · May 10, 2020

Go to what would have happen if someone would not have tried to make marijuana legal 20 years before its time...

Nate Newton was a John Madden favorite and would have been in route to the booth but stupid is as stupid does. Rumor had it that John was really playing Nate up to merge into broadcasting.

I think he could work great as an color analyst (He could be the Don Meredith of this generation). Combine Nate Newton, Nate Burleson as the other analyst, and Gus Johnson with play by play. Burleson is real good.

Jake · May 10, 2020

big dog cowboy said:
Report: Joe Tessitore, Booger McFarland will not return to ESPN's MNF booth

This may be one of those rare topics where everyone agrees.

Williamsboys · May 10, 2020

Don Meredith and Frank Gifford's ashes can announce a game better than these clowns.

nightrain · May 10, 2020

It's an upgrade, but still substandard. ESPN is a joke.

star-ving · May 10, 2020

Bowdown27 said:
Booger was one of the worst announcers. Seems espn has that track record. Kornheiser and jaworski to name a couple.

I like Jaws...Other than the 80 NFC Championship.

zerofill · May 10, 2020

Greatest Day in MNF history lol

stiletto · May 10, 2020

tunahelper said:
I hope and pray the weight of their many failures sinks the entire corporation. They are near bankrupt.

Agreed...

Alexander · May 10, 2020

I fail to see a group of announcers that will be an upgrade.

Anyone have a list?

Montanalo · May 10, 2020

Booger wasn't that good on MNF

That being said, I always enjoyed his takes on the old Mike & Mike show.

big dog cowboy · May 10, 2020

DakPresgoat said:
There aren’t enough good matchups on a week to week basis, to put premiere games on all the primetime slot.

Between Sunday night football, Monday night football. Thursday night football and “America’s game of the week” at 4:30 timeslot. It’s just too much

Some of the reason I've advocated for there to be 2 MNF games each week. Televise the best matchup and show updates and highlights as they happen from the other game. If the primary game turns into a blow out, switch to the other game. That would be far more entertaining for everyone.

JBS · May 10, 2020

Alexander said:
I fail to see a group of announcers that will be an upgrade.

Anyone have a list?

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