Jimmy Kimmel Banned From MNF

[Chocolate Lab]

Between the jokes about betting on the games and how weak the attendance was, this doesn't surprise me. He basically was making the product look bad. Can't have that.

 

[Kilyin]

Theismann was ten times the commentator that Kornhole is or ever will be. And I really don't like Theismann all that much.

They need to stop interviewing celebrities during the game. Nobody cares, we just want to watch the frickin game. And if you aren't talking about the game, or football, just shut up.

 

[TheCount]

Between the jokes about betting on the games and how weak the attendance was, this doesn't surprise me. He basically was making the product look bad. Can't have that.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

The reason Kimmel is banned isn't because of what he said about Joe, he's a comedian, they expected that. The people in the booth take shots at players all the time, who have no ability to defend themselves, how many times have they made fun of Grossman or some other player?

Kimmel is banned because he brought up betting on football, which the NFL likes to pretend doesn't exist and they can't punish Tony for playing along because that shows some sort of guilt or admission that they don't like people talking about gambling.

Don't buy the smoke and mirrors guys, this isn't about him being "mean to Joe". Joe is a grown man and doesn't need producers fighting his battles.

 

[thekavorka]

They shouldn't have any guests in the booth...except Charles Barkley.

 

[TheCount]

Theismann was ten times the commentator that Kornhole is or ever will be. And I really don't like Theismann all that much.

They need to stop interviewing celebrities during the game. Nobody cares, we just want to watch the frickin game. And if you aren't talking about the game, or football, just shut up.

You can't compare Thesismann to Kornheiser. Jaws is doing what Theismann did, he's supposed to be able to break down the plays and give insight. Kornheiser is there to bring up crap outside the game and be comical, so he's doing exactly what ESPN paid him to do.

 

[sacase]

Report: Kimmel banned from MNF

FOXSports.com, Updated 22 hours ago

It took Jimmy Kimmel a matter of 10 minutes to do what Dennis Miller needed two years to accomplish — getting the heave-ho from "Monday Night Football."

ESPN will no longer allow Kimmel any guest appearances on MNF after the ABC late-night host made several jokes about recently-fired analyst Joe Theismann, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Kimmel, who joined Mike Tirico, Tony Kornheiser and Ron Jaworski in the booth during the third quarter of the Giants' 31-10 win over the Falcons, joked about where Theismann was, insinuated that Kornheiser got Theismann fired (their on-air chemistry was often a topic of debate last season), and later remarked, "I'd also like to welcome Joe Theismann, watching from his living room with steam coming from his ears."

Kimmel's comments were "classless and disappointing," said Jay Rothman, ESPN's MNF producer, according to the Times. "It was cheap. The more he went on, the worse he got."

Rothman then affirmed that Kimmel would not be invited back.
Reached by the Times, Theismann said he was more amused than annoyed by Kimmel's comments.

"I don't have an opinion about what people say, but it's nice to know you're missed," Theismann said. "It's interesting that people remember me."

Theismann later added that MNF "has become Tony Kornheiser's show."

What's even funnier is that Kornholio asked someone last year who they would have sex with from desperate housewives. That is far and away more tackless than anything kimmel said. To me Kimmel was the best part of the broadcasat. ESPN is killing MNF.

 

[CosmicCowboy]

Al Michaels and John Madden ring a bell?

lol...i stand corrected sir...guess i just like Suzy...:starspin

 

[Hostile]

lol...i stand corrected sir...guess i just like Suzy...:starspin

You and Joe Namath.

 

[Big Country]

You and Joe Namath.

I actually miss Frank Gifford.

 

[Kilyin]

You can't compare Thesismann to Kornheiser. Jaws is doing what Theismann did, he's supposed to be able to break down the plays and give insight. Kornheiser is there to bring up crap outside the game and be comical, so he's doing exactly what ESPN paid him to do.

Really? I thought Kornhole was there to be annoying, look like he just rolled out of bed from a 3 day drinking binge, and pimp his PTI show during halftime. Bring back Jacked Up, and give Kornhole the axe, because MNF just sucks.

 

[Spectre]

Why is ESPN even doing this pointless and distracting guest-in-the-booth bit?
It made more sense on NBC when the guest was there to plug a new program of theirs on NBC or something. But ESPN is doing it merely out of tradition or something. It always detracts from the focus of the game and is an annoyance that needs to go all together.

 

[InmanRoshi]

Why is ESPN even doing this pointless and distracting guest-in-the-booth bit?
It made more sense on NBC when the guest was there to plug a new program of theirs on NBC or something. But ESPN is doing it merely out of tradition or something. It always detracts from the focus of the game and is an annoyance that needs to go all together.

Because ESPN is a sister station of ABC, and both are owned by Disney. Disney paid a lot of money for those football television rights, and they're fully going to take advantage of a captive adult male 18-to-49 demographic audience (the most elusive and coveted of them all) to market to and cross promote.

 

[Cbz40]

Good Lord, the sports media take themselves seriously. Could someone please remind them that we're interested in the sport, not them.

Isn't that the truth

 

[Billy Bullocks]

Shoot, what has to be done to get Kornheiser and Jaws banned? What a terrible broadcasting team they have this season! Get a real color man in there and enough with the comedian/sportswriter experiment...it doesn't work! :bang2:

I honestly find Jaworski to be really good in the booth. The guy actually has an idea as to what he is talking about. If it was just Tirico and Jaws it would be ok. But I find Tirico beyond boring.

Kornheiser is just fine on PTI, where the shows premise is geared around his and Wilbon's bull**** oppinions and discussion of the same stories they talk about on Jim Rome, Around the Horn, then PTI, and then Sports Center.


ESPN is such a joke. The Fox "News" of Sports "News". At least the "big time" programs. At least ESPNews gives you the story, and not much else.
Why people continue to watch ESPN's horrendous coverage of all sports is absolutely baffling.

 

[thekavorka]

Because ESPN is a sister station of ABC, and both are owned by Disney. Disney paid a lot of money for those football television rights, and they're fully going to take advantage of a captive adult male 18-to-49 demographic audience (the most elusive and coveted of them all) to market to and cross promote.

They never did this stuff when MNF was on ABC (which would have made a lot more sense if they wanted to cross promote).

 

[thekavorka]

ESPN is such a joke. The Fox "News" of Sports "News". At least the "big time" programs. At least ESPNews gives you the story, and not much else.
Why people continue to watch ESPN's horrendous coverage of all sports is absolutely baffling.

What other sports channels are available to the regular cable owner? Fox Sports Network is pretty much the only other choice and thats not very good either.

 

[InmanRoshi]

They never did this stuff when MNF was on ABC (which would have made a lot more sense if they wanted to cross promote).

They paid a lot more for TV rights this time around, and they're going to try to get their monies worth any way they can. Maddens and Michael probably had enough pull to keep guests out of the booth, but they still did lots of cross promotion. Remember the big ruckus with the MNF pre-game bit with the Desperate Housewives girl dropping her towel for T.O.?

 

[thekavorka]

Maddens and Michael probably had enough pull to keep guests out of the booth, but they still did lots of cross promotion. Remember the big ruckus with the MNF pre-game bit with the Desperate Housewives girl dropping her towel for T.O.?

True, but I don't care about that since it's not actually during the game.

Did SNF on ESPN have guests in the booth too? I never really watched the SNF on ESPN.

 

[CosmicCowboy]

You and Joe Namath.

but i wouldn't have asked her, i would have just give her a smooch...lol...:laugh2:

 

[J-DOG]

They should bring Merrill Hodge in with Jaworski and Tirico.
Hodge plus Jaworski would be fun to watch and those two break down a ton of film during the season.