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POSTED 10:47 p.m. EDT; LAST UPDATED 11:17 p.m. EDT, June 19, 2007
MIKE AND MIKE AND MIKE ON MNF
Michael McCarthy of USA Today reports that ESPN will assign morning radio hosts Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic to work the back half of the Monday Night Football season-opening doubleheader.
Mike and Mike, to whom we often refer as Man-Girl and Meatball, will be joined in the booth by a third Mike: Mike Ditka.
Greenberg, who revels in behaving like a whiny sissy, makes no bones about wanting to someday be on the MNF broadcast. Golic, who revels is behaving like a goofy eating machine, would like to get there, too. (Hey, Mikes, the first rule of behaving like grown-ups is to never talk publicly about your professional aspirations.)
Frankly, we don't understand the appeal of these two. Never have. Probably never will. But at least it gives us fodder for the back end of the Live Blog during what could be an otherwise ho-hum game between the 49ers and the Cardinals.
Especially if Ditka drops a Levitra or two into Greenberg's Perrier -- or Golic's gravy boat.
POSTED 9:16 a.m. EDT, June 20, 2007
HOW WILL DITKA USE MNF PLATFORM? by Michael David Smith
The news that Mike Ditka will be in the Monday Night Football booth for the second game of ESPN's opening night doubleheader raises an interesting question: Will Ditka take the opportunity to continue his crusade against NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw?
Ditka has spent the last few months railing against Upshaw for what Ditka believes is a failure of the players' union to take care of retired players who are now in ill health as a result of injuries suffered on the field. With millions of people watching the Monday night opener (as Peter King noted this week, more people watched the second game of last year's Monday Night Football doubleheader than watched this year's NBA Finals), will Ditka take the opportunity to get his message out to a huge audience?
Similar questions were raised last year, when Bryant Gumbel bashed Upshaw on Gumbel's HBO show. Considering that Gumbel had just been hired as the play-by-play man on NFL Network, the league office was worried that he might take that opportunity to reiterate his thoughts on the NFL players' union. As it turned out, Gumbel stuck to the game on the field. (And the gas in his digestive tract.)
MIKE AND MIKE AND MIKE ON MNF
Michael McCarthy of USA Today reports that ESPN will assign morning radio hosts Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic to work the back half of the Monday Night Football season-opening doubleheader.
Mike and Mike, to whom we often refer as Man-Girl and Meatball, will be joined in the booth by a third Mike: Mike Ditka.
Greenberg, who revels in behaving like a whiny sissy, makes no bones about wanting to someday be on the MNF broadcast. Golic, who revels is behaving like a goofy eating machine, would like to get there, too. (Hey, Mikes, the first rule of behaving like grown-ups is to never talk publicly about your professional aspirations.)
Frankly, we don't understand the appeal of these two. Never have. Probably never will. But at least it gives us fodder for the back end of the Live Blog during what could be an otherwise ho-hum game between the 49ers and the Cardinals.
Especially if Ditka drops a Levitra or two into Greenberg's Perrier -- or Golic's gravy boat.
POSTED 9:16 a.m. EDT, June 20, 2007
HOW WILL DITKA USE MNF PLATFORM? by Michael David Smith
The news that Mike Ditka will be in the Monday Night Football booth for the second game of ESPN's opening night doubleheader raises an interesting question: Will Ditka take the opportunity to continue his crusade against NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw?
Ditka has spent the last few months railing against Upshaw for what Ditka believes is a failure of the players' union to take care of retired players who are now in ill health as a result of injuries suffered on the field. With millions of people watching the Monday night opener (as Peter King noted this week, more people watched the second game of last year's Monday Night Football doubleheader than watched this year's NBA Finals), will Ditka take the opportunity to get his message out to a huge audience?
Similar questions were raised last year, when Bryant Gumbel bashed Upshaw on Gumbel's HBO show. Considering that Gumbel had just been hired as the play-by-play man on NFL Network, the league office was worried that he might take that opportunity to reiterate his thoughts on the NFL players' union. As it turned out, Gumbel stuck to the game on the field. (And the gas in his digestive tract.)
