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POSTED 8:10 a.m. EDT; UPDATED 9:46 a.m. EDT, June 23, 2007
JOEY SUNSHINE SOUNDS OFF, AGAIN
As part of Joe Thiesmann's side gig as a pitchman for prostate health, the former Commanders quarterback recently was in Boston. And it's obvious that he's got something other than a doctor's finger up his butt.
Joe is still upset about the manner in which he was unceremoniously dumped from ESPN's Monday Night Football.
"I'm not happy with what happened," Theismann said. "When you sit down in a meeting and they tell you that you've had your best year ever, and the ratings have gone up 50 percent and the executives don't even talk to my boss and tell me that they didn't like the fact that I talked about football, you have a little trouble trying to process how you could have done better.
"For Mike [Tirico] and Tony [Kornheiser] and Ron [Jaworski], it’ll be a learning process again, because Ron hasn't done television. Tony is extremely neurotic. And I think Mike really settled in. I felt like the last six games we really settled in as a real solid team, all of us. And now, they’ll have to re-create that chemistry again. I'm disappointed, certainly I never expected it. But the people at ESPN understand how to deliver a product. I will say this — I believe, 100 percent that you cannot insult the football fan. 'Monday Night Football' is about football, and I hope that they continue to deliver that product to the fan. 'Monday Night Football' cannot be an extension of 'Pardon The Interruption,' because the game is too important. That's just the way I feel."
That's fine, Joe. But if that's the way that you feel, why are you still working for ESPN? Why haven't you left?
You see, Joe wants to still pocket his MNF money, even if he's no longer on the MNF broadcast. So he's more than happy to continue to work for the company that disrespected him, because doing so pays much better than any other gig he can currently find.
And ESPN doesn't want to fire him, because they don't want to have to pay out the balance of his contract and get nothing in return. But what's worse? Paying him not to work, or paying him to write least-common-denominator Internet fluff while he's periodically calling into question the decisions of ESPN management? (Hell, we're doing that for free.)
For the company, the smart outcome is to work out a deal where he walks away for something less than the full value of his contract. But it could be that they're waiting for Joe to eventually say or do something in anger that would constitute a breach of his contract, thereby allowing them to cut him loose, and also stiff him.
JOEY SUNSHINE SOUNDS OFF, AGAIN
As part of Joe Thiesmann's side gig as a pitchman for prostate health, the former Commanders quarterback recently was in Boston. And it's obvious that he's got something other than a doctor's finger up his butt.
Joe is still upset about the manner in which he was unceremoniously dumped from ESPN's Monday Night Football.
"I'm not happy with what happened," Theismann said. "When you sit down in a meeting and they tell you that you've had your best year ever, and the ratings have gone up 50 percent and the executives don't even talk to my boss and tell me that they didn't like the fact that I talked about football, you have a little trouble trying to process how you could have done better.
"For Mike [Tirico] and Tony [Kornheiser] and Ron [Jaworski], it’ll be a learning process again, because Ron hasn't done television. Tony is extremely neurotic. And I think Mike really settled in. I felt like the last six games we really settled in as a real solid team, all of us. And now, they’ll have to re-create that chemistry again. I'm disappointed, certainly I never expected it. But the people at ESPN understand how to deliver a product. I will say this — I believe, 100 percent that you cannot insult the football fan. 'Monday Night Football' is about football, and I hope that they continue to deliver that product to the fan. 'Monday Night Football' cannot be an extension of 'Pardon The Interruption,' because the game is too important. That's just the way I feel."
That's fine, Joe. But if that's the way that you feel, why are you still working for ESPN? Why haven't you left?
You see, Joe wants to still pocket his MNF money, even if he's no longer on the MNF broadcast. So he's more than happy to continue to work for the company that disrespected him, because doing so pays much better than any other gig he can currently find.
And ESPN doesn't want to fire him, because they don't want to have to pay out the balance of his contract and get nothing in return. But what's worse? Paying him not to work, or paying him to write least-common-denominator Internet fluff while he's periodically calling into question the decisions of ESPN management? (Hell, we're doing that for free.)
For the company, the smart outcome is to work out a deal where he walks away for something less than the full value of his contract. But it could be that they're waiting for Joe to eventually say or do something in anger that would constitute a breach of his contract, thereby allowing them to cut him loose, and also stiff him.
