Kornheiser on MNF

[Still a Bulls fan]

I know the game just started and it's the pre-season, but does he really need to be there?

 

[patchs]

Hell, yeah!
Mr. Tony rocks!

 

[ondeadline]

About the only reason to even consider watching exhibition football.

 

[Still a Bulls fan]

About the only reason to even consider watching exhibition football.

That's a good ass point.


I guess it's just going to take some getting use to with all these guys on ESPN after watching Al Michaels for pretty much my entire life on MNF.

 

[Jersey_Shore]

Very, very early impression, but ... I don't like it so far.

Subject to change being that we're only four minutes into the game.

 

[Songbird]

Who'd Tirico blow to get this gig?

Kornheiser doesn't sound natural, and I hate PTI (ATH is the best show on ESPN).

Doesn't the score graphic look 70's retro?

 

[Terence Mann]

Mr. Tony doesn't seem suited for this format. He needs time to get off his best riffs, and third-chair violin doesn't get many extended solos.

 

[Trey Beamon]

He's making good points, but it's not overly entertaining. Actually, it's been pretty dull thus far.

Theismann isn't a good partner, either. Kornheiser needs someone to go back and forth with, ala Wilbon. Joey T ain't it.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Here is what I like so far about Tony K. -- he calls Joey T. out. When Joey "Rhymes with Heisman" is saying stupid crap fellating Art Shell as being better prepared for NFL re-entrance than Joe Gibbs was, Tony simply says, "Really?" in that tone that only Tony can pull off. I think that as Tony gets his sea legs, he'll get better. I still think he can play Meredith to Theismann's Cosell.

 

[suburbanite]

Who'd Tirico blow to get this gig?

Kornheiser doesn't sound natural, and I hate PTI (ATH is the best show on ESPN).

Doesn't the score graphic look 70's retro?

Actually, the question should be who did Tirico sexually harass [allegedly]?

So, since you're an ATH fan, you're saying the three-man booth should be the Andy Pettitte lookalike, Eddie Munster and Tim Cowlishaw?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

They want to raise MNF ratings with an announcer? Here's how you do it:

Set up a chat room, have the guy in the booth talking with people in the chat room while mentioning some of their comments on TV. THAT would be great.

 

[dreunc1542]

Here is what I like so far about Tony K. -- he calls Joey T. out. When Joey "Rhymes with Heisman" is saying stupid crap fellating Art Shell as being better prepared for NFL re-entrance than Joe Gibbs was, Tony simply says, "Really?" in that tone that only Tony can pull off. I think that as Tony gets his sea legs, he'll get better. I still think he can play Meredith to Theismann's Cosell.

Howard Cosell just rolled over in his grave.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Here is what I like so far about Tony K. -- he calls Joey T. out. When Joey "Rhymes with Heisman" is saying stupid crap fellating Art Shell as being better prepared for NFL re-entrance than Joe Gibbs was, Tony simply says, "Really?" in that tone that only Tony can pull off. I think that as Tony gets his sea legs, he'll get better. I still think he can play Meredith to Theismann's Cosell.

Howard Cosell just rolled over in his grave.

Cosell would get pissed about any comparison that didn't include Jesus, Gutenberg or Einstein.

 

[dreunc1542]

Here is what I like so far about Tony K. -- he calls Joey T. out. When Joey "Rhymes with Heisman" is saying stupid crap fellating Art Shell as being better prepared for NFL re-entrance than Joe Gibbs was, Tony simply says, "Really?" in that tone that only Tony can pull off. I think that as Tony gets his sea legs, he'll get better. I still think he can play Meredith to Theismann's Cosell.

Howard Cosell just rolled over in his grave.

Cosell would get pissed about any comparison that didn't include Jesus, Gutenberg or Einstein.

True, but Theismann is beyond awful as an announcer.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Here is what I like so far about Tony K. -- he calls Joey T. out. When Joey "Rhymes with Heisman" is saying stupid crap fellating Art Shell as being better prepared for NFL re-entrance than Joe Gibbs was, Tony simply says, "Really?" in that tone that only Tony can pull off. I think that as Tony gets his sea legs, he'll get better. I still think he can play Meredith to Theismann's Cosell.

Howard Cosell just rolled over in his grave.

Cosell would get pissed about any comparison that didn't include Jesus, Gutenberg or Einstein.

True, but Theismann is beyond awful as an announcer.

I didn't mean that Theismann was Cosell's equivalent. I just think that Tony K. popping Joey T.'s balloon and questioning Joey T.'s assumptions will make for good TV -- like Meredith and Cosell.

 

[Songbird]

Who'd Tirico blow to get this gig?

Kornheiser doesn't sound natural, and I hate PTI (ATH is the best show on ESPN).

Doesn't the score graphic look 70's retro?

Actually, the question should be who did Tirico sexually harass [allegedly]?

So, since you're an ATH fan, you're saying the three-man booth should be the Andy Pettitte lookalike, Eddie Munster and Tim Cowlishaw?

Pettitte line is funny. I think Reali is great. He could be in the booth and the conversation would not skip a beat. He's sharp as a whip. I think Woody would be pretty funny compared with Korndog. And Joey T. gets on my nerves. He means well, but everything has to be his version of right all the time; he has Paul Maguire syndrome.

but Reali would dominate in the booth.

 

[Batman]

Tirico isn't horrible as an announcer, as far as keeping stuff straight and getting names right. I just associate him more with something like the GMAC Bowl. It's going to be hard to get used to him as the MNF guy.

Kornheiser will get better as the chemistry gets better. And Theisman? Well, he's one of those guys that just doesn't broadcast well. I've heard some radio and TV interviews where he's actually shown signs of intelligence and was able to get his point across effectively.

What's REALLY terrible, though, are those Vikings uniforms. Good god. They look like those old Lego houses I used to build as a kid, when my sisters would use up all the white and red blocks and I'd be stuck with yellow, black, blue, whatever, and they'd just end up as gobs of color all slammed together. When will teams realize this does NOT look good!?

 

[Batman]

Don't know if anybody caught it or not, but right before they went to commercial at the 2 minute warning, the score graphic showed "Oakland 48, Minnesota 31" and the time as 0:00 in the fourth quarter. A prediction, perhaps? Or is somebody going to get dragged by the hair around the ESPN campus a few times?

 

[wickedwritah]

The positioning of the time/score graphic is interesting. Viewers' eyes more likely will find it easier since it's on the bottom of the screen in the middle, but that spot also provides potential for key parts of the play being hidden.

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

Who'd Tirico blow to get this gig?

Kornheiser doesn't sound natural, and I hate PTI (ATH is the best show on ESPN).

Doesn't the score graphic look 70's retro?

ATH ain't got **** on PTI.