Monday Night Football on ESPN.
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Let me start off my commentary on ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast by saying, I can’t wait to watch Sunday Night Football with John Madden. ESPN’s broadcast was horrible. Two out of the three personalities were nothing more than annoying, the production crew let their eye stray from the prize, and I was ready to mute the TV and turn on the radio after the first 17 minutes of the broadcast.
I have nothing bad to say about Joe Theismann, who, during the course of the broadcast, kept his commentary short, concise, and on topic. The other two personalities they posted for this broadcast were unbearable. I would say that no less than 70% of the broadcast was spent talking about other teams and other players, as if totally unaware of the fact that there was a football game going on right in front of them that they were supposed to be concentrating on. At least 2 minutes was devoted to player grammar, 10 minutes was devoted to the long dead debate over the length and existence of the pre-season, and I kid you not - when the end of the game was nearing and there was a possibility of overtime - one of the personalities actually whined about how ridiculous this was and how it was passed his bed time.
Those loyal fans of the NFL on TV have gotten used to missing a couple of plays a game due to commercials. This is to be expected. However, what I do not expect and is frustrating beyond belief is missing plays (that you can here in the background noise) because the cameras are fixed on the afore mentioned broadcast personalities rambling on and on about something completely irrelevant. Not to mention, who the hell would “develop a storyline” of the course of the game. I think the game is story enough.
In conclusion, ESPN’s Monday Night Football sucks, just like their football console games did.