# Monday Night Football, what have you done?!(weak rant) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656 "2002-08-06T18:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/21 "2002-08-07T17:43:52Z")
{{{{{Chris Berman!?}}}}}} How about DICK VITALE, BABEE!? I say lets keep the ESPN guys and the comedians on some other station with Springer, the “real” world, “Girls on Drugs”, and all that other quality programming. ---
**Author:** ![sezyou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@sezyou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sezyou)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/22 "2002-08-08T07:54:25Z")
Jimmy Kimmel might be fun. I still miss the Giff. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/23 "2002-08-08T11:05:54Z")
As long as Miller is gone the show _has_ to be better, no matter who they replaced him with. I personally like Madden and hope to see him do well with Michaels. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/24 "2002-08-08T15:13:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bomzaway \* > \*\*I’m okay with Michaels and Madden, but wouldn’t it be interesting to have guests in the booth now and then? Even if just for a half? > > The aforementioned Jimmy Kimmel and Boomer Esiason would be good. Jay Mohr, Tom Arnold, Sterling Sharpe, Chris Berman, Jim Rome; even people outside the sports industry that are well versed in football. I’ve heard Matt Damon and Ben Afleck on the radio, both seem well spoken. When the Pats are playing they’d be interesting guests. > > Just a thought… \*\* Jim Rome???\JIM FUCKING ROME???\ Jesus Christ, that attention whore is the \WORST\ “sports” guy working today! The only reason he tells each of his callers “Do not suck” is because he sucks so bad than any additional suckeyness would exceed the maximum suck allowance in the universe and cause the end of all creation. We’d all be better off if Jim Everet had taken his head off insted of just making a lunge at asshole boy. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/25 "2002-08-08T15:14:15Z")
Jimmy Kimmel wouldn’t be a plus in the booth. He’s best outside of the booth - it would make for too many uncomfortable moments if he were in there making fun of his co-workers. I think if he were in the booth, people would tire of him quickly. Also, there were too many people in the booth last year; probably better to minimize the ego quotient. Besides, we’re talking about television here. It’s not completely important for the broadcasters to be detail oriented. We can already see what’s happening! Of course, if they spout super-obvious stuff or completely misread a play, then it’s counterproductive. But I like the folksy, featureish stuff. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/26 "2002-08-08T23:31:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\* > > Jim Rome???\JIM FUCKING ROME???\ Jesus Christ, that attention whore is the \WORST\ “sports” guy working today! The only reason he tells each of his callers “Do not suck” is because he sucks so bad than any additional suckeyness would exceed the maximum suck allowance in the universe and cause the end of all creation. We’d all be better off if Jim Everet had taken his head off insted of just making a lunge at asshole boy. \*\* /Jim Rome/ Rack him! /Jim Rome ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/27 "2002-08-09T17:57:08Z")
Jim Rome is the worst excuse for a broadcaster in history. I tried listening to him, but I failed. He was terrible with his “takes” and his “clones”. I remember when he was interviewing quaterback Jim Everett and called him Chrissy… Everett knocked him right out of his chair… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/28 "2002-08-09T17:58:51Z")
\*quarterback - sorry… ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/29 "2002-08-13T01:56:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\* He’s crude. In other words, the perfect color man. > > ABC, get a clue!! Put on Jimmy. \*\* Oh yeah, just what prime time on Monday Night needs, a fat guy making dick and fart jokes during a football game. /W C Fields/ Go 'way boy, ya bother me. /W C Fields/ Go back to speed dialing Howard Stern, 'kay? :wally :wally ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/30 "2002-08-13T02:35:33Z")
I am in the minority of hating John Madden from the start. Every year, Madden gets closer and closer to his alter-ego… close your eyes, put a full-length white coat on him, and make him walk toward you… and sing the song, “Put One Foot in Front of the Other”. That’s right… John Madden = The Winter Warlock. What **BOOM** a **BOOM** blowhard. The master of the obvious. I have never understood his popularity. Personally, he’s ruined MNF for me. I think Michaels is one of the best, but for chrissakes! John **BOOM** Madden? Stick a toothpick in my eye. It looks like another year of watching the game on TV with the volume turned down and the radio on. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/31 "2002-08-13T05:41:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lord Ashtar \* > \*\* > > My friend, you are SO not alone! > \ > “When Dallas puts #65 in at tight end, ya gotta be expecting either a run or a pass.” > > Read that again. Yes, that’s right. Madden is a genius. He ruled out the 80-some-odd yard field goal, and slyly managed to also discount the surprise punt. Even Summerall seemed stunned, and didn’t say anything for a few seconds. To this day, I will never understand what was running through his senile old head during that play. > \\*\* I completely agree. The moment that did it for me was when I was watching a Tampa Bay game, and it came down to a marker-ruling first down play. The comment out of Madden when the ball was barely before the first down marker: “That ball was very close to the marker. Just inches away really. Actually, more like cubic inches, which are smaller than regular inches.” And then he proceeded to blabber on incessantly about his own skewed definition of cubic inches. I hate that man with a passion, and I think he’s sustained far too many head injuries to be speaking in public without an endless supply of cue-cards. Dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656/32 "2002-08-13T21:48:21Z")
Too bad Dennis Miller’s gone, I only needed him to mention Xenophon of Ephesus, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Sven Nykvist to win the betting pool. Oh well, new commentator, new pool. I’ll bet Madden says the word “bunting” 312 times during the opening broadcast. Oh please Lord, let there be bunting… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monday-night-football-what-have-you-done-weak-rant/122656.md?page=1)