{{{{{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.
Jimmy Kimmel might be fun. I still miss the Giff.
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.
Jim Rome???<i>JIM FUCKING ROME???</i> Jesus Christ, that attention whore is the <b>WORST</b> “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.
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.
/Jim Rome/
Rack him!
/Jim Rome
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… 
*quarterback - sorry…
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
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.
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.
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…