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What Would You Do if You Ran Monday Night Football?

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by SSreporters

After taking a painstaking look at MNF last night, it has inspired me to write an article of ways to improve MNF. If you think that there is no need to improve, you are either someone from ESPN, or currently in that mental institution's WiFi section. Jokes aside, what would you do if you called the shots for MNF? Here's what I would do.

  1. Get rid of the sideline reporters. What the heck do they add to the game? When FOX covers a game and a player gets injured, they (depending on the announcing team) don't go to a reporter for the update, but get a stat boy or someone else to report it to the announcers.
  2. No more Kornheiser. I like him on PTI, but he seems to be doing PTI during the game with Jaws. He attempts to be funny, it fails most of the time, and it's just another talking head in the booth.
  3. Ban celebrity interviews. Again, it adds nothing to the game. I know it's a MNF tradition, but it needs to stop.
  4. Never ever ever ever invite Joe Theismann back. He's just an angrier version of Sean Salisbury, and he seemed to have a tough time with Kornheiser and Tirico.
  5. No more useless stats. I just wrote a previous article about that, it adds nothing but graphics.

Okay, it's your turn.


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JuTMSY4Legend
856 days ago
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Hey, at least theismann knows what a cut block is...
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SSreportersLegend
856 days ago
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I wonder if he gets offended when someone says "Hey Theismann, break a leg".
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JuTMSY4Legend
856 days ago
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well, the last one to do it was LT...soooo
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SSreportersLegend
856 days ago
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We could do this all day long.
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
856 days ago
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I think you rip MNF way more than its due. All things aside it is not a bad broadcast.
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SSreportersLegend
856 days ago
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What show are you watching?
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Ea34Div-I Stud
856 days ago
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I like the idea of losing the sideline reporters and celebrity interviews. Another suggestion I have is to speed the game up! If you notice, Monday Night Football games move at an incrediblty slow pace (especially in the first half) compared to their locally broadcast Sunday counterparts. This is because after almost every play there's some stupid graphic or a commercial break. I'm convinced the play clock is delayed on MNF games. I know you have to give people on the West Coast a chance to get to home/to the bar and get situated, but it really is irritating.
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SSreportersLegend
856 days ago
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Thank god the Seahawks have one MNF game this year.
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DwalbertVarsity Captain
856 days ago
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Not having 75,000 graphics and stats in football is like asking baseball commentators to just do play by play and not have the sidebar conversations. It wont happen. At least all of the graphics aren't as annoying as the fox ones that make noises all the time.
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IbeargRed-Shirting
856 days ago
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i agree with dwalbert about the graphics and stats... it's not gonna happen, maybe one or two of those other things could happen though. no celebrity interviews would be grrrrreat.
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Anonymous Fanatic #1
856 days ago
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Kornheiser must go. didn't he say he would quit last year?
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Anonymous Fanatic #2
856 days ago
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i hate that stupid machine thing that like runs in place and jumps up and down. its like its warming up or something. that might be fox though. that thing needs to go.
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Hit By a PitchVarsity
856 days ago
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Hee. That is Fox. That thing creeps me out, but so does the MNF score dildo thing.
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ScottVanPeltStyle.comWaterboy
856 days ago
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Add an occasional cowbell sound for big plays. We all know how powerful more cowbell can be.
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Hit By a PitchVarsity
856 days ago
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I would hire Hawk Harrelson to do the play-by-play -- y'all are a bunch of east coasters so you've missed out on the joy of the Hawk. Then I'd hire Gilbert Arenas to do the color commentary.
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Oh No RomoDraft Pick
856 days ago
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What are you nuts? You want to fix MNF, not make it worse.
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Hit By a PitchVarsity
855 days ago
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Hee.
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
856 days ago
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Mike Ditka, a bottle of scotch and a box of cigars alone in the broadcast booth. No censorship button. And Theismann is not allowed within 500 miles of the stadium.
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Hit By a PitchVarsity
855 days ago
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That is the best idea I've ever heard.
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JuTMSY4Legend
855 days ago
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really...a drunk ditka and theismann would actually be entetaining...
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JuTMSY4Legend
855 days ago
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at least until the murder trial...and even then...hmm
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LOUD PROUDPee Wee
856 days ago
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Thats easy.........naked mens!!!!!!!
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JoliecatJV Squad
856 days ago
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There's always going to be purists who remember what MNF was like in its heyday with Don Meredith and Howard Cosell. This is a completely different era and MNF has to evolve just like everything else by tossing out lots of meaningless stats and celebrity interviews to keep the post MTV generation with their gnat attention span interested.
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Oh No RomoDraft Pick
855 days ago
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Huh, you say something.
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Anonymous Fanatic #3
832 days ago
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Kornheiser's inane, combative comments make me want to stick him in pads and line him up against Brian Urlacher or something. I don't know how I'm going to stand another season of listening to him, but I'll be danged if I'll let him keep me from watching MNF.
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