Hallelujah.
I'm not sure I would have predicted Kornheiser lasting longer than Joe, but that appears to be a done deal.
From USA Today's Michael Heistand:
Ron Jaworski is the logical and reported replacement which works for me. My choice would never happen because of the need for the former player/know it all angle ... but for me personally I'd love to see Wilbon in the booth. He's smart, knows what the story is, and doesn't try to sugarcoat anything. Wilbon excels at other sports and probably couldn't details the needed strategical adjustments at halftime, but I'd be entertained. Another option which Heistand pointed out, Bill Parcells. Now that I would enjoy as well. Talk about a departure from Joe.After being an NFL game analyst on ESPN prime-time games for 19 years, Joe Theismann's run is over.
In response to a profootballtalk.com report that ESPN will drop Joe Theismann from its Monday Night Football, ESPN's Mike Soltys said Sunday that "we have nothing to announce."
But an industry official with direct knowledge of the move says Theismann, who last year worked with play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico and rookie game analyst Tony Kornheiser, won't be back on MNF. Theismann clearly didn't mesh with Kornheiser, a longtime newspaper writer who co-hosts ESPN's Pardon the Interruption daytime talk show and had never called live game action.
Who would you like to see join Tirico and TK?
Source: (Seattle Times) (USA Today)
So did Kornheiser order the hit on Theismann (The Big Lead)
Theismann replaced (Sports Media Watch)
There is a God (DCSportsChick)
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