Thursday, October 18, 2007

Jimmy Kimmel Misses Joe Theismann

While watching the Giants - Falcons game on Monday Night Football this past week viewers were treated to the comedy of one Jimmy Kimmel. The late night talk show host on ESPN sister network ABC just couldn't help but mention former MNF analyst Joe Theismann on more than one occasion.

More hilarious than his actual remarks is the dead silence reaction from the MNF trio of Tirico, Jaworski, and Kornheiser. The Worldwide Leader has now apparently banned Kimmel from the Monday Night Football booth. ESPN should take that one step further and ban every "celebrity" from the booth and stop turning MNF into a variety show. The trend these days is to turn sports broadcasts into entertainment spectacles in order to attract the casual television viewer. The problem is that this technique alienates the core audince of true sports fans who are tuning in to watch a sporting event and not a sideshow. So ESPN, how about just sticking to football? I mean does any football fan really want to hear from Christian Slater in the middle of a NFL game?

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Yankees vs. Cleveland 6:37

Let's GO Chinnie Chinnie Wang Wang