Anyone hear Kornheiser on the Dan Patrick show?

Before Bob Golic got shitcanned from AM 1540 a couple years ago, I saw him on a remote in Long Beach, CA. He looked, well, he looked horrible. Very overweight, looked haggard, and could barely walk (a decade or so in the NFL trenches can do that to you).

You may want to look into taking him in any dead pool you are joining soon.

 

kornheiser said during the patrick interview that he won't develop the kind of rapport with theismann that he has with wilbon.... said it would be impossible to duplicate....hmmm.... i thought theismann left tony hanging a few times monday night...

 

What's kind of sad is - they're using that great, old music.  When you hear that music, it cues your ears up, and you expect exciting things.  And what we got was a bland cable telecast.

I'm hearing a lot of viewers say they actually liked Dennis Miller better... Ouch...

 

Well Miller is funnier that Kornheiser.

And he knows more about football than Theismann.

 

I always liked Miller. And actually, I remember always looking forward to those ESPN.com columns on Tuesdays "interpreting" (or was it "translating"?) Miller's MNF analysis. Very, very informative and educational. And usually pretty entertaining, too, until everybody just gave up around Week 11 or so, and it was clear he wouldn't be back.

 

PTI begins with Tony saying, "C+?? you try broadcasting a game with Theismann's hand on your thigh."

At least he's funny on one show.

 

like when tony was trying to get theismann to admit that johnson is a downgrade over culpepper? obviously johnson is an improvement over the way culpepper played last year, but theismann can't be that stupid. he had to know what mr. tony meant -- that a healthy and competent culpepper is better than a healthy johnson.

 

Wilbon just said that Paul Farhi -- the WP writer that trashed Tony -- was supposed to be on five good minutes on PTI, but the "weasel" bailed out.

Amusing.

 

'MNF' is no longer destination viewing. It hasn't been for quite some time, and it won't be in the foreseeable future.
I don't think there's anything a network can do to change that.
With all of the college and NFL football available on broadcast, cable and satellite, you can watch football every day of the week.
Nothing you do in the broadcast booth is going to recapture 'MNF's cache.

 

Exactly.

In the olden days, you'd get a game on CBS and two on NBC. Then you'd get MNF.

Now, with Sunday Ticket and all the TV deals, MNF is just another football game.

 

The crazy thing is TK lost his ESPN radio show for criticizing people at the network...

Was it Bob Golic who ripped him or Mike Golic?

Can you imagine being the WP writer assigned to critique Kornheiser? Talk about a lose-lose situation...

Also, The Big Lead is a great blog. It's one of the best around.