Tony Kornheiser was terrible last year in his first season as a Monday Night Football analyst, showing none of the humor, intelligence and insight that make him great on Pardon The Interruption and his various radio gigs. Today his former broadcast partner, Joe Theismann, suggests in an interview with the Washington Post that Kornheiser realized things weren't working out: "In the middle of the season, Tony wanted to quit," Theismann said. "I encouraged him to stay with it."
If that's true, Theismann did a big disservice to football fans everywhere -- we deserve to have announcers who know what they're talking about in the Monday Night Football booth. Kornheiser showed up in the booth every week unprepared and ignorant of basic information about the teams. When Kornheiser wanted to quit, Theismann should have said, "You're right. You're awful. Quit now."
Of course, Theismann wasn't much better, and when ESPN fired Theismann and replaced him with Ron Jaworski, it took an enormous step in the right direction. Now let's hope Jaworski succeeds where Theismann failed -- either by teaching Kornheiser how to say something informative about football, or by telling him to do it the next time he says he wants to quit.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-31-2007 @ 9:14PM
metsfan said...
you do a disservice to football fans by posting this garbage.
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7-31-2007 @ 11:22PM
yellow said...
Thank you 1st poster....i hope this idiot doesnt get paid to write these blogs......
And kornheiser was ok on mnf..... all sports commentators are idiots.... except for soccer commentators cause they dont talk too much....the only thing that makes them tolerable is the colour commentator and kornheiser never took it too seriously....which is why it was ok.....
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7-31-2007 @ 11:54PM
Matt said...
I agree with the comments of the first two posters ... there is a certain arrogance among the writers at this site that always rubs me the wrong way ... Maybe it is because, generally speaking, I have trouble with writers who use three names or their middle initial in their byline ...
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8-01-2007 @ 8:27AM
the king adrock said...
I didn't think Kornheiser was terrible. He was working with Theismann...what can you expect? He'll be much better this year with Jaworski as they seem to get along well.
What's your excuse for posting the garbage that you regularly post?
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8-01-2007 @ 9:26AM
JMills said...
Wow, everyone already said what I was thinking. Theismann definitely was the one dragging the booth down. I expect the booth to be much better this year without him. Kornheiser wasn't great last year, but he spent half the time calling theismann on his bullshit and that is good enough for me. Kornheiser was nowhere near as bad as Dennis Miller on MNF. Kornheiser should be much better this year with a more than competent analyst in Jaws, I've always loved his analysis on NFL Live.
I'll leave the MDS bashing to everyone else. Nearly everything he posts is garbage and everyone has already realized that except him. He will just continue to post his self pretentious blowhard views.
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8-01-2007 @ 9:35AM
JMills said...
Wow, everyone already said what I was thinking. Theismann definitely was the one dragging the booth down. I expect the booth to be much better this year without him. Kornheiser wasn't great last year, but he spent half the time calling theismann on his bullshit and that is good enough for me. Kornheiser was nowhere near as bad as Dennis Miller on MNF. Kornheiser should be much better this year with a more than competent analyst in Jaws, I've always loved his analysis on NFL Live.
I'll leave the MDS bashing to everyone else. Nearly everything he posts is garbage and everyone has already realized that except him. He will just continue to post his self pretentious blowhard views.
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8-01-2007 @ 10:34AM
Chuck said...
Get Dick Vermeil on MNF with Jaws and raise the level of commentary 1000%.
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8-01-2007 @ 10:37AM
Dave Sherman said...
If Kornheiser is a sports announcer then I'm a brain surgeon, How about donald duck, he has to be better.
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8-01-2007 @ 11:36AM
Everybody likes Bananas said...
This site makes me wanna puke -- whomever posted this needs to go play with the one-eyed monster for a change...
thank you very much.
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8-01-2007 @ 11:47AM
Everybody likes Bananas said...
Worst sportcasters and Sport Radio:
1- Kornhenrshit : sounds like he be on crack
2- Riggins : sounds drunk and lost he confuses itself
3- I live in New York and from time to time listen to some sports radio people from DC I think they called themselves the "first team of fox" or something...but why they always have to -when making a point say "A"..."B" RIGGINS DOES THAT A LOT TOO....
4- John Thompson: Sounds drunk too can barely enunciate words.
5- Dan "the mule" Patrick
6- and last but not least -- the dumb-dumbs from UNIVISON the soccer commentators...the tall one always making "crap" up and calling players and making knick-names on the go and butchering the spanish language...he should even be on tv he is spanish and can barely speack his "OWN" native language....
Finito, grazie.
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8-04-2007 @ 9:10AM
wahoo said...
I agree with the first 5 posts. Has Mr. Tony ever claimed to be a "sports announcer"? I think not. Imagine how difficult it is to be funny with two other guys doing play-by-play and color during/after each play. I for one am looking forward to the new team with Theisman gone and Jaws in.
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8-13-2007 @ 10:30PM
Gene said...
I stumbled across this article searching for an article on Theismann getting fired. I had to do a doubletake after reading this "article" by Michael David Smith. The only thing he got right was that Theismann was terrible, an obvious truth. Other than that, I couldn't disagree more w/ what Smith was spouting. Who exactly is Smith to call out Kornheiser??? I definitely will not be reading anything else by this Smith, and I surely hope that AOL isn't wasting too much dough paying this clown.
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