Say it Ain't So Joe?

ESPN has thankfully fired Joe Theisman from the Monday Night Football booth. Officially, he is looking at other opportunities at the network. Let me just say it, I really hate Theisman, he is a self-righteous, utterly incapable of intelligent analysis and a long-winded blow hard. Concise is not in his dictionary.

What I find more interesting, is that his replacement, Ron Jaworski, is a good friend of Tony Kornheiser. While Kornheiser is tolerable on PTI, he is pretty poor in the booth. He doesn't have enough confidence to speak about the x's and o's, so he makes silly human interest comments. I remember him rambling on and on about how tough Rex Grossman was to take the criticism and how much he liked him. That's great Tony, what about his play on the field? Shouldn't you be speaking about that? Jaws addition and Joe's termination means that Kornheiser has growing influence at Monday Night. I was hoping that he would be fired as well.

Bottom line, if Theisman is on the ESPN less, that is a net gain. I suppose we will have live with Kornheiser for at least another year.