Monday Night Football
Published by punkass marc August 28th, 2006 in Sports for non-idiots4 Observations:
1) Tony Kornheiser — and it pains me to say it — is kicking ass in the booth. Theismann can’t talk very clearly with Brett Favre’s balls in his mouth, but Korny’s keeping Joe’s hyperbole in check while actually offering enjoyable commentary in engaging fashion. I really, really like him as a color guy. He’s rebounded nicely from the “formerly good columnist turned know-nothing who mails it in while openly admitting he barely knows the names of any athletes under 30.”
2) Theismann should be gagged, and not just with Favre’s balls.
3) Favre is D-U-N terrible. And so are the Packers. The old guy tripped twice over his linemen’s feet, lobbed several overthrown balls, and snared one trash-time touchdown in the first half. Get used to it Packer fans: this is your season in a nutshell. The Packers are a 4 win team and best and will battle it out with Tennesee for the #1 pick and the chance to draft Adrian Peterson.
4) Carson Palmer looked like he was in playoff form, just 10 months removed from ACL surgery. At this rate, ACL tears will soon be 1-2 week injuries. Seriousy, remember when it took a year to heal and then another year to round back into shape? Good to see medical advances going farthest where it matters most in the world: millionaires’ knees.
AGREED agreed agreed on all Theismann points. He irritates me to no end.
In fact, last night they spent the whole first half fellating Carson Palmer (who was in fine form, but remember, playing against the PACKERS) and the whole second half fellating Brett Favre.
It’s going to be a long season of MNF. The recent signing of Jeff George gives me hope that Theismann will find a team desperate enough to put him in the lineup and for the sake of all that’s holy, get him out of the booth and shut him the hell up.
Favre is still playing? geez, why not bring back Namath?
(of course, we wont start seeing any of this in the UK for another month or so, *sigh*, so go ahead and tantalise us)