ESPN tabs Greenberg, Golic to head second MNF team

• tziller

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  I was actually looking forward to watching that Cards-Niners game. Now, I look forward to watching that Cards-Niners game on mute.

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• Redsauce

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  Thus insuring that I will never watch MNF again.

  Posted 6/20/2007 [reply] [flag]

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Mike, Mike and Mike.
Published 6/20/2007 by Paulsen at Sports Media Watch
For the second straight year, ESPN will air a Monday Night Football doubleheader to kick off the NFL season. Last year, the team broadcasting the late game was hailed by bloggers and media analysts as one of the best broadcast teams on television -- despite the fact that they only worked one game together. The team of Brad Nessler , Ron Jaworski and Dick Vermeil was a one-hit wonder. And while Jaworski is moving onto the main Monday Night Football team, ESPN is going in a different direction for its back-up team this year. Lead Arena Football League broadcast team Mike Greenberg ...

ESPN Tabs Mike and Mike for Second MNF Team
Published 6/20/2007 by Aaron Schatz at Football Outsiders
ESPN Tabs Mike and Mike for Second MNF Team According to USA Today , ESPN Radio morning show hosts Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic will be the second MNF team calling the night game for the opening week doubleheader. This spanks of ESPN self-promotion and will be criticized in a lot of places, but to anyone who criticizes this move, I ask a question: Have you actually heard Mike and Mike do a football game? Out of curiosity, I tuned into a couple of the Arena football games they called for the Worldwide Leader and they were SHOCKINGLY good. They don t wander off into other topics all the time which makes sense, because they have four hours every morning together to wander off into other topics. Greenberg calls very crisp play-by-play. It was probably related somewhat to the fact that ESPN has great access now that they co-own Arena, but Golic did a great job of predicting play calls. He was con ...

Mike & Mike to join Mike Ditka on Monday Night Football
Published 6/20/2007 at FanIQ Blog
... But can it work in the Monday Night Football booth? We know Mike Golic thinks he should be there instead of Kornheiser, and Greenberg hasn't been afraid to say he'd love to be in the booth. I never took him seriously. Mike McCarthy of USA Today says it could actually be the team that replaces the current lineup: ...

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Published 6/20/2007 at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... . • USA TODAY tells us ESPN's 'Monday Night Football' B-Team crew will be Mike 'n' Mike 'n' Mike . —

ESPN Monday Night Football Opener: Mike Greenberg, Mike Golic, Mike Ditka
Published 6/20/2007 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
ESPN's Monday Night Football will open with a doubleheader on Sept. 10, with the second game, Cardinals-49ers, kicking off at 10:15 p.m. Eastern. Today the Worldwide Leader has unveiled its announcing B team for the second game : Mike Greenberg on play-by-play and Mike Golic and Mike Ditka on commentary. Bonnie Bernstein will be the sideline reporter. Greenberg and Golic work together on ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning, and they've called Arena Football games together. It's a little surprising that ESPN is adding Ditka to the mix, but three-man booths are the norm on Monday Night Football. The Monday Night Football A team consists of Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and Tony Kornheiser, with Jaworski replacing Joe Theismann from last year's team. Just wondering: Did ESPN offer Theismann the opportunity to fill in for one game?

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Published 6/20/2007 at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... : • USA TODAY informs us that ESPN's B-Crew for 'Monday Night Football' will be Mike 'n' Mike 'n' Mike (and Bonnie) . —

How to Make the 49er-Cards Matchup More Gay
Published 6/20/2007 by albaNY Hawker at 12 Seahawks Street
... As if the second-feature of the opening Monday Night Football matchup wasn't gay enough, pitting metrosexual Matt Lineart against gender-confused Alex Smith, ESPN has decided to gay-it-up a little more by choosing to put Mike Greenberg in the booth. ...

Monday Night Football Names a New JV Team
Published 6/20/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Wow. How the heck did this happen? In another scoop handed to USA Today simply because it’s the biggest newspaper in the country, the McPaper tells us that the ESPN radio tandem of Mike & Mike has been tabbed as the backup MNF team. ...

Morning Wood 6.20.07
Published 6/20/2007 by Ted at priceabovebiproberts
... That second Monday Night Football game of Week 1 - Cardinals vs. 49ers in the battle of what could have been for Matt Leinart - will be called by Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg, and Mike Ditka, with Bonnie Bernstein on the field, so says USA Today. I wanted Nessler real bad. ...

...and you thought MNF sucked last year
Published 6/20/2007 by Unsilent Majority at Kissing Suzy Kolber
... ESPN tabs Greenberg, Golic to head second MNF team

Mike And Mike Will Soon Broadcast You Eating Toast: Mike And Mike Are Everywhere You Look
Published 6/20/2007 at Deadspin
... . That means they're going to be announcing that 49ers-Buzzsaw game that starts at 10:15 ET opening Monday night. They're gonna team up with Mike Ditka. ...

Thursday a.m.: Giants’ march toward history, another update
Published 6/21/2007 by John Ryan at Morning Buzz
... I don t know why I always think they were taking a shot at him with Sacha Baron Cohen s flamboyant Euro driver in Talladega Nights. ESPN tabs Mike & Mike (and Mike Ditka) for 49ers-Cardinals back end of opening Monday night doubleheader. They were just going to call Brad Nessler and Dick Vermeil. But those two are too competent, and they don t afford the possibility of shameless self-promotion. In other news, Greenberg milked a cow this morning. Irony in the steroid era: As the Rangers owner bemoans ...