CaliforniaCheez
08-08-2006, 01:39 PM
Read about the disaster ESPN is creating of Monday Night games.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701099.html
Howard Cosell made fun of Frank Gifford sitting in his hotel room using index cards of players names and numbers memorizing them. He said it only confused Frank and people don't care about no names.
Chapter 6 of I Never Played the Game Howard Cosell stated "Working with ex-jocks, I had to pick my spots...and rescue the viewers from being bored to tears with an endless stream of nonsenical football jargon and insipid drivel about the 4-3 defense."
"If I had had only one jock to cope with I could've changed the nature of the telecasts, elevating them by providing more information beyond what was happing on the field, more entertaining journalism, and a more entertaining approach to the games. Why not? Who's kidding whom? Who the hell made Monday Night Football unlike any other sports program on the air? If you want the plain truth I did."
"I realized early on that it was up to me to interact with the millions of women and casual fans who were tuning in and get a reaction out of them...The game became less important than the act of watching it on television."
Tony Kornheiser is going to be deliberately ignorant of football and attempt to be entertaining. I think he holds the same contempt of football that Howard Cosell posessed.
I think he will be a disaster. I believe if the game is good, more people will watch. If it is a bad game, fewer people will watch. The guys in the booth cannot add audience but they can lose it.
With the Mickey Mouse company putting Kornheiser on their ESPN version of MNF, I will likely be doing what I did when Howard was on the air.
Turn the sound down on the television and turn on the radio.
PS. I got Howard's book at a used book sale for a quarter and none of that quarter went to Howard's estate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701099.html
Howard Cosell made fun of Frank Gifford sitting in his hotel room using index cards of players names and numbers memorizing them. He said it only confused Frank and people don't care about no names.
Chapter 6 of I Never Played the Game Howard Cosell stated "Working with ex-jocks, I had to pick my spots...and rescue the viewers from being bored to tears with an endless stream of nonsenical football jargon and insipid drivel about the 4-3 defense."
"If I had had only one jock to cope with I could've changed the nature of the telecasts, elevating them by providing more information beyond what was happing on the field, more entertaining journalism, and a more entertaining approach to the games. Why not? Who's kidding whom? Who the hell made Monday Night Football unlike any other sports program on the air? If you want the plain truth I did."
"I realized early on that it was up to me to interact with the millions of women and casual fans who were tuning in and get a reaction out of them...The game became less important than the act of watching it on television."
Tony Kornheiser is going to be deliberately ignorant of football and attempt to be entertaining. I think he holds the same contempt of football that Howard Cosell posessed.
I think he will be a disaster. I believe if the game is good, more people will watch. If it is a bad game, fewer people will watch. The guys in the booth cannot add audience but they can lose it.
With the Mickey Mouse company putting Kornheiser on their ESPN version of MNF, I will likely be doing what I did when Howard was on the air.
Turn the sound down on the television and turn on the radio.
PS. I got Howard's book at a used book sale for a quarter and none of that quarter went to Howard's estate.