Somebody Might Want To Tell Kornheiser This About Football on TV. Can (1 Viewer)

Tony. You're working for Monday Night Football. It's a TV show. If you start saying the game is over people turn off their TV's. I'm posting now with 10 minutes left in the game but Tony has been saying this since before it was even dark outside. The producer needs to sneak up in the booth and wack the guy in the head.

Rookie broadcasters. At least he doesn't talk over the refs like Miller did.

I was gonna start a thread on it too. He really is hurting himself. Theismann tried to cover it up quickly. I can hear the advertisers calling ESPN/ABC tomorrow..."He said the game was over!!! We pay a lot of $$$ for those adds in the 4th quarter!"

What the heck is Green Bay running the ball for, bringing the end of this drive down to 6 minutes? They're down by 3 TD's but each of those runs ran a ton of time. Maybe they're just trying to get Morency familiar with the offense but come on..... Not time to bag it in yet........

Wow, Garcia in........

He was simply telling it like it was. Some people find honestly refreshing. Off the subject: shouldn't it be considered bad form to quote yourself in your signature?

covered this in the game thread, captain honda

Lauryn Hill said:

covered this in the game thread, captain honda

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and in the kornheiser thread, admiral obvious.

My Hope Street Alias said:

He was simply telling it like it was. Some people find honestly refreshing. Off the subject: shouldn't it be considered bad form to quote yourself in your signature?

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I know he was but I'm sure his producers will learn him of this real quick. And on the second thing. Normally yes but that line was just too perfect. Kind of like the catcher telling you the next pitch was going to be a fastball. "Hey! Don't you stand here and look at that ball! I give you a gift and you stand here and show me up? Get out of here! Run!" Larouche, "Man! It was like he knew I was going to throw a fastball!" It was that good.

Marc Levin said:

Lauryn Hill said:

covered this in the game thread, captain honda

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and in the kornheiser thread, admiral obvious.

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sorry, didn't read your Kornhole thread as it said it was about fantasy football and I find I can't follow a game and read a 14 page thread at the same time.......I read your Kornhole thread afterwards though...... put in the link to this thread bc I thought it was funny we both said the same thing....jeez.... take it easy guys........

Lauryn Hill said:

covered this in the game thread, captain honda

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Who is Tony Kornheiser?Is this jeopardy?Maybe you'd like it better if I phrased it like that for you? Thought so.

I may be in the minority, but I like him. He will make some rookie mistakes, but I think he becomes solid in the booth in time.

I think he's passable but not exciting. I was just commenting on him killing any kind of ratings the game could have had by blurting out the game was over. It doesn't matter if it's 42 -0 , if you're a TV network you want your announcers talking about the game in 1896 when Georgia tech came back from 42 down and upset Yale.

One thing that bothers me a bit though is he just doesn't seem like an extremely knowledgeable football guy. Then again, he doesn't seem to be that knowleadgeable about any one particular sport either, he's a journalist by profession. You kind of think he's supposed to describe the landscape and help illuminate you on the stories withing the game but honestly if you've been keeping up with sports any at all in the past week he's not telling you anything new.

To me, it's two boring guys (Tirico and Kornhesier) and a hamstrung, meathead jock (Theismann). They've managed to keep Theismann fairly well maintained which is important if I'm going to watch the broadcast because he was seriously obnoxious with his crew last year.

Overall, I give MNF a so far with the positive comment that at east it's not horrendous like the Sunday Night crew from last year (Theismann, McGuire, obnoxious play by play guy).

Englishteacher said:

I was just commenting on him killing any kind of ratings the game could have had by blurting out the game was over. .

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Killing ratings? Do you think people didn't already realize the game was over and then turned it off because Kornheiser told them it was? The only people watching were FF players and diehard Philly and GB fans. Granted, I agree that he shouldn't blurt it out for his own sake but I doubt that it hurt any ratings (I could be giving the viewing public too much credit here though).

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Englishteacher said:

I was just commenting on him killing any kind of ratings the game could have had by blurting out the game was over. .

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Killing ratings? Do you think people didn't already realize the game was over and then turned it off because Kornheiser told them it was? The only people watching were FF players and diehard Philly and GB fans. Granted, I agree that he shouldn't blurt it out for his own sake but I doubt that it hurt any ratings (I could be giving the viewing public too much credit here though).

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there's always the chance someone is barely hanging on, just in a daze watching the game, hear him say that and say "yeah, no ####, what the hell am i watching this blowout for?" and <click>.

I like him. He is a hell of lot more entertaing than Theisman.

My Hope Street Alias said:

He was simply telling it like it was. Some people find honestly refreshing. Off the subject: shouldn't it be considered bad form to quote yourself in your signature?

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Honesty? Someone needs to be honest with him and tell him that comb over really isn't working. He has like 4 strands of hair superglued horozontally to the top of his scalp. Just shave it man. You lost. It's over.

Go figure. A sportscaster actually says something real and gets lambasted for it. Ha. That was about the ONLY thing that didnt bother me about last nights crew.

All the Mcnabb and Favre love was awful.

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Englishteacher said:

I was just commenting on him killing any kind of ratings the game could have had by blurting out the game was over. .

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Killing ratings? Do you think people didn't already realize the game was over and then turned it off because Kornheiser told them it was? The only people watching were FF players and diehard Philly and GB fans. Granted, I agree that he shouldn't blurt it out for his own sake but I doubt that it hurt any ratings (I could be giving the viewing public too much credit here though).

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90% of the viewing public can figure out for themselves when it's over. But the 10% that are gullible enough to have Kornheiser decide for them when the game is over are the same ones gullible enough to buy stuff just because they saw a commercial on MNF.

Tyrion said:

Honesty? Someone needs to be honest with him and tell him that comb over really isn't working. He has like 4 strands of hair superglued horozontally to the top of his scalp. Just shave it man. You lost. It's over.

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The Male Pattern Baldness Army has conquered another scalp, Tony. Haul down your flag and discuss terms of surrender. Seriously.

Englishteacher said:

Tony. You're working for Monday Night Football. It's a TV show. If you start saying the game is over people turn off their TV's. I'm posting now with 10 minutes left in the game but Tony has been saying this since before it was even dark outside. The producer needs to sneak up in the booth and wack the guy in the head.

Rookie broadcasters. At least he doesn't talk over the refs like Miller did.

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If the producer wacks him in the head then his one single hair that's been wrapped around several times would become unraveled, prompting some wiseass, even more stupid response from Joe Theisman, which would probably infuriate fans even more...