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Al Michaels a No-Go for MNF Next Season

Published on February 08, 2006 | Email this article

When Monday Night Football airs on ESPN next fall, Al Michaels won’t be in attendance in the broadcasting booth, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Instead, Tony Kornheiser, Mike Tirico, and Joe Theismann will announce the game. Al Michaels had initially been announced as part of the team, but according to John Skipper, ESPN executive vp, Michaels had said that he was not comfortable with the direction of the show, so ESPN “made the decision to move on.”

Tirico has been anchor of SportsCenter and has hosted ESPN’s Monday Night countdown show since 1991.
Kornheiser, a sports writer for the Washington Post and host of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, is an interesting move, according to Newsweek. “It will be likened to ABC using comedian Dennis Miller several years ago, an intriguing experiment that ultimately failed,” writes Neil Best.

Michaels will reportedly join John Madden on NBC’s NFL Sunday broadcasts next year.

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