Jan
5
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with ESPN. For the past two decades it’s been the only channel I really watch. I can watch Sportscenter repeatedly. In the past, ESPN’s Primetime was the greatest thing before DirecTV’s NFL Ticket. However, there are certain ESPN personalities that are just plain awful and should be canned. Here are my top 5 current ESPN personalities that deserve a pink slip:
- (tie)Joe Theismann (Monday Night Football) and Michael Irvin (Football Analyst): These two were exceptional football players, these are two exceptionally terrible football commentators. Theismann continues to contradict himself and is at his best when he doesn’t talk. As for Irvin, when your co-host (Tom Jackson) ridicules you on a regular basis, it’s because you’re not very good.
- Sean Salisbury (Football Analyst): This former backup quarterback delivers “straight talk” about today’s NFL but never delivered on Sundays.
- Tony Kornheiser (Monday Night Football): This is a tough one. When I lived in DC, I enjoyed Kornheiser’s articles in the Washington Post. As part of Pardon the Interruption, he’s cool as ice. As part of Monday Night Football, his trademark sarcastic wit is misplaced.
- Stuart Scott (Sportscenter): At first his gangsta colloquialisms were cool, but after several years of “booyah” among others, they’ve simply lost their luster.