Why stick with MNF?
Why stick with Monday Night Football? I’d like to think I got OK, and I got better. You try to get better. And look – I’m a newspaper guy. And almost everyone who gets hired for a job like this is a former athlete or coach. Jocks of one stripe or another. You can’t say no if you’re a newspaper guy. I’m not the Red Cross and trying to sound selfless here – I did it for vanity reasons. Somebody asked me and I couldn’t say no. It’s Monday Night Football. But you also like to think, ‘if I’m good, maybe the next guy would be somebody like me.’ Maybe you’re next. Maybe Cheeseboy. Look at Wilbon on the NBA. What is it that catapulted me to this? You’d be crazy not to say PTI. Well if you want the person you had at PTI, and you want to know why that hasn’t happened, well … my great fantasy is that if you want PTI in the booth, then put me and Wilbon in there together. Tell me why that’s a bad idea. If you say these two guys together on the show seem to have magic … why wouldn’t you try to do t
