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re: Why is the NFL intent on destroying itself?
Posted on 9/27/22 at 8:17 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 9/27/22 at 8:17 am to Darth_Vader
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I know this will sound unbelievable to some, perhaps most here. But there was a time when Monday Night Football was about football and only football.
Cosell and the boys had plenty of celebrity guests.
Burt Reynolds, John Wayne, William Shatner, and Richard Long, the co-star of ABC’s sitcom “Nanny and the Professor” were among many who clogged the booth to promote new movies or shows.
From a 2006 article addressing similar claims of recent celebrity interruptions:
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Cosell and his ABC Sports partners, Frank Gifford and Don Meredith, and subsequent “Monday Night” teams often played host to stars, before and during the game and at halftime.
At ABC, the “Monday Night” booth was every bit as star needy as ESPN’s is now. It is fascinating, then, to hear cries that ESPN’s second-quarter celebrity fun house is a ridiculous distraction from the game or blatant cross-promotion of other parts of the Disney programming complex.
Nothing is new about this. ESPN is deploying the 2006 version.
In earlier days, celebrities talked while the action was ongoing and intruded on Gifford’s play calling.
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Posted on 9/27/22 at 10:50 am to Twenty 49
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Cosell and the boys had plenty of celebrity guests.
Burt Reynolds, John Wayne, William Shatner, and Richard Long, the co-star of ABC’s sitcom “Nanny and the Professor” were among many who clogged the booth to promote new movies or shows.
From a 2006 article addressing similar claims of recent celebrity interruptions:
I remember this game because it was pretty crazy so I just remember details from it. It was in 2000 and Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the booth, during the game, being interviewed.
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The people who complain probably barely even watches football. Like I posted earlier in this thread, I think Jimmy Kimmel absolutely sucks, but I don't care at all if the network he works for interviews him during their highest rated show.
I only care about the game so that's what I pay the most attention to.
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