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re: Dennis Miller on MNF
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:01 pm to UnitedFruitCompany
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:01 pm to UnitedFruitCompany
i loved him on MNF - you could tell he just annoyed the shite out of Fouts
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Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:03 pm to Alt26
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Miller's humor is not for everyone as he can definitely come across in a pompous/"I'm smarter than you manner." I doubt the average football fan is going to get a "Flowers for Algernon" reference.
He was best with the quick off the cuff stuff. But when it was obvious that he had some rehearsed "look how smart I am" bit ready to go, sometimes when it didn't even fit the situation, it just wasn't great.
I'm enough of a slacker nerd to get some of his references, but I'm also a football fan and at times thought, ok dude that's enough. Let them talk about the game that's happening right now.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:12 pm to sorantable
Him and Kornhole fought the whole time
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:18 pm to sorantable
Remember when Rush Limbaugh was on there for a short time until he got booted off?
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:41 pm to sorantable
I feel like the problem with Miller was that he wasn't the right fit for the majority of the MNF audience. It's kind of like if the Manningcast was the only way to watch MNF. If it were, America might finally turn on the Mannings.
Personally, I liked his humor and the references were great when they hit.
Personally, I liked his humor and the references were great when they hit.
This post was edited on 9/12/25 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:44 pm to Diseasefreeforall
quote:Cosell was great. His cadence and delivery were spectacular.
And Howard Cosell.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:45 pm to sorantable
It was terrible
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:46 pm to sorantable
He did have some good ones
“I’ve seen women pee standing up with better aim.” (Looking at you Tony Banks)
“I’ve seen women pee standing up with better aim.” (Looking at you Tony Banks)
Posted on 9/12/25 at 3:50 pm to TigerintheNO
I can’t believe that was 2000.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 5:10 pm to sorantable
I didn't like it. Many people were torn in wanting to usher in something a little different. It was an experiment.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 5:11 pm to Thracken13
Rush on Sunday NFL countdown goat
Posted on 9/12/25 at 6:09 pm to sorantable
I've always liked Dennis Miller, whether it was SNL, his HBO show or MNF. Norm Macdonald as a guest on his talk show was always awesome.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 6:45 pm to sorantable
He once was calling a Detroit lions game whose starting cornerbacks were Terry Fair and Todd Lyght and Miller said something like "you know a team's in trouble when their cornerbacks are Fair and Lyght." It was an obvious joke about their names but the stupid Lions fans didn't get the joke and started bombarding ABC with complaints. They thought he was saying their corners sucked. lol
Posted on 9/12/25 at 8:57 pm to Cosmo
Didn’t Rush get canned for saying Donavan McNabb was overrated because he was black? Dennis Miller is different. Don’t dislike him or love him. He wasn’t that bad.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 9:07 pm to Diseasefreeforall
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Over the years MNF has trotted out some of the worst announcers in sports history
Dierdorf was pretty brash...
Don Meredith...his Cowboys unexpectedly got blown out by some poor team (the Cardinals?), and he was unable to comment on the game without displaying bias and trashing the team for running up the score on his old team.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 9:08 pm to BZ504
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Rush
Was not on MNF.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 9:20 pm to Paul Allen
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I really don’t remember much about him being on MNF.
It was claimed that he was mainly just cracking preplanned jokes about the proper way to pronounce players' last names and that he couldn't generate one-liners on the spot to describe a play that had just happened. I liked him a lot though and wish that the network had just shaken off the haters and kept him.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 9:59 pm to TheDude321
No, but he was on some ESPN pregame show.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 10:14 pm to nvasil1
I liked him. He was too smart for the normal idiot watching football. He’s very…erudite.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 10:20 pm to Lou Loomis
Drunk Dandy Don slurring & singing turn out the lights was prime MNF 
You had to watch MNF back then to see the weekend game highlights since there was no ESPN or anywhere else you could see NFL highlights.
You had to watch MNF back then to see the weekend game highlights since there was no ESPN or anywhere else you could see NFL highlights.
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