Bacon Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm SUNSHINE FADES EVEN FURTHERFirst, it was his Monday Night Football gig. Now, Joe Theismann a/k/a Joey Sunshine has suffered yet another professional humiliation. Theismann is no longer a member of ESPN.com's weekly expert picks panel. In his place is Seth Wickersham of ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com. (Wick's far bigger claim to fame is that he is a participant in the PFT Media Fantasy Challenge.) Strangely, the expert picks page has been revised to remove any reference to Theismann, instead using Wickersham's picks from prior weeks in place of the picks that Theismann had made. And thanks to the handful of readers who alerted us to this one, since we don't regularly look at that specific page on the ESPN.com site. (But, given that yours truly outperformed all of them last week by picking 13 games correctly, maybe we should.) We're trying to find out how this happened, and whether it means that Theismann finally has quit or been fired. ESPN spokesman Mac Nwulu told us in a Wednesday e-mail that he'd have some information on Thursday. So don't go anywhere. Even if you have to "go". ESPN has kicked their Skins hatred up a notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 does anybody know WHY he was booted from ESPN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPortJGibbs89 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Damn I feel bad for him, first he is kicked out of the booth and now removed from ESPN what the hell is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOSKINS_08 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 does anybody know WHY he was booted from ESPN? From doing the monday night games? If you're talking about that, he said that they took him off because ESPN wanted a more celebrity sorta broadcast..And when they brought people in the booth, like a celebrity, Theismann said that he wanted to talk football, but they wanted to talk about whats going on now, in the news, not about football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Lloyd Christmas Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 jaws is 10x better than theismann, so i have no problem with that for MNF. but why he was removed from the picks is weird. who really cares though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 From doing the monday night games? If you're talking about that, he said that they took him off because ESPN wanted a more celebrity sorta broadcast..And when they brought people in the booth, like a celebrity, Theismann said that he wanted to talk football, but they wanted to talk about whats going on now, in the news, not about football. Memo to ESPN: We don't care who's on your broadcast team, we just want to know how the game is going. I mean seriously who watches a football game for the celebrities. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMarco Murray 29 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Memo to ESPN: We don't care who's on your broadcast team, we just want to know how the game is going.I mean seriously who watches a football game for the celebrities. :doh: Agreed. Sir Charles Barkely made my monday night ..... right :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Dearest ESPN, MNF on your station sucks. It's rock bands and celebs. We don't care about them. We care about the game. Regards, E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGift Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Joe is gonna replace Sonny or Sam one day IMO... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 From doing the monday night games? If you're talking about that, he said that they took him off because ESPN wanted a more celebrity sorta broadcast..And when they brought people in the booth, like a celebrity, Theismann said that he wanted to talk football, but they wanted to talk about whats going on now, in the news, not about football. Sounds like what ABC did to Senile Frank Gifford after that whole hotel affair thing came out. First they moved him to his own private booth on the other side of the stadium...then they moved him to a booth at a restaurant outside the stadium altogether...and then finally removed him from ABC. ESPN canned him because he had the guts to tell them what he thought, and didn't like the direction ESPN is going in, which is towards entertainment. I'm sure NFL Network will sign him up soon. They're just building their channel with one fired ESPN analyst at a time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Dearest ESPN,MNF on your station sucks. It's rock bands and celebs. We don't care about them. We care about the game. Regards, E PS. Big Mike hates your broadcast too. Biiiiaattcchhh!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 To ESPN: Just give us a a game with 2 decent teams & leave the rest of the stuff out of the booth. One more thing: Do you really need that many people doing a pre-game show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEavyJumbo85 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Joe is gonna replace Sonny or Sam one day IMO... well if sam leaves first, Joe won't be replacing him, mainly because Theismann and Jurgenson are sworn enemies. But I do expect Joe to get that job one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Emrys Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 ESPN: Please remove Kornheiser from the booth, he contributes next to nothing during the game. I'd rather listen to Joe and Paul argue (weren't those the days) than to Tony's lame attempts at being funny. PTI at the half is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegadeTK Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 weak.... im pretty sure joey t led all experts in week 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRAB Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 MNF is just horrible now. I can't stand Korny and the interviews during the game make me want to scream "Pay attention to what's going on in the damn game!" I nearly kicked my TV when they had Barkley on there. Hell, even my wife said, "they're not paying a lot of attention to the game are they?" Jaws is much better than Joey T... but for God's sake, please talk football. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt'n Obvious Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 MNF is just horrible now. I can't stand Korny and the interviews during the game make me want to scream "Pay attention to what's going on in the damn game!"I nearly kicked my TV when they had Barkley on there. Hell, even my wife said, "they're not paying a lot of attention to the game are they?" Jaws is much better than Joey T... but for God's sake, please talk football. :doh: ESPN doesn't care about the game anymore. Its all about Hollywood celebrity entertainment BS. :logo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoDakMan Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Keep Jaws, boot the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OWUeagleMD Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 I'm with everyone on hating the ESPN MNF broadcast. Too many commercials, too many celebretiy interruptions, too little footbal talk. What I don't understand is how anyone could defend Joe Theisman. He may have known that ESPN was going in the wrong direction, but he certainly wasn't part of solving the problem. He has never provided a single perspective that wasn't blatantly obvious to anyone who has ever watched football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan2k Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 god i hated JOEY T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doncherry Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 he was a good QB, but I found him absoloutely unlistenable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiro Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 In all honesty, I really didn't like Joey T in the booth. I don't think he really meshed well with the crew on the new MNF, which is awful now. But I don't think he compares to Tony K for being the most annoying person on MNF. God that guy's soooooo freakin annoying. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
method man Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 well if sam leaves first, Joe won't be replacing him, mainly because Theismann and Jurgenson are sworn enemies. But I do expect Joe to get that job one day. lol jon jansen will be there too. from sonny and sam to joe and jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsFTW Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 ESPN is owned by ****ing Disney now. MNF is literally a Mickey Mouse operation these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsand521 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 does anybody know WHY he was booted from ESPN? Cuz he was sending text pics of his winky to the female staff. Wait a minute, that wasn't him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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