WisPolitics Budget Blog

Monday Night Football has gone the way that network news will soon follow - to cable.

After 60 Minutes, no other program has aired longer than MNF. And like 60 Minutes, no other program has aged as poorly as MNF. Would someone at Disney, owners of both ABC and ESPN, please drive John Madden and his bus – BOOM – into the ocean?

Some might say MNF football’s decline began when ex-Maryland Terp QB Boomer Esiason was replaced in the booth by Saturday Night Live Weekend Update’s Dennis Miller.

Myself, I say MNF was hijacked by Hank Williams Jr., and any of the jiggling, giggling T & A bimbos that twirled their hair and wet their lips as they talked at the camera about game-time weather conditions from the teams’ bench areas.

And Hank? You sell-out.

As for Disney, if you plan to get back to the game, hire ex-Bengal and HBO’s Cris Collinsworth for the booth. If you must, team Collinsworth with Wisconsin’s own Frank Caliendo (MAD TV). His impersonation of John Madden is more insightful than the real John Madden.