Jaworski off Monday Night Football in new ESPN role
Former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski has signed a five-year extension with ESPN for an expanded multiplatform NFL analyst role, but will no longer be a part of the broadcast booth for "Monday Night Football," ESPN announced.
Jaworski off Monday Night Football in new ESPN role
Daily News staff
Former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski has signed a five-year extension with ESPN for an expanded multiplatform NFL analyst role, but will no longer be a part of the broadcast booth for "Monday Night Football," ESPN announced.
His new role will include appearances on Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, NFL Matchup, NFL-branded specials, Mike & Mike in the Morning, Pardon the Interruption, and other platforms and shows throughout the year. The network said Jaworski will have a "greater year-round presence on ESPN" in his new role. Jaworski also will appear on SportsCenter regularly, primarily Sundays and Monday.
Monday Night Football will have a new two-person commentator team for the first time during the 2012 NFL season with Mike Tirico and analyst Jon Gruden.
“I am grateful for having the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of working on Monday Night Football the past five seasons with Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden and so many other talented people behind the scenes who make the show so great, and I look forward to bringing my passion and knowledge of the game to more fans in more places than ever before on any and all football topics,” Jaworski said in a statement.
“I thank Ron for the great contributions he has made to Monday Night Football and look forward to the many ways he will enhance our studio presentation from our NFL-branded shows to SportsCenter,” said ESPN President John Skipper. “With two strong analysts in Ron and Jon, these moves will better utilize their strengths and benefit our entire NFL presentation.”
The Tirico-Gruden pairing marks just the sixth time in MNF’s 42-year history that sports television’s signature series will feature a two-person commentator team. In addition, this will be the first time in 15 years that ESPN has used a two-person lead team on its NFL game coverage. The last was Mike Patrick and Joe Theismann who called Sunday Night Football games together from 1988-1997.
As someone said above Tirico is not compelling. Gruden is too over the top and was constantly inciting Jaws into hyperbole. The two were chewing on each other so much is was obscene. But alone Jaws is surely the best of the three. I guess I'm the only guy who ever liked Joe Theisman.— izzylangfan- eldia, thank you for your posts as they give me the laughter i need each day. You're pulling a reverse Stephen Colbert, arent you? I really dont care who the announcers are- who can stay up that late to watch and function the next day?. If a MNF matchup is actually any good, i dvr it and speed through it the next morning and dont even hear what the announcers are saying. the broadcasts are better that way anyway.— jim715
- Gruden is absolutely terrible on the mike - someone please give him 5 yrs/ $25M so I don't have to listen to him anymore. Jaworski is much better re: analalytic, unbiased commentary. Guess I won't be watching much MNF anymore.— vdstrading
- No, I liked Joe Theisman, also. Even if he made mistakes his voice wasn't grating on me. Gruden climbs through the TV.— Drew777
- mjc1 & jim715 comments sponsored and paid for by a billionaire and global corporation near you.— Johnnydeagle
- Good Riddance! JAws is an idiot and adds nothing to the booth. His Ego must have clashed with Gruden's Ego.— sjrgm73
- So I guess Johnnydeagle is Jon Stewart.— operagost
- Eldia go drink your kool aid and wait for your check you whiney *sshole. I felt bad for Jaws. He couldn't get a word in edgewise over Gruden these past 2 years. At least at his new venue(s), he will get to impart a little bit of what he knows.— cuyatm
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- Announcers these days are like TV antennas, they are still around but serve no purpose. If you are at a bar you never hear them. If you are home with a crowd, or with the TV volume on low, you never hear them. Personally if I am not at the bar I turn on my iPod, turn down the TV and enjoy not having to hear Joe Buck, Mike Tirico, or Tom McCarthy as they try to fit in as much of their notes about nothing important during the telecast.....— phillysportguy
- Jaws! The Philadelphia Soul need you fulltime. They need to win another AFL Championship for Philly since the Eagles can't even win a simple Super Bowl! GO SOOOOOOOOOOOUL!— Panthro2011
- 3 men in the booth is one too many - in any sport. The Flyers should take notice to this and put Coatsey out to pasture. They are fine with just Jim Jackson and Keith Jones or Bill Clement.— BobbyD
- Shame ESPN let Chuckie force out Jaworski; Chuckie is overbearing but was threatened with another voice in the booth. Tirico is no threat to anyone or anything.— JBinPA
