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Who asked you, Tony Kornheiser??
Oct 16, 2006 | 10:10PM | report this

I'm not sure what the consensus is on Tony Kornheiser in his role as Monday Night Football color man, but let me put in my vote for HE SUCKS. 

Somebody needs to tell him his job as a football announcer is not to give opinions on franchises.  It's not his job as a football announcer to give speeches full of flowery and melodramatic hyperbole.  He's a color commentator -- his job is to be insightful and funny and initiate clever banter with Joe Theismann.  That's it.

The disaster that is Tony Kornheiser reared it's ugly little bald head non-stop in this game:  his constant barrage about what a horrible franchise Arizona is; his calling Arizona a "bad team" SEVERAL times; his tirade about how the city of Phoenix should just "close up the new stadium and call it quits for the year" if they lose this game; even on Arizona's first offensive series, they got a first down and he said they should "just call it good, go home right now, and tell everybody to drive home safe".  I just spent two hours trying to watch a great football game, and instead found myself saying over and over again, "Who asked you, Kornheiser?"

It doesn't matter if everything he said was true -- that's beside the point.  Making inflammatory statements and knee-jerk reactionary comments is his job on PTI, not Monday Night Football.  If they wanted that in the booth, they would get Charles Barkley.  In fact, I'm hoping that Barkley's appearance in the booth in the first half was a message -- maybe it was ESPN saying, "Is it just us, or would Charles Barkley be way more entertaining than this Pez-headed jerk we mistakenly hired?"

Tony Kornheiser is only mildly entertaining on PTI, and he's simply unbearable as a live football commentator.  He's not a live sports announcer, he's a just loud-mouthed New Yorker with a superiority complex.  The color commentator for a football game is supposed to be the guy you wish you were hanging out with watching the game.  He should be that likeable dude who's witty and insightful, not that guy you wish would just shut up and watch the game.  Whatever he is, he is not Monday Night Football material.

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