Monday Night Football.
It’s a tradition unlike any other.
Last year people didn’t like the Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten, and Booger McFarland trio calling the games. Witten un-retired to play a 16th year of football, so this season the crew is going to be Tessitore, McFarland, and Lisa Salters on the sidelines. The Booger-mobile was also sent to the junkyard.
I personally have no real opinion on that trio of personalities, but I really like the secondary crew that will work the season-opening double-header on September 9th.
Play-by-play voice Steve Levy, analysts Brian Griese and Louis Riddick and reporter Laura Rutledge will call the Denver Broncos-Oakland Raiders game on ESPN as part of the opening-night doubleheader to kick off Monday Night Football’s 50th season on September 9 at 10:15 p.m. ET / 7:15 p.m. PT.
This AFC West matchup will follow Houston Texans-New Orleans Saints (7 p.m. ET), which will feature the debut of ESPN’s new MNF commentator team: Joe Tessitore, Booger McFarland and Lisa Salters.
Levy is a veteran and knows what he’s doing. Griese I’ve always thought does a good job in the booth. He actually did the second MNF game last year with Beth Mowins, if you recall. Rutledge has experience as a sideline reporter dating back to 2014 and Riddick, a Quakertown native and former Eagles front office member, I think is one of the best football minds on the network. I’m really interested to see how he does calling Monday Night Football.
Honestly, gotta say, I think that secondary crew is better than the primary crew, but we’ll see how Booger does without Jason Witten in the picture.
🏈 @LRiddickESPN talks about playing for the @Raiders against the @Broncos and what it means to him to call this rivalry game on #MNF.
On Sept. 9, he will be teamed with @espnSteveLevy, @briangriese & @LauraRutledge.https://t.co/lMLXFvkdIu pic.twitter.com/Aswyd2Xbc4
— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) May 15, 2019
I, too, cannot wait for it.
Let’s play football.
9 Comments
Yeah but Riddick went to Pitt so he eats shit
this is true
i’m usually not a fan of more than 2 people in the booth, but Levy, Griese and Riddick is pretty solid i’ll admit. Tessitore is awful, he sucks at calling the boxing matches on ESPN as well. This guy was doing the mid-week MAC games with Rod Gilmore not long ago and all of a sudden he’s all over the place.
Laura Rutledge is a babe
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Anyone else hate Danny Green’s face and haircut?
I’m going to jail, please save me. #ComeyIsland
I’m seeing the media pumping out cover up articles left and right.
They’re saying we’ve done enough investigations, we should move on.
Barr will be a heat seeking missile.
It’s going to go all the way up to the top, yep, that means barry
Any details on Kev’s firing from CH 3?
Riddick is overrated. Did you watch him on the draft? He loved every single pick and went on and on about toughness like he was just begging to have someone tackle him on live tv.