Tess and Booger are out after two years calling Monday Night Football.

Richard Deitsch first reported the news on Saturday night, with Andrew Marchand at the New York Post following up with this:

ESPN has informed Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland they are out of the “Monday Night Football” booth, sources confirmed.

Steve Levy on play-by-play and analysts Dan Orlovsky, Louis Riddick and/or Brian Griese remain the favorites as the replacements, which The Post first reported early last month.

ESPN has also thought about Kurt Warner and Nate Burleson. ESPN’s lead college team, Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit, remain a possibility.

Riddick is fantastic, absolutely knows his stuff. Orlovsky would also do a nice job, and bring an inherent pro-Eagles and pro-Carson Wentz bias with him. You might remember they had a Levy/Riddick/Griese/Laura Rutledge crew working a Monday night game last year when they kicked off the season with a double header. That secondary crew was probably better than the primary crew.

The Booger and Tess thing seemed ill-fated even after Jason Witten’s departure and NFL return. McFarland was very good at stating the obvious and critics would say he was out of his depth and/or didn’t bring very much to the broadcast.

Tessitore is an interesting case. He had some strange individual moments, like the “Eat that W” line from the Eagles/Giants overtime game, but he was an otherwise experienced broadcaster who seemed to get lumped in with Booger and Witten and trashed by proxy. Guilty by association? Maybe. Perhaps he was trying a bit too hard as he attempted to overcompensate for the shortcomings of the other two guys. If you go back and listen to some of Tessitore’s college football calls prior to Monday Night Football, they really weren’t bad at all. I’d be interested in seeing how he’d do with somebody like Tony Romo or Charles Davis in the booth with him, but that’s obviously not gonna happen now.