ESPN has decided to relieve Michelle Tafoya and Suzy Kolber of their sideline reporting duties for their Monday Night Football NFL broadcasts. Mostly because nobody cared what they had to say. In case you forgot (lucky you), Tafoya and Kolber are the ones that interupted the game to either A) have a pointless interview with someone, maybe an ex-player, someone's mom in the stands, the mascot; people that don't matter. Or b) give a pointless report on some player that can either wait until halftime or, if it was important enough, have the play-by-play guy do it.
Speaking of announcers, they're too many. Two's enough. I mean, ading Kornheiser wasn't really necessary, and, although he's great on PTI and in the paper, he's pretty bad at broadcasts. This also becomes ridiculous when they have a guest up into the booth (Don Shula anyone?) and you're forced to watch 4 old men cramped into a booth rather than a replay of something you might've missed on the last play or the players seeting up for the next. It also doesn't help when you have the old fart Shula up there openly rooting for one team and dragging the rest of the braodcast with him. It's not asking much, just don't openly root for one team, you damn fossil.
Back to Kolber/Tafoya. They're departure is a welcome change to part of ESPN's audience, you know, people that like football. Not that girl in a random Brady jersey screaming "Get Him!" 30 times on the same play. Instead, we might get a chance to see a quick highlight of another game going on, or maybe watching a team actually break the huddle for once. Seriously, you neve see it any more; you're lucky if you even catch the snap of the ball.
In all honestly, the most interesting event to happen during the crap that happens on the sideline is drunk Broadway Joe telling Suzy "I wanna kiss you." While entertaining, it doesn't justify me missing the game. Plus, it would be funnier if he said it to Joe Theissman.
