Is the MNF Broadcast Crew So Bad It Could Hurt the Eagles?

As everyone knows with sports, the harder you root for a team, the more likely they are to win. God given athletic talent can only take you so far, it’s fan energy that puts you over the top. If us fans are lacking energy, that could doom our team.

Sleep in for a 1 o’clock kickoff? That’s a loss. Hear one (or both) of the Barber brothers on the call? It’s over before it started. It’s all about the energy, or lack thereof. That is why I am gravely concerned about the Eagles getting this Monday Night Football broadcast crew tonight. It’s a crew that’s been notoriously bad all year, and now it’s our turn to get stuck with them. Scary hours.

Joe Tessitore is not bad as the ringleader of this crew but everyone else stinks. Jason Witten has been awful. Maybe I should have some sympathy for him, since everyone piles on him every Monday. But, he converted every third down the Cowboys ever had against the Eagles, so I don’t. He stinks. He ruins the game because instead of focusing on the actual gameplay, you’re thinking to yourself, “wait, what did he just say?”. If I’m focused on Jason Witten choking on his tongue instead of the Eagles saving their season, we may lose to Colt McCoy.

Then, there’s the combination of Witten and Booger McFarland. Listening to those two trip over each other is a lot like slow dancing at the middle school dance. It’s painfully awkward, you spend the whole time feeling each other out (like where you should put your hands), it seems like an eternity, then suddenly it’s over. You’ll do it all again at the following dance and it’ll be just as awkward, nothing changes. That’s Monday Night Football now.

Every Monday Night, we as football fans try to gut it out, watching this train wreck in hopes of making it to Bad Beats with Scott Van Pelt. But this week is quite different. We have to sit and focus for three hours, no breaks, on a terrible broadcasting crew with our season hanging in the balance. Consider me concerned.