ESPN Has Ruined Monday Night Football

Looking back on this season's coverage of Monday Night Football, I am saddened to report that ESPN did a terrible job.

While the quality of MNF has deteriorated since the days of Dandy Don and Howard Cosell, the latest crew of announcers has made it impossible to follow the game. Instead of a play-by-play announcer and a color man, ESPN has hired a crew intent on discussing everything but the game at hand.

Running a current events topic into the ground, conducting long-winded interviews in the booth and doing sideline interviews while the game is in progress demonstrate ESPN's philosophy that MNF is is little more than background noise for their latest variation of Sports Center.

The NFL powers should either force ESPN to cover the game like it was the main event, of find another network.