His speech was so strange and stilted that its defining characteristic is not even his accent-I expected Twitter to break out in xenophobic cacophony after his sideline hit, but more people assumed he was an overmatched high schooler than a foreigner. Here was his first-and last-report.ĭipp spoke like he was buffering. I don’t think he’d ever been asked to participate in an English broadcast before Monday night. The highlight of his evening was a quote after Chargers kicker Younghoe Koo had a potential game-tying field goal blocked: “Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the fire hydrant.”īut the star of the show was sideline reporter Sergio Dipp, a Mexican journalist who has mainly been a part of ESPN’s Spanish-language broadcasts, including many NFL shows. (I think that was a joke.) And for a coach of 30-plus years, he didn’t really provide much insight. He’s known for his sense of humor, but had few jokes, except when he compared Trevor Siemian to Michael Vick. He’s normally boisterous, but Monday night he was extremely quiet, to the point where some thought his microphone settings were off. The personality that’s made him one of America’s most famous coaches didn’t show through. Coaching had been his only job since graduating college in 1986 announcing an NFL game might not be a feat-er, accomplishment-he’s ready for yet. The color commentator for the second game was former Bills and Jets coach Rex Ryan. Anyway, they’d better get used to it- Mowins will also be calling games for CBS this season. Those complaining about Mowins should be tied down and forced to listen to Berman’s calls of previous Monday Night Football games at high volume. Some men, predictably, become enraged whenever she announces games, claiming she isn’t knowledgeable, or that her voice is off-putting. Mowins has done a great job calling football for ESPN since being foisted week-after-week on the worst noon Big Ten game available. The play-by-play commentator was Beth Mowins, the first woman to call an NFL game in 30 years. I’m shuddering.įor Monday night’s game between the Chargers and Broncos, ESPN created a conventional booth from unconventional parts. From 2012 until last year, Chris Berman did play-by-play for the game, making for easily the least enjoyable broadcast of the season each year. From 2007 to 2009, Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic did color commentary, turning the game into a worse version of the duo’s radio show with a football game in the middle. After that, ESPN generally tried to shoehorn personalities from its other NFL properties into a makeshift broadcast crew. The only time the network has tried to create a conventional booth was the first time it broadcast a doubleheader, in 2006, when Brad Nessler, Dick Vermeil, and Ron Jaworski called a game, a trio some football heads still reminisce about. The company has only one NFL broadcast crew, and has never quite figured out how to staff its second game. Because there’s no Monday Night Football in the final week of the NFL season, ESPN gets to broadcast two games in the season’s first week, an awkward doubleheader the network has never really known what to do with.
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