Tonight, as most sports fans already know, the Vikings and Raiders play on the first (albeit preseason) broadcast of Monday Night Football on ESPN. After decades of ABC holding the rights to (and making a mint off of) the Monday night game, it is ESPN's turn.
Yawn. Right?
It's a preseason game between two teams who didn't do all that well last year, and aren't expected to do all that well this year.
But there's another story here -- a big one ... at least to me.
Tonight, Tony Kornheiser debuts as the third man in the Monday Night Football booth.
For those who have no clue about who TK is (also known as Mr. Tony to his devoted radio listeners), he is the host of ESPN's show Pardon the Interruption. But for me, and many others in the DC area, Tony is a columnist of much biting wit, whether he is commenting on sports, or on the vagaries of life in general. C'mon, be honest, how many sportswriters/columnists can you think of that moved into doing columns for the Style section of their newspapers and were good enough to have those columns collected into books?
I can think of one: Tony Kornheiser.
As Mr. Tony has said (on other topics) numerous times, "That's it. That's the list."
So I'm rooting for him, I think.
He thinks he's going to be terrible. Others think he may be brilliant.
I'm pretty sure I want him to be brilliant.
But if he's brilliant, he'll be missing even more broadcasts of my beloved PTI and, even worse, he'll NEVER come back to his radio show here in DC.
One way or another, it should be a fun ride.
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