Booger Mcfarland Monday Night Football
- Monday might have been Drew Brees’ night, but Booger McFarland’s animation is what had Twitter talking. While illustrating the Colts’ defense during a Saints drive to the end zone, McFarland.
- While Booger McFarland is best known for his role as an analyst on ESPN's Monday Night Football, the broadcaster had quite the NFL career in the past, having starred as a defensive tackle for nine years. Many NFL fans aren't crazy about Booger's takes on the air (or his NSFW accidental drawings), but the Super.
In news that seemed to surprise practically no one, Booger McFarland will reportedly no longer be in the analyst’s chair — which use to be on the Booger Mobile not so long ago — for ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
Booger McFarland is in the booth this year for the 'Monday Night Football' broadcast, and he's getting the Jason Witten treatment from fans at home. NFL 2021 NFL Mock Draft.
He, along with play-by-play man Joe Tessitore will be doing other stuff for ESPN, per The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch, and although it will be just as important to replace Tessitore, let’s focus on who will replace the much-criticized and meme’d McFarland.
The first name would have been Peyton Manning, but he reportedly declined. So let’s look at some other personalities who have been thrown around and rank them:
7. Kirk Herbstreit
Look: I like Herbstreit a lot. It’s just that I’d rather he and Chris Fowler stay with college — the New York Post is reporting ESPN has thought about using them. So this ranking is more about my feelings about that idea than rating Herbstreit as an analyst — if he wasn’t so good on college games, he’d be way higher up.
6. Brian Griese
He’s fine. But my hope for the MNF hire is an attempt to use someone who played the game more recently (yes, this is total Tony Romo bias talking here).
5. Dan Orlovsky
He’s very good on the air, particularly on Get Up. And if you want someone to be Romo-esque, he could be your guy.
4. Louis Riddick
I’m a fan of his work on the air, but does it translate to the booth? I’d bet it would.
3. Mina Kimes
I swear to you I brought her name up to my colleagues Steven Ruiz and Chris Korman, who informed me that they, too, had mentioned her in their most episode of their new NFL podcast, The Counter. And then I found out that Forbes’ Shlomo Sprung also liked the idea. That means it’s got to be a good idea and that others would love to see the writer/podcaster/analyst/everything in this role.
2. Nate Burleson
He’s great on Good Morning Football, he’s great on The NFL Today, so what makes you think anything else about how he’d be in the booth? I’d tune in to hear not just his breakdown of what’s going on during the game, but to hear his take on the player culture in the league.
1. Kurt Warner
The experience is there — he’s with Kevin Harlan on the radio for Monday Night Football — he’s solid all around in all the areas you’d want him to be solid in for the national broadcast. If you’re looking to hire someone who won’t have his name trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons every Monday night, he’s your guy.
It was a long two years for Booger McFarland and Monday Night Football. The analyst tells The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand he has no regrets and has a couple years left on his contract with ESPN.
“It was a good experience,” McFarland said. “I don’t have anything bad to say about Monday Night. Obviously, it is one of the top jobs, if not the top job, in the industry. Overall, regardless of the outcome, it was a very good experience.
… “For me, the constant speculation was not that big of a deal Would you like not to have it? Sure, come on, man. That’s human nature. Did it affect me or bother me one iota? Not really.”
McFarland wound up in the Booger Mobile for the first season with Joe Tessitore and Jason Witten in the booth. Being above the sidelines presented a challenge when it came to building chemistry.
“Overall, when you talk about broadcasting, it was tough for a three-man booth to be as cohesive as it could be with one of the people 75 yards away,” McFarland said.
One interesting comment came regarding the build-up to the debut of the trio in 2018. Jay Rothman, then the MNF producer, said Tessitorre was a “young Brent Musburger/Frank Sinatra combo,” while Witten was “Captain America” and McFarland will be “football’s Charles Barkley.”
It was a billing that created impossible expectations.
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“For me, I always try to approach things and I’ve always learned that the best approach is the humble approach,” McFarland said. “That is the way I go about things. Unfortunately, you can’t control what other people say.”
As for the future, it is at ESPN.
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“I don’t really know just yet,” McFarland told The Post. “I have a couple of years left on my contract so I’m not going anywhere, so I’m assuming that we get through this pandemic and everything that is going on with that, we will figure it out.”