There’s no greater media mystery this season than what exactly to make of ESPN’s new Monday Night Football announcing booth of Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten and Booger McFarland.
It’s one thing for a high-profile announcing team to have one new addition. But three?
That’s highly unusual and somewhat risky, even more so when the third member of that team — McFarland — is assigned not to the booth, but to an unusual “field analyst” role where he will be unable to have eye contact or nonverbal cues with Tessitore and Witten to know exactly when to speak.