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Report: Joe Tessitore, Booger McFarland will not return to ESPN's MNF booth

ESPN is going to begin anew with its “Monday Night Football” booth, per a report by The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch. The network will not bring back play-by-play broadcaster Joe Tessitore nor analyst Booger McFarland.

ESPN is going to have a new Monday Night Football booth. Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland will not return, via sources. The successors will be internal. No decision has been made yet. Both Tessitore and McFarland will remain in prominent roles at ESPN.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) May 9, 2020

ESPN will hire within the company to replace them and the two will “remain in prominent roles at ESPN,” per the report.