Kornheiser Kills Telecast

I've avoided Monday Night Football all year as Tony Kornheiser's announcing is like nails on a chalkboard for me. With the Chargers finally scheduled for MNF, I was forced to watch and listen - I should have and encourage others to use the mute button in the future. In fact, I formally request TiVo to support a new feature that selectively blocks out Tony Kornheiser's voice from the telecast. What does ESPN see in this man? If their goal was to make it impossible to enjoy the game - mission accomplished. Here are some of the major Kornheiser-isms that had me dropping F-bombs at the TV:

1. Nobody knows who LT is: Seriously? The guy was the league MVP last year, is generally regarded as the best running back in the game and often referred to as the best player in the game. He is the face of the top selling flat screen TV in the country. Kornheiser's assertion that people would know LT if he played in Chicago or New York cements the East Coast sports bias once and for all - I now understand the delusion that allowed Gino Torretta to beat Marshall Faulk for the Heisman in 1992. Seriously people - I live in Washington, DC and can tell you that same city that brought you Kornheiser also brought you The George Michael Sports Machine. No sportswriter/caster/personality from DC should be allowed past the Beltway in any kind of transmittable form. I won't even start on the Redskins announcing staff that I honestly thought was a bunch a drunks that hijacked the radio station the first time I heard a telecast.
   
2. Chargers Talking Trash: Where the hell has Tony been on this? The average NFL player still acts like he's on a 5th grade playground. You'd have thought that Philip Rivers was the first person in the NFL to utter a negative or degrading comment at an opposing player in league history.
3. The LT Visor: Everybody can't get the visor with the tint as it requires some kind of special exemption based on a prescription. I'm not sure what the exact rule is, but I'm also not paid to annouce a world-wide telecast with a bunch of researchers that no doubt have that information at the fingertips.

A quick check of Awful Announcing unearthed a live blog that echoes some of my concerns:

• First half live blog
  
• Second half live blog