I’m not typically the guy who follows the herd of sheep when something starts gaining steam. “Going viral” if you will. When everyone starts jumping on the train I’ll be the guy standing on the platform and watching it leave. I don’t pile on to the sort of shit that simpletons enjoy. “Bro tell me you watched Tiger King.” Nope. I don’t need to watch the documentary about a mentally ill guy who owns tigers (probably tortures them) desperately seek the love and attention his parents never gave him from self-serving people that pretend to be his friends. The only thing I remotely care about in that equation is making sure someone with a brain enters that picture and puts all the tigers back into the jungle where they belong. And if you are triggered because I got that plot summary entirely wrong, please know that my analysis from seeing the Netflix icon is probably more accurate than yours after you watched the 2 hour documentary.
That being said, I have no choice but to ride along on the “Booger McFarland was terrible on Monday Night Football” train. I used to be in the camp that no matter who was announcing a game, I didn’t think it could affect my enjoyment. If it’s Collinsworth/Michaels, or Romo/Nantz then I know it would be an added benefit to watching the game. But I’ve also watched enough Brock Huard on Penn State in my day that I assumed I could handle anything. *Editors note: I seriously just spent 5 minutes of my life trying to remember Brock Huards name. I was typing “fake Kirk Herbstreit” into google and “worst college football announcers” and finally got a ping on him. Good lord just seeing his face makes me remember how bad he sucks.*
Then came the MNF double header of 2017 that made me question it all. MNF Rex Ryan AND Beth Mowens. “They got Beth Mowens for this shit? I thought she was too busy with Saturday Purdue at 11am Central Time?” The production that night was so goddam bad it was almost enjoyable. I don’t even remember the game itself. I just remember holding my breath in embarrassment for three hours. Rex and Beth failing at broadcast 101 type of stuff. Cutting each other off, talking when they should shut up, Rex standing too close to the camera so his head was being cut out of the frame. And then the magic happened. The greatest moment in MNF history when they threw it down to the field to the Spanish guy. He was trained even less than I am to do sideline reporting and I have zero hours of training. When in doubt just start screaming things that you observe in your path of vision. “VANCE JOSEPH!!!!!
Flash forward a year. When I flipped on the first MNF of the 2018-2019 season I’m sure I had the same thoughts that most casual NFL fans had. “Oh shit I forgot they hired Jason Witten for this. Who cares, how bad could he really be?” Well he was pretty goddam bad from the start. So bad that halfway through the season most people were at the point where they would rather see the random guy in the hydraulic lift on the sideline replace Witten inside the booth.
And it’s wild to think that people at a company as successful as ESPN thought it was a good idea to put a guy up in the air in a big obnoxious contraption in front of the spectator’s seats and ask him for insight twice a game. Even Brian Kelly looked at that and said “that’s a bad idea.”
I guess the craziest part of the situation is that even ESPN recognized Witten was terrible and thought the hydraulic lift guy would be an upgrade. Witten’s return to the NFL ultimately saved ESPN from having to make that decision for the 2019-2020 season. But as a result of his departure, he had opened up the door for a historically bad performance from Booger McFarland.
I think it’s fair to say most of us knew we weren’t getting much of an upgrade, if any, swapping Booger for Witten. But I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t think it would be possible that he could actually be worse at announcing. Never have I watched anyone commentate something where they were actually able to take away from the game on such a consistent basis. Forget not adding anything of substance to it, this guy was undoubtedly making it worse to have the volume up while you watched. The inaccuracies would unfold right in front of your eyes as he spoke. Almost like he was looking at a different game sometimes. If Andy Reid had on a red shirt Booger would make a point to add some unnecessary commentary about his green shirt.
“They’re not going to come up and play the run” ...
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) December 10, 2019
As literally the entire secondary bites on the fake while an open wide receiver streaks past pic.twitter.com/xSSIotAyEc
I think the Bills should have taken Booger's advice here. Gain a few yards on 3rd down, and then spike the ball on 4th down while trailing by 3 late in the game. pic.twitter.com/z4mpaYMgte
— Funhouse (@BackAftaThis) January 5, 2020
While ESPN showed this graphic Booger McFarland said “I dont care what the stats say, he’s having a dominant night.”
— Brandon Sprague (@BrandonSprague) November 12, 2019
Uhhhh.... We know, Booger. pic.twitter.com/tNEp2mwkQi
Never forget when Booger McFarland drew this on live TV pic.twitter.com/tGzsj3dX95
— Tony Clements (@TonyClementsTC) May 9, 2020
It is a fact, not opinion, to say that every single NFL fan on earth had had enough of Booger by the end of the year. Even the players themselves admitted it was a difficult feat to subject yourself to Monday Night Football.
“If you mute your TV, the sound will stop coming out” pic.twitter.com/w1wKfriWAG
— BRAD (@Brad_5am) January 5, 2020
They might as well let me commentate
— DIGGS (@stefondiggs) November 19, 2019
I think former Penn Stater Deion Barnes actually summarized Booger’s MNF performance best with one sentence: “Booger McFarland just be talking.”
Booger McFarland just be talking. He said the flea flicker didn’t draw anybody as the slot receiver runs by himself down the middle of the field lol
— Deion Barnes (@DBarnes_18) December 10, 2019
That’s what he did. That’s what we’ll always remember him for. He just talked. Talked when he shouldn’t have been talking. Talked about stuff he was clueless about. Talked about stuff irrelevant to the game. Booger was basically an example of what you or I would have been forced to do on live television if we were put in that position. And what I’m about to say next might shock you. IT COULD BE WORSE.
Imagine if they stuck the Vance Joseph guy up in the booth? It’s clearly a difficult job and not everyone is able to do it well. I didn’t recognize that fact for a long time and thankfully Witten and Booger got that fallacy cleared up for me. So I’ll always appreciate the 2019-2020 MNF season for what it was and I pray to god they don’t somehow find someone worse at that job. *Somewhere Pat McAfee just stood out of his seat ready to rise to the occasion*
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