ESPN finally acknowledged last month that Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland were not returning to Monday Night Football in 2020. While plenty of names have been mentioned as virtual locks to take their place, ESPN has not officially named anyone to the new team.
All that we know for sure is that ESPN is likely to look exclusively at in-house talent to fill the role. Dave Pasch wants to be in the running.
Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports asked Pasch about the role in a recent interview. The play-by-play man did not mince words.
“I would absolutely love to be considered. It is one of the best jobs in broadcasting,” Pasch said. “There have been so many great announcers who called that game down through the years. I’d be lying if I didn’t say it was a dream caliber job.”
Pasch isn’t the first internal candidate to express interest when asked about it directly. Louis Riddick was asked by Will Cain last month if he was interested in being a part of Monday Night Football.
“To be able to call a live broadcast of a Monday Night Football game outside of a live broadcast of a Super Bowl is the very top level,” Riddick said. “It’s like going to the Super Bowl and winning it and winning it 16 straight weeks. That’s what it would feel like to me.”
While Pasch certainly has the experience and is in good standing at ESPN, Steve Levy is considered the leading candidate to be the new play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football on ESPN.
