Monday night was debut of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman as the broadcast booth for Monday Night Football. First thing on Tuesday morning, Sportsradio 96.7 & 1310 The Ticket’s The Musers took notice.
Show co-host Craig Miller set up the segment by talking about the changes Monday Night Football has gone thru for a long time before getting to this very important new pairing.
“Monday Night Football, for the last twenty-plus years, has just kind of been in the doldrums,” Miller said. “They’ve gone thru a lot of different announcers. They’ve gone thru a lot of different presentation modes. It was once THE brand in the NFL. Monday Night Football was must watch television.”
He then played the ESPN audio from the opening. Immediately, Miller noted, that the broadcast sounded different.
“It certainly was a different sound,” Miller mentioned. “It was a comfortable sound. It was great to hear Joe and Troy doing Monday Night Football.”
“I’m telling ya, if I’m just football fan as I was while I was getting dinner ready and saw that exact thing we just heard, it did. It felt so different,” show co-host George Dunham added. “It felt so big. This game means something.”
Dunham also noted that this could mean just as much for long-term viewership as it does to get people to check the game out casually.
“Yes, it was there first game together but I think it will have that feel every Monday night,” Dunham said. “It may not get you to tune in more than you did before, I think there will be a degree of that. But I think it can get you to stay with the game longer.”
