ATS Consultants posted on February 15, 2012 13:46
So much for the three-man booth. Monday Night Football made history with Frank Gifford calling the action and the late Don Meredith and Howard Cosell adding color. They've made many changes to try and find the right formula and now they are going back to a two man booth for the sixth time in their 42-year history.
Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden will call the games for ESPN starting in 2012. Ron Jaworski is leaving the booth but has signed a five-year extension with ESPN in an expanded analyst role with the company.
Jaworski last five seasons in the booth and originally joined ESPN in 1990. He has worked in a number of roles, from sideline reporter to studio host to analyst.
Jaworski will make regular appearances on "Sunday NFL Countdown", "NFL Matchup", "NFL Live", "NFL Kickoff", "Mike & Mike in the Morning" and PTI's "Five Good Minutes." He also will be featured in ESPN's NFL draft and Super Bowl programming.
Tirico and Gruden will make their 2012 regular-season "Monday Night Football" debut Sept. 10. The 2012 NFL schedule will be released in the coming months.
This will be first time in 15 years that ESPN has used a two-person booth to call NFL games since Mike Patrick and Joe Theismann called "Sunday Night Football" from 1988 to 1997.