ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's career as a color commentator on ESPN's Monday Night Football lasted for only two Mondays. According to the New York Times, Kimmel was relieved of his duties following his second MNF appearance after making a jocular remark about Joe Theismann, who was fired last season, "watching from his living room with steam coming from his ears." The remark was greeted with dead silence by the other MNF broadcasters, Ron Jaworski, Tony Kornheiser, and Mike Tirico. On Tuesday, Monday Night Football producer Jay Rothman called Kimmel's comment "classless and disappointing. It was cheap." He said Kimmel will not return.
P.S. The game in question-Falcons vs. the Giants-is the lowest viewed game-ever-on MNF. Maybe they should bring back Joe Theisman, who when in college at Notre Dame, changed the pronunciation of his name to rhyme with Heisman, as in the Heisman Award, for which he wanted consideration.
BTW: Joe is 57 years old.
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