DENNIS MILLER, FOUTS JOIN 'MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL' BOOTH
NEW YORK (AP) - Comedian Dennis Miller and Hall of Fame
quarterback Dan Fouts are joining the "Monday Night Football"
broadcast booth. ABC's three-month search to replace Boomer
Esiason and overhaul a program with declining ratings ended
Thursday with two very different choices. Fouts, who has been
calling college football games for ABC, will join play-by-play
announcer Al Michaels in the broadcast booth. Eric Dickerson,
another Hall of Fame player, and ESPN's Melissa Stark will be
sideline reporters, replacing Lesley Visser. Housecleaning at
"Monday Night Football" began in March, when Esiason was fired
after two seasons in the booth, and Don Ohlmeyer, the show's
producer in the 1970s, was brought back. Ohlmeyer vowed at the
time to get viewers talking about the show the way they did when
Howard Cosell and Don Meredith were on ABC' NFL team. |
