Well, given the lack of opinions around Kevin Burkhardt, let me quickly change tack and open a new thread which I suspect is likely to draw rather more comments and votes. Joe Tessitore is in his second year as the Monday Night Football commentator for ESPN, having served as college football commentator with at least some distinction and also worked as a boxing and college basketball commentator. I suspect very few of you will know him for his basketball and/or boxing work, though, so I suspect most people will evaluate him on his NFL work.
Without trying to predetermine the results here, I suspect that the results will largely be negative, although a) I'm keen to hear from Tessitore's defenders, if there are any, and b) I wonder how much negativity around his performance is due to him being promoted too far too quickly, rather than his commentary as such. Because he seemed a perfectly fine second-tier college commentator, at least to the point that I don't remember thinking badly of him, before he got the MNF gig. Anyway, I'll let everyone else take it from here...
Without trying to predetermine the results here, I suspect that the results will largely be negative, although a) I'm keen to hear from Tessitore's defenders, if there are any, and b) I wonder how much negativity around his performance is due to him being promoted too far too quickly, rather than his commentary as such. Because he seemed a perfectly fine second-tier college commentator, at least to the point that I don't remember thinking badly of him, before he got the MNF gig. Anyway, I'll let everyone else take it from here...