You might be thinking that Joe Theismann, since being removed from the Monday Night Football broadcast team, has let his keen intellect and wit slip a little bit. Rest assured, that is not the case. Joe is analyzing his current career options with the same razor-sharp savvy he's used to analyze everything else. "I've been an NFL guy since 1974, so for 33 years now that's been my life," Theismann said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "Now you are faced with the prospect of that not being in your future. It would be like training to be a doctor or a lawyer and having them say, 'we would like you to change to another profession.'"Yeah, exactly. Going from having to know how to diagnose and treat acute diverticulitis to having to defend a man accused of double homicide ... well, that's exactly like going from analyzing the five-step drop of a quarterback to analyzing the five-step drop of a quarterback who's three years younger. They are equally challenging, and Joe Theismann deserves our love and support in this trying time.
I can see where he's coming from, I guess. I get that it's hard ... I mean, thirty-three years is a very long time to be doing anything. You get accustomed to things, you get set in your ways, it's difficult to change.
But really, the only difference here is the day of the week on which he does his job and the age of the players he's paid to analyze. It's not like he's going from molecular biologist to bass guitarist for Warrant. It's not like he's going from a longshoreman to a concert pianist. The difference is not that vast. Just suck it up and make the switch, Joe.
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All I have to say about removing Joe from the booth is, ESPN AND ABC EXECUTIVES MUST BE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE LOOKING FOIR THEIR BRAINS.
I've heard a lot of people,(who have never met Joe), say that he is very self centered, and in love with himself, but people who have met him say the exact opposite, he is very warm and friendly. I wonder who knows most about him?
Joey Heisman was a pleasure to listen to. I also heard he was in love with himself. But that never came across during a broadcast, so who cares what he does in his free time. He got dropped the same reason that Len Dawson got dropped from HBO. Not becasue he did a bad job, but because he was getting older , and they wanted to mix things up! Joe will land on his feet!!
Joe Theismann has an incurable case of Tim McCarver Disease -- in love with his own voice, an opinion on anything and everything, over-analyzing the most innocuous minutiae.
("Did you see the way the seams on the ball spun at 86 degrees instead of 90 degrees? That allowed the safety to flinch his elbow a hair, no two hairs, to the left, which distracted the hotdog vendor in section 402 just enough that the woman in row F was able to get to the restroom before the fourth cheerleader from the left fixed her shoelace.")
Shut up, go back to your last name pronunciation (Theezman, which didn't rhyme with Heisman) and move on....