Odds set for ‘MNF’ booth. Antonio Brown is actually on the board.
Football fans can actually bet on who will be the next color commentator in the “Monday Night Football” booth.
By some stroke of insanity, former Steeler Antonio Brown is on the board via Sportsbetting.ag.
With odds of 100/1.
I know. I thought they’d be greater when I read the headline, too.
Would you bet $100 on Antonio Brown becoming the next “Monday Night Football” announcer? I wouldn’t. But I might pay $10,000 to make it happen.
Can you imagine Mr. Big Chest making the “MNF” booth his next career endeavor? Wow, the possibilities are endless.
Wait, would he still have to serve a suspension from Roger Goodell before that happens?
Never mind. Pfft! Details, details.
Remember, in happier times, Brown once described quarterback Ben Roethlisberger this way.
“He’s an ‘exceptionalism,’” Brown said back in 2018. “He’s not average. He’s not a regular person. He’s not ordinary. When you are an ‘expertalism,’ you have to accept the fact that he’s different.”
Right.
And you thought the internet was mean to Joe Tessitore and Anthony “Booger” McFarland when they were in the booth?! ESPN relieved those two of their duties over the weekend.
How about what Twitter did to poor Jason Witten? He was bullied so hard, he went back to getting hit by NFL linebackers with the Dallas Cowboys. Witten felt that was a less brutal existence.
Those guys would just be appetizers compared to Brown.
If Brown got that gig, it’d be awesome. We could then make bets on:
• What color he’d dye his mustache every week.
• How many different prints would be in his suit each week.
• How fast his speeding ticket would be registered on the way to the game.
• How many minutes after the start of the game he would actually arrive.
• How long he would last before getting fired.
• Could he actually draw a celebration flag following a touchdown up in the booth?
• Which other member of the broadcast team he’d attack first on social media.
Former NFL quarterback Brian Griese is the favorite at 3/1. Former Pitt player and ESPN NFL analyst Louis Riddick is next in line at 5/1 with another ESPN talking head, Dan Orlovsky.
He also was a quarterback in the NFL.
By the way, there’s another longshot candidate to find his way into the booth on that board. And he might even be more controversial than Brown.
It’s former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. He’s at 50/1 against.
At this point I have to wonder, instead of sliding to the opening shot like Cris Collinsworth does on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” would Kaepernick just kneel?
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