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    Miller’s broadcasting ability

    Kindergarten sarcasm needs to be kicked out

    A BC might as well let a crash-test dummy make the calls on Monday Night Football, rather than Dennis Miller.

    For sheer comedy, I’d like to see Bill Romanowski sphere Dennis Miller straight into one of those pesky telestrators, instead of listening to one of Miller’s pre-manufactured kindergarten jokes. MNF is not a comedy show, it is a sporting event … if I want to watch sports entertainment, I’d switch the station over to TNN or TNT and watch WWF and WCW, which is real entertainment. Maybe Miller should apply to Vince McMahon to do play-by-play with Jerry “The King” Lawler. He could be Dennis “The Menace” Miller.

    ABC is making a death wish by resigning the immature Miller for another season. Just this year MNF has seen a seven- percent drop in the ratings.

    If ABC wants childish, ridiculous performances to draw ratings, they should just let Jim Carey make silly faces on the air, while Peyton Manning or Brett Favre is throwing a game-winning 60-yard touchdown pass.

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    There’s enough excitement in football as it stands, it would be very innovative if the commentators kept their eyes on the game and not on Miller and his cheesy gimmicks.

    Miller’s lack of professionalism fabricates Hall of Famer Dan Fouts and veteran broadcaster Al Michaels into idiots. ABC should adorn a new halftime show featuring “The Mighty Midgets Gone Evil,” where Miller could be a puppeteer and Michaels and Fouts could actually review the first half of the game.

    They could have Miller use puppets to show how one team was suffering on third down or how the other team had rushed for 200 yards.

    Dumbfounded by Miller’s antics, Fouts and Michaels have sometimes been caught with their mouths hanging, nothing to say.

    If this trend continues, big plays will go unnoticed, with no coverage, and we won’t know who ran back the interception 50 yards or recovered the fumble.

    Miller’s sarcasm can be funny, but it is not needed for color commentary in important football games. I would much rather have former quarterback Boomer Esiason in the booth than Miller.

    Miller has not been out on the playing field and doesn’t know what its like out there. ABC needs to let the grasp of the kindergarten antics go, and worry about their programming.

    The telecast is Monday Night Football, not Monday Night Kindergarten Comedy.

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