It will be interesting to see who covers games for ESPN. Except for maybe Diana Russini (who if I remember correctly did sideline reporting for XFL 2.0), I can't see any of their other NFL personalities doing it. I would actually like to see ESPN use a lot of their college football folks do the XFL, as Fox has done with Joel Klatt for USFL. I don't mean Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as Kirk will be super busy with NFL Thursday Night Football on Amazon and College Football on Saturday's for ESPN. I would like to see Reese Davis, Jesse Palmer, Desmond Howard and David Pollack as the studio guys. I don't remember who did the games for ESPN in 2020, but I would guess most of those guys would be back. Pat McAfee would not be an option because he's working for WWE now and XFL games would conflict with his WWE schedule, especially if the games are on Sundays when the WWE has a PPV event he has to work. He's not skipping next year's Wrestlemania to commentate a random XFL game on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
I am also not expecting everyone who works at ESPN to be positive about the XFL. I highly expect Chris Russo on First Take to bash the league while Stephen A Smith will take a more measured approach about how he's skeptical about the league's chances but the Rock is involved with the XFL and he doesn't usually fail.
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I remember Steve Levy was one for ESPN.GDAWG wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 11:22 pm It will be interesting to see who covers games for ESPN. Except for maybe Diana Russini (who if I remember correctly did sideline reporting for XFL 2.0), I can't see any of their other NFL personalities doing it. I would actually like to see ESPN use a lot of their college football folks do the XFL, as Fox has done with Joel Klatt for USFL. I don't mean Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as Kirk will be super busy with NFL Thursday Night Football on Amazon and College Football on Saturday's for ESPN. I would like to see Reese Davis, Jesse Palmer, Desmond Howard and David Pollack as the studio guys. I don't remember who did the games for ESPN in 2020, but I would guess most of those guys would be back. Pat McAfee would not be an option because he's working for WWE now and XFL games would conflict with his WWE schedule, especially if the games are on Sundays when the WWE has a PPV event he has to work. He's not skipping next year's Wrestlemania to commentate a random XFL game on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
I am also not expecting everyone who works at ESPN to be positive about the XFL. I highly expect Chris Russo on First Take to bash the league while Stephen A Smith will take a more measured approach about how he's skeptical about the league's chances but the Rock is involved with the XFL and he doesn't usually fail.
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Steve Levy is going to do secondary Monday Night Football Games and probably college football.Gopher123 wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 11:34 pmI remember Steve Levy was one for ESPN.GDAWG wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 11:22 pm It will be interesting to see who covers games for ESPN. Except for maybe Diana Russini (who if I remember correctly did sideline reporting for XFL 2.0), I can't see any of their other NFL personalities doing it. I would actually like to see ESPN use a lot of their college football folks do the XFL, as Fox has done with Joel Klatt for USFL. I don't mean Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as Kirk will be super busy with NFL Thursday Night Football on Amazon and College Football on Saturday's for ESPN. I would like to see Reese Davis, Jesse Palmer, Desmond Howard and David Pollack as the studio guys. I don't remember who did the games for ESPN in 2020, but I would guess most of those guys would be back. Pat McAfee would not be an option because he's working for WWE now and XFL games would conflict with his WWE schedule, especially if the games are on Sundays when the WWE has a PPV event he has to work. He's not skipping next year's Wrestlemania to commentate a random XFL game on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
I am also not expecting everyone who works at ESPN to be positive about the XFL. I highly expect Chris Russo on First Take to bash the league while Stephen A Smith will take a more measured approach about how he's skeptical about the league's chances but the Rock is involved with the XFL and he doesn't usually fail.
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I agree, I was just giving you a name in response to you saying you couldn’t remember who did games for ESPN in 2020.
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Well remember he did do the Kraken home opener two nights before also doing Saints/Seahawks on MNF.
So if say he did a game on ABC Saturday in Vegas, DC, or St. Louis, and that first Sunday is there it could happen. Not likely but as a one-time or part-time (see Gus Johnson and Aaron Goldsmith doing NFL on FOX last year).
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