Why, ESPN? Why?

For the love of God, how could ESPN do it? I just read where Joe Theismann will join Al Michaels in the booth for ESPN's Monday Night Football coverage that will begin in 2006. What the Hell were they thinking? Michaels is one of the all time best play-by-play men in sports broadcasting. This is a guy who made the famous "Do you believe in miracles" comment at the end of the US/Russia 1980 Olympic hockey game. Now, they are pairing him with one of the worst football analysts of all time in Theismann. This is the broadcast equivalent of putting Gary Cherone as the lead singer of Van Halen. It's a mistake from the beginning and unfortunately the fans are going to have to live with it until ESPN figures it out. The bad thing is that they probably won't figure it out, because football fans will watch football in spite of the commentators (Chris Collinsworth proves that), so you won't have the ratings drag like the lack of sales generated by the Cherone/Van Halen album. Plus, TV ratings services can't keep track of how often I mute the volume which I'm sure I will do repeatedly. Man, I just want to vomit. I thought Theismann might be gone for good.