Former Pioneer Chris Jarmon Gets Shoutout On Monday Night Football
Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, and Don Meredith made ABC’s Monday Night Football memorable, and the recollections of those early years of ABC’s Monday Night Football are still widely talked about. The legendary sports activities broadcasting trio of Cosell, Meredith, and Gifford remains bigger than life. A distinctive chemistry existed among them, often with a tension in the sales space that equaled that of the taking part in discipline combatants. Over the years enemies became associates, and friend became enemies. It was that volatile chemistry of early personalities from 1970-1983 that made ABC Monday Night Football legendary.
The seemingly constant banter from the studio panel ran concurrent with a dampened version of the radio audio within the background. This setup was extremely distracting and appeared disrespectful to radio play-by-play announcer Jim Simpson. With a three-hour show, NFLN could have simply utilized its commentators between segments of recreation footage. Glory loves 70s …