Ron Jaworski has signed a five-year extension with ESPN for what the network touted in a press release this afternoon as an “expanded multi-platform analyst role.” But the announcement undersold the biggest news:
Jaworski will no longer be part of the “Monday Night Football” broadcast team.
ESPN will go with a booth of holdovers Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden next year, just the sixth time in the program’s 42-year history in which it has had a two-person booth.
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