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Tony Kornheiser had two roles with ESPN: co-host of Pardon the Interruption and Monday Night Football. Now he has one.

Fired Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden will replace Kornheiser on the MNF team with Mike Tirico and Ron Jaworski.

"I am totally grateful for the MNF opportunity that I truly enjoyed the last three seasons," [Kornheiser] said. "I feel we got better each year. My fear of planes is legendary and sadly true. When I looked at the upcoming schedule it was the perfect storm that would've frequently moved me from the bus to the air. I kept looking at the schedule the past month and wanted to find a way to quietly extricate myself."

Although the reason cited for the substitution was Kornheiser's "fear of flying," it should have been his fear of crashing. Even though I'm a big fan of Kornheiser (and Michael Wilbon) on PTI, I think he was horrible on MNF.

It's good to see that ESPN will replace him with an "analyst" that understands the game and won't ramble on with the pointless blah blah blahs.

For now, I'll watch MNF without the tv muted.