Monday Night Football. The biggest stage in the biggest sport in the biggest business.
But for Dan Hoard and Sean McDonough, when the Bengals play the Giants at Met Life Stadium Monday night (8:30-Cincinnati’s Channel 5 and ESPN,) this might as well be the dawn of the 1980s and cable TV in 612 Day Hall or on the third floor of Booth Hall and where ever else aspiring sports announcers gathered at Syracuse University.
“It was miserable for non-broadcasting students watching the games with us,” recalls Hoard, the Bengals’ easy listening play-by-play voice in a breathless sea of inanity.