1. ESPN finally got Peyton Manning on their air calling a Monday Night Football game—and it was a success.
The Worldwide Leader has said all along that Peyton and Manning aren’t calling 10 games on ESPN2 this season as a replacement for the main broadcast, called by Steve Levy, Louis Riddick and Brian Grise, on ESPN. The brothers are there to provide an alternative option and that’s what they did perfectly last night in the Raiders’ 33–27 overtime win over the Ravens.
Aside from the first five minutes of the broadcast, which were pretty cringing, things couldn’t have gone better.