Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.

Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. My producer is Patrick Antenetti.

This week, our guest is Bougar McFarland. He is the analyst on Monday Night Football and now part of a two-person booth with Joe Tessator. Last year,

of course, Bougarland spent much of his year on the Bougarmoville until the end of the season

when he was in the booth. And now it is McFarland and Tessetor, and it should be really, really

interesting to see how they do. We had a really, really good conversation on what last year was like for him,

how he viewed the criticism of the product, what management talked about regarding him and

Joe going forward, his thoughts on Andrew Luck and how that story was covered in the media,

the value of having Super Bowl rings, and then a really interesting discussion on why so many in the media, the value of having Super Bowl rings, and then a really interesting discussion

on why so many in broadcasting hire big names and are seduced by big names as opposed to

maybe some people who test better or who have proven to be grinders who could be really good

in broadcasting.

So I think you're going to find it a very, very interesting conversation,

as Booker McFarland is about to start, on Monday Night Football,

a little under 45 minutes, I think.

And so coming up, Booger McFarland of the SPN's Monday Night Football.

All right, as I said at the top, Booker McFarland of ESPN's Monday Night Football. All right, as I said at the top,

Luger McFarland is the Monday Night Football analyst for ESPN.

He previously worked prior to his Monday Night Football gig

for the SEC Network.

As a college football analyst,

in addition to Monday Night Football,

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