Jon Gruden Not Interested In Coaching Signs Multiyear Deal With ESPN

A Monday Night Delight

If your team sucks in the pro or college (Notre Dame) ranks and had visions of Jon Grudens stepping away from the booth to save your team, you will have to dream again as Gruden has agreed to an exclusive multi-year agreement to stay with ESPN with the company. Gruden has made a commitment to remain with ESPN.

In addition to his MNF role alongside play-by-play commentator Mike Tirico and analyst Ron Jaworski, Gruden will appear on ESPN’s NFL Draft and Super Bowl week coverage, among other platforms, and he will call the 2010 NFL Pro Bowl in South Florida on January 31, 2010. Gruden will serve as an analyst for ESPN Radio’s 2010 Rose Bowl and Bowl Championship Series title game broadcasts, where he will team with Tirico, and he will be part of SportsCenter coverage leading up to the ESPN on ABC telecasts of both games.

“Working with Mike, Jaws and our entire Monday Night Football team is the most fun I have had in years, and I am fired up to make this long-term commitment to ESPN,” said Gruden. “Monday Night Football is special and I look forward to remaining a part of it and continuing to call these great games.”

When Gruden first signed on with ESPN to replace Tony Kornheiser I thought they had picked the wrong man from within their stable of analysts, Herm Edwards being my choice, however I am so impressed with Gruden on Monday nights that I feel that Jaws is not even needed anymore.  He might not be your flavor but Gruden has exceeded the doubt I had place on him and find him to be very entertaining.

I was wrong Gruden, I apologize