Booger Mcfarland Monday Night Football
While Booger McFarland is best known for his role as an analyst on ESPN's Monday Night Football, the broadcaster had quite the NFL career in the past, having starred as a defensive tackle for nine years. Many NFL fans aren't crazy about Booger's takes on the air (or his NSFW accidental drawings), but the Super.
It was a long two years for Booger McFarland and Monday Night Football. The analyst tells The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand he has no regrets and has a couple years left on his contract with ESPN. McFarland, now an ESPN studio analyst after a stint in the Monday Night Football booth, suggested too many of the NFL's predominantly young Black players are overly concerned with their 'brands. ESPN analyst Booger McFarland faced criticism for what he said about Dwayne Haskins and Black NFL players on Monday night. McFarland said that Haskins and other players, who are often Black, come.
ESPN analyst Booger McFarland faced criticism for what he said about Dwayne Haskins and Black NFL players on Monday night.
McFarland said that Haskins and other players, who are often Black, come into the NFL and are focused too much on their “brand” instead of the business of football.
Haskins, 23, was released by the Washington Football Team on Monday afternoon. The former Ohio State Buckeyes star was a first-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.
“Often times young players, especially — I’m gonna go ahead — especially young African-American players, because they make up 70 percent of this league — they come into this league and ask themselves the wrong thing,” McFarland said. “They come into the league saying not ‘how can I be a better player?’ They don’t say ‘how can I be a better teammate?’ They don’t say ‘how can I be a better person; how can get my organization over the hump?’
“Here’s what they come in saying. They come in saying ‘how can I build my brand better? How can I build my social media following better? How can I work out on Instagram and show everybody that I’m ready to go, but when I get to the game, I don’t perform?”
McFarland took some criticism on social media for his comments. He later addressed it.
My message was to all players which I said but specifically to the part of the NFL that’s makes up almost 70% the AA players. And of course I’m not speaking to ALL but in my 20+ years around the NFL I’ve seen to many cases. I stand by what I said whether u agree or disagree pic.twitter.com/6buvIc7Tje
— Booger (@ESPNBooger) December 29, 2020
Haskins was released after struggling both on and off the field in Washington. He was benched multiple times and twice violated the league’s COVID-19 protocol.
The former Ohio State Buckeyes star is one of the fastest first-round flameouts in recent memory.
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© Getty GettyIt was a long two years for Booger McFarland and Monday Night Football. The analyst tells The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand he has no regrets and has a couple years left on his contract with ESPN.
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— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) May 14, 2020https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“It was a good experience,” McFarland said. “I don’t have anything bad to say about Monday Night. Obviously, it is one of the top jobs, if not the top job, in the industry. Overall, regardless of the outcome, it was a very good experience.
… “For me, the constant speculation was not that big of a deal Would you like not to have it? Sure, come on, man. That’s human nature. Did it affect me or bother me one iota? Not really.”
McFarland wound up in the Booger Mobile for the first season with Joe Tessitore and Jason Witten in the booth. Being above the sidelines presented a challenge when it came to building chemistry.
“Overall, when you talk about broadcasting, it was tough for a three-man booth to be as cohesive as it could be with one of the people 75 yards away,” McFarland said.
One interesting comment came regarding the build-up to the debut of the trio in 2018. Jay Rothman, then the MNF producer, said Tessitorre was a “young Brent Musburger/Frank Sinatra combo,” while Witten was “Captain America” and McFarland will be “football’s Charles Barkley.”
It was a billing that created impossible expectations.
“For me, I always try to approach things and I’ve always learned that the best approach is the humble approach,” McFarland said. “That is the way I go about things. Unfortunately, you can’t control what other people say.”
As for the future, it is at ESPN.
“I don’t really know just yet,” McFarland told The Post. “I have a couple of years left on my contract so I’m not going anywhere, so I’m assuming that we get through this pandemic and everything that is going on with that, we will figure it out.”