According to the Sports Business Daily:
No offense to Greenberg and Golic, but it seems to be a sign of disrespect to the Arena Football League to let two talk radio personalities be the broadcast team for most games. Especially considering the whole rationale behind the move will more than likely involve moving some of the banter from Mike and Mike in the Morning to the broadcast booth. Apparently, ESPN isn’t going for a true game telecast, one where the down and distance is what’s important, instead opting for the entertainment approach — the one that brought such unanimous, unyielding praise of the Monday Night Football booth. And while the three to four hundred viewers of ESPN’s AFL telecasts may not mind idle conversation about whether a potato is a fruit or a vegetable, this still seems like a signal that ESPN isn’t taking its AFL broadcasts very seriously.
That being said, there is a possibility that Greenberg and Golic could play it straight and do a pure game telecast. After all, Greenberg is a SportsCenter veteran and a former reporter on ABC golf telecasts, while Golic is a decent enough NFL analyst. If viewers are spared song parodies and talk about Greenberg’s book (which, the last time I watched Mike and Mike, usually took up about two of the four hours of the show), it might not be a bad situation.
Aside from Greenberg and Golic, other broadcast teams include Trey Wingo and Mark Schlereth and — intriguingly — Ron Jaworski and Merril Hoge. One would assume that Jaworski would be doing play-by-play.
