There's a curiosity factor to Limbaugh. A high-ranking AFC football team and former NFL executive agrees. Rush would add strong opinions to the show and comment extensively on the current affairs of football and the nation. The wholesale utilization of former football players is not a good thing. And while many people told me they had doubts about Rush's football knowledge, they're wrong.
Rush knows more about the game than they realize.
The fact is, MNF fans don't need so much technical analysis. That's why Boomer Esiason, who was the greatest quarterback in Cincinnati Bengal history, was the worst quarterback in Monday Night Football history. Other former pros, like Joe Willie Namath and Fred Williamson, barely lasted a season. Like Rush, Cosell's appeal was not so much his football knowledge. As his Washington Post obituary pointed out, though he always knew the passwords, Cosell was no student of the game and left that boring stuff to the ex-pros in the booth.