Kornheiser on Theismann

Joe Theismann has been replaced on ESPN's Monday Night Football by Ron Jaworski. I interviewed Theismann's MNF boothmate Tony Kornheiser last September, at the beginning of his first season on the program. The Q&A was killed for space by New York Magazine and never ran anywhere.

An excerpt:

Kois: Does Joe Theismann like the Penguin Dance?

Kornhesier: I don’t think he’s ever seen the Penguin Dance. I don’t think that’s ever come up on his radar. (Laughs.) The thing about that relationship -- and I have no idea where it's going to go -- but when I started at the Washington Post, I covered Joe Theismann as a player. Joe has told me that he feels that I ripped him unmercifully, whereas I look back on it and I think I treated him great. I had some laughs at his expense, but I always found him to be somewhat charming.

Kois: Theismann seems kind of like the perfect straight man. Has anyone told him that most of the things you say are, like, jokes?

Kornheiser: (Long pause.) That's a good line. (Laughs.) I can't answer that.