Joe Theismann, who was fired by ESPN as a Monday Night Football analyst this off-season, thinks so. And he should probably know, having shared the booth with Tony Kornheiser for a brief, yet apparently excruciating, period. In an interview with Metro Boston News today, Theismann spilled some dirt on the increasingly kooky Kornheiser:

Tony is extremely neurotic. … I believe, 100 percent that you cannot insult the football fan. “Monday Night Football” is about football, and I hope that they continue to deliver that product to the fan. “Monday Night Football” cannot be an extension of “Pardon The Interruption,” because the game is too important.

Theismann, you see, believes that Kornheiser has dumbed down Monday Night Football (yes, apparently that’s possibly) by injecting a little “humor” into the game.

Meanwhile, others are disappointed by Kornheiser’s continued reign because they say he often “showed up to the Monday night booth ill-prepared, ignorant of even the most basic facts about the teams, and relying solely on scripted lines for his lame attempts at humor.”