PICS: Bored announcers on Monday Night Football made themselves a smoothie on air

If Ireland's all-conquering rugby stars start running up the score against Georgia this weekend and RTÉ run out of hard-hitting analysis, they could do worse than follow the example of ESPN's Monday Night Football broadcasters.

With the Philadelphia Eagles sitting back on a 30-point fourth-quarter lead over Carolina last night, announcers Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden went all late-night infomercial on us, ostensibly selling viewers on the virtues of the Eagles' protein shakes. They even seemed a little disappointed their blender wasn't plugged in.

The time MNF was so bad the announcers cooked meth pic.twitter.com/7ZyIES7QRg — Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) November 11, 2014

#MNF pic.twitter.com/8grzn6OaJP — Terez Owens (@TerezOwens) November 11, 2014