Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser have been doing ESPN's "Pardon The Interruption" together for more than 20 years.
The longtime Washington Post columnists and friends have teamed up for one of the best shows in sports TV history. However, at a certain point, the show will stop - or, at least, get broken up. Wilbon is 67 years old, while Kornheiser is 78 years old.
What would happen if Wilbon wanted to keep doing the show, but Kornheiser chose to retire?
Wilbon said that he would consider doing the show without Kornheiser, on one condition, though.
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Wilbon said during a recent appearance on the Awful Announcing Podcast that he would consider doing "PTI" without Kornheiser, if Frank Isola would replace him.
How would 'PTI' continue on ESPN?
Wilbon admitted that he thinks about a post-Kornheiser future.
“We do, because we do,” Wilbon said when asked about doing the show with someone else. “With substitutes all along the whole 24 years. Could I see doing a show with Frank Isola, who I do the show mostly with now when Tony’s out? Yeah, I could do that. And I think Frank is like Tony and me, and I say that as a point of inclusion, not for anybody to read anything into it. PTI is Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon. That’s what PTI is. But Frank is like the last of the Mohicans.”
Wilbon is a big fan.
“Frank Isola is one of the few people left who can speak to it all, who goes to a World Cup game on a Thursday and maybe an NFL training camp on Friday,” Wilbon said. “That’s what we all did. ESPN killed that.”
