MNF TWINBILL CREWS SET
For the second half of its season-opening Monday Night Football doubleheader on Sept. 11, ESPN will have Brad Nessler, Ron Jaworski and Dick Vermeil in the booth, The Post has learned.
With MNF moving to cable this year, the NFL has set up ESPN with a unique football doubleheader. Its first game, Minnesota at Washington, will begin at 7 p.m. with ESPN’s lead MNF team of Mike Tirico, Joe Theismann and Tony Kornheiser calling the action. Michele Tafoya and Suzy Kolber will be on the sidelines.
At 10:15 p.m., Nessler, Jaworski and Vermeil will be in Oakland for the Chargers-Raiders game. Bonnie Bernstein will be the sideline reporter.
After Al Michaels backed out of his signed contract to call ESPN Monday Night Football in order to join NBC earlier this year, Nessler was a runner-up for the top MNF play-by-play job that eventually went to Tirico.
Vermeil, who will also work NFL Network games later this season, coached Jaworski when the two led the Eagles to Super Bowl XV in January 1981.


