So we’re watching Man-Girl and Meatball in the Morning, and we noticed for the first time some very harsh criticisms from Mike Greenberg directed to the National Football League.

For starters, Greenberg ripped the league for sending the New Orleans Saints to England, and in turn taking a home game away from the city that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  (Of course, it had been known for a couple of months that the Saints will play a home game in London in 2008, but the release of the regular-season schedule on Tuesday dusted the issue off.  We don’t know whether Greenberg made similar comments when the news officially was disclosed.)

Then, Greenberg proposed something that we’ve actually contemplated doing here — creating a clock that reveals the number of days that have passed without the league being able to sit down and interview former Pats employee Matt Walsh.

We’ll admit that we don’t watch a lot of Man-Girl and Meatball, and that we vaguely recall Greenberg taking a stand from time to time on matters relating to the NFL.  But the one-two punch got our attention as being out of character for Greenberg, and it makes us wonder whether Greenberg has been told that he and his boyfriend won’t be working the back end of the Week One Monday Night Football double-header, possibly at the suggestion of league muckety-mucks who think that Greenberg’s play-by-play skills are on par with Bryant Gumbel’s.

Actually, Greenberg was a tad better than Gumbel, but that ain’t sayin’ much.

When the Week One prime-time games were announced a couple of weeks ago, ESPN said that the broadcasting team would be announced at a later date.