Big Slick co-host will join ManningCast broadcast of Chiefs-Jaguars game
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- Three broadcast options: KMBC local, ESPN national, and ManningCast on ESPN2.
- ManningCast will provide play breakdowns, guest interviews and commentary.
- Heidi Gardner will join as a guest, drawing on Big Slick and NFL media roles.
Chiefs fans will have three options for watching the “Monday Night Football” matchup against the Jaguars in Jacksonville, Florida.
“Monday Night Football” will air on KMBC (Ch. 9) in Kansas City as well as ESPN. And Peyton and Eli Manning will be calling the game on ESPN2, but it’s not a traditional broadcast. The ManningCast allows the brothers to break down plays, discuss what’s happening around the NFL and talk with special guests.
One guest for Monday’s broadcast will be openly rooting for the Chiefs: Former “Saturday Night Live” star Heidi Gardner, who is a co-host of the annual Big Slick event in Kansas City.
Gardner has a cameo in an upcoming episode of “Eli’s Places” and she recently was on the NFL Classics show on Vice, so that likely will be part of the discussion.
In that Vice show, Gardner shared a journal entry from 1994, when the Chiefs lost to the Bills in the AFC Championship Game when she was 10 years old.
Here is that clip and, boy, wouldn’t you love to hear that song she performed about Joe Montana?
Gardner is expected to join the ManningCast in the second half of Monday’s game.
This story was originally published October 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM.
