First Call: Like the new ‘Monday Night Football’ crew? It has Pitt representation. Vote with your opinion.

For Tuesday’s “First Call,” we take a look at the new NFL “Monday Night Football” broadcast booth. And there’s some Pittsburgh representation.

Former Pitt Panther Louis Riddick is going to be part of the crew. He’ll be one of the color-commentary analysts, along with former NFL quarterback Brian Griese.

Steve Levy will handle the play-by-play.

Riddick was a defensive back at Pitt. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the ninth round of the 1991 draft. He played with four NFL teams during his career, and then went into front office work with Washington in 2001.

From there, Riddick eventually climbed the NFL ladder to the point that he became the Philadelphia Eagles director of pro personnel from 2010-13.

Eventually Riddick joined ESPN as an analyst for the network. Now he’ll be part of the weekly broadcasts.

I’m a fan of Levy’s play-by-play talents. Riddick’s player-knowledge is well established. I’ll be interested to see how it translates to a live game situation, though, as opposed to short hits in a studio setting.

And as far as Griese goes?

Meh.

I’ve never had much of a reaction to him. Maybe that’s what ESPN is going for after all the negativity thrown at the recent combination of Joe Tessitore, Anthony “Booger” McFarland and Jason Witten.

The new trio strikes me as solid, if not unremarkable. Whereas the former team stuck out because it was so widely panned.

Tessitore is a technically sound play-by-play man with fantastic pipes. He just had a quality that came off as overly presentational. Almost a “Simpsons-esque” caricature of a sports broadcaster.

I think that works great on college games. I really like him in those situations. But when he was calling the “Monday Night Football” games, for whatever reason, he felt phony, forced and two dimensional.

But “Booger” and Witten? Woof! That’s where the Twitter heat came into play.

McFarland had an uncanny knack for stating the obvious in the most colorful ways possible. As for Witten, let’s just say that between “kicking himself in the foot” and “pulling a rabbit out of his head,” analogies weren’t his strong point.

Neither was identifying the quarterback. Like future Hall of Famer “Sam” Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers.

At least based on a poll I tweeted out, NFL fans are in the mood for change. The new MNF booth is getting an approval rating of 66%.

Does that mean the new crew is well liked? Or are fans just happy the old crew is out? You decide. And you can vote as well.

The Steelers open their season on Monday, Sept. 14 against the New York Giants, but they won’t have that crew until Dec. 21 against the Cincinnati Bengals. That’s because Levy, Riddick and Griese will call the late Monday night game for Week 1 between Denver and Tennessee.

The usual ESPN/ABC college crew of Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit will call the Steelers’ season opener. Ironically, Levy, Riddick and Griese called the Raiders-Bronco game as the second crew for “Monday Night Football“ last year and ended up being the new crew this year.

So who knows? Maybe this year’s Steelers-Giants game will be an audition of sorts for Herbstreit and Fowler if the new group doesn’t go over well in its first year.