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Monday Night Football


ESPN Monday Night Football (abbreviated as MNF and also known as ESPN Monday Night Football on ABC for rare live special broadcast) is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States. From to , it aired on sister broadcast network ABC. "Monday Night Football" was, along with "Hallmark Hall of Fame" and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest-running prime time programs ever on commercial network television, and one of the highest-
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Bob Goodrich


creation of ABC’s "Monday Night Football" in 1970, and how the program rose to the top of the ratings, becoming an American television institution in the process. In this film, actor Brennan Brown portrayed Bob Goodrich, and Bob worked as a consultant on the film. Goodrich was the producer for the "Monday Night Football"game on Monday, December 8, 1980, the night John Lennon was killed. Goodrich relayed the news to Howard Cosell, who memorably informed the television audience of Lennon's death. Among the
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Monday Night Football (British TV programme)


Monday Night Football (MNF) (also known as Bet365 Monday Night Football for sponsorship reasons) is a British football programme on Sky Sports which broadcasts live English football from the Premier League. Sky television's acquisition of rights to broadcast live Premier League football from the start of the 1992–93 season saw them attempt innovations such as digital on-screen graphics (DOG) and Monday Night live games. The first Monday Night Football game broadcast was between Manchester City and Queens Park Rangers on 17 August 1992, which ended in a 1–1
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History of Monday Night Football


The following article details the history of "Monday Night Football", the weekly broadcast of National Football League games on U.S. television. During the early 1960s, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle envisioned the possibility of playing at least one game weekly during prime time that could be viewed by a greater television audience (while the NFL had scheduled Saturday night games on the DuMont Television Network in 1953 and 1954, poor ratings and the dissolution of DuMont led to those games being eliminated by the time CBS took over the rights in 1956).
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List of Monday Night Football results (1970–89)


The stadium observed a moment of silence to honor the fallen mayor. Between that and the national anthem a truck backed into the stadium flag pole sending it crashing to the ground. It was a large wooden pole near the southern end zone. It shocked the crowd who were already uneasy from a very tragic day in San Francisco. From 1978 to 1986, ABC would televise some Thursday and Sunday night games. Non-Monday games covered by ABC Monday Night Football team The September 4 opening game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New
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National Football League on television


both of their interconference home games aired in prime time instead, with the game against the Baltimore Ravens on Monday Night Football and the contest against the Cincinnati Bengals on NBC's Sunday Night Football, though CBS was scheduled to broadcast the Bengals-Cardinals game until it was moved to Sunday night (for the first time since ). Both of the Cardinals' interconference home games in 2016 were also in primetime, with the New England Patriots game on Sunday Night Football and the New York Jets game on Monday Night Football, though
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NFL on Westwood One Sports


Jim Fassel, who was 2008's analyst; James Lofton, who replaced Fassel in 2009 after he left for a head coaching job in the United Football League. Jason Taylor replaces Lofton starting with the 2017 season due to Lofton moving to CBS television. The "Monday Night Football" broadcast on Westwood One features its lead broadcast team, as the network has long considered Monday night to be its flagship NFL broadcast, even as the NFL now considers the Sunday night game (since 2006 when NBC launched their Sunday night television package
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List of Monday night National Football League games prior to 1970


Listed below are all professional American football regular season games played on Monday before the start of ABC's weekly "Monday Night Football" series. These include games televised by CBS and NBC on an experimental basis. These games were played in the late 1960s. The pre-1960s games were on Mondays either as special promotions or due to schedule conflicts. The primary reason that Monday games were much more rare before the 1960s was mainly because artificial lighting was not yet widespread or good enough to provide an acceptable view of the field for a
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Monday Night Miracle (American football)


unlike the 1994 game which featured the Jets failing to hold a double-digit (18) lead in the second half, it was the Dolphins who failed to hold the lead. The game is notable for having the second largest fourth-quarter comeback in NFL history and the largest comeback in Jets history. It was also voted the greatest game televised on ABC's "Monday Night Football", along with being #5 on NFL Top Ten's "Top Ten Comebacks". At the end of the third quarter with
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers


WOFL and WESH. "Monday Night Football" games on ESPN and Thursday night games on NFL Network are simulcast locally on WMOR-TV, who also previously carried the Bucs' "Sunday Night Football" games when they were televised on ESPN and TNT; previously, the Bucs' appearances on the cable networks were seen locally on WFLA-TV and WFTS. WFLA was the previous home to Buccaneers preseason games, where they have been televised from 2003 to 2010. At WFLA, Chris Myers was the play-by-
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's all-star game, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii on February 12. This marked the final season that ABC held the rights to televise "Monday Night Football" after thirty-six years of airing the series. When the TV contracts were renewed near the end of the season, the rights to broadcast "Monday Night Football" were awarded to Disney-owned corporate sibling ESPN. NBC bought the right to televise "Sunday Night Football", marking the first time that the network broadcast NFL games since Super
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Pro Football Hall of Fame Game


played on a Thursday (August 2). Come 2019, the game will be played on Thursday, (August 1). Unlike the majority of NFL preseason games, which air on local TV stations, the Hall of Fame Game airs nationwide. From 1999 to 2005, the game was held on Monday night, televised as part of ABC's "Monday Night Football" package. It had previously been held typically on Saturday afternoons, except from 1963 to 1965 on Sunday afternoons, televised as part of ABC's "
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package NFL Sunday Ticket (which is carried exclusively by DirecTV) in order to view games that are not shown in their region. Certain flagship games are also broadcast nationally on network television, including NBC's weekly "Sunday Night Football", as well as the three annual Thanksgiving Day games, and the entirety of the post-season. ESPN's "Monday Night Football", as well as selected "Thursday Night Football" games on NFL Network, are only televised nationally on pay television. In these cases, NFL
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History of Monday Night Football


An early bid by the league in 1964 to play on Friday nights was soundly defeated, with critics charging that such telecasts would damage the attendance at high school football games. Undaunted, Rozelle decided to experiment with the concept of playing on Monday night, scheduling the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions for a game on September 28, 1964. While the game was not televised, it drew a sellout crowd of 59,203 spectators to Tiger Stadium, the largest crowd ever to watch a professional football game in Detroit up to that point
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at the library and lowering men's grade point averages with each victory. Television and cable networks control the schedule of football games. ESPN broadcasts nationally televised college football games on Thursday nights each week, making it the college equivalent of the NFL's Monday Night Football. The energy and excitement of such an atmosphere generally benefits the home teams, which have a winning record on Thursday nights. The midweek games are scheduled with no consideration of academics, rest, and recovery for athletes and university logistical issues such as competition for parking
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Monday Night Football


ESPN extended its contract for the show for an additional eight seasons, giving it rights to the broadcasts until 2021. The new deal, valued around 15 billion, also gives ESPN rights to expanded highlights, international, and streaming rights. After 45 seasons, there have been over 700 games televised by "Monday Night Football". To avoid any scheduling unfairness where, just before the first playoff game, a team may have five days off and others six, there is no Monday night game during the final week of the
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of the Week"". Initially, the Monday night package was marketed to ABC affiliates; the idea being that ABC carried NFL football games on Monday nights in the fall and (starting in May ) Major League Baseball games on Monday nights in the spring and summer, stations would want the hockey telecasts to create a year-round Monday night sports block; however, very few ABC stations chose to pick up the package. In , ABC was contracted to televise Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Since the Finals
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NFL Network


well as one live Saturday night game during Week 16. As a result of the addition of these extra games, every NFL team now appears in at least one timeslot-exclusive nationally televised game (either a Thursday, Sunday, or Monday Night contest, a Thanksgiving game, or a 9:30 a.m ET London game). As with the games broadcast by ESPN's "Monday Night Football", the NFL Network telecasts are also aired on a designated broadcast television station in the primary markets of the participating teams, although prior
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2018 Kansas City Chiefs–Los Angeles Rams game


The 2018 Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Rams game was an American football game in the National Football League (NFL) between the visiting Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams on November 19, 2018. The game was a "Monday Night Football" game televised nationally on ESPN. The Rams won the game 54–51, with the Rams and Chiefs combining for 105 points, (21 scored by defenses) making it the highest scoring "Monday Night Football" game and the third highest scoring game in NFL history. The
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List of Monday Night Football results (1990–2009)


Beginning in the 1970 NFL season, the National Football League began scheduling a weekly regular season game on Monday night before a national television audience. From 1970–2005, the ABC television network carried these games, with the ESPN cable television network taking over beginning in September 2006. Listed below are games played from 1990 to 2009. Some stadiums and teams had multiple names throughout their appearances in the "MNF" package in this era. All names listed were seen in the package at least once in this era. First name listed is
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List of Monday Night Football results (2010–present)


Beginning in the 1970 NFL season, the National Football League began scheduling a weekly regular season game on Monday night before a national television audience. From 1970 to 2005, the ABC television network carried these games, with the ESPN cable television network taking over beginning in September 2006. Listed below are games played from 2010 to the most recent season. Some stadiums and teams had multiple names throughout their appearances in the "MNF" package in this era. All names listed were seen in the package at least once in this era
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List of Monday Night Football results (1970–89)


Beginning in the 1970 NFL season, the National Football League began scheduling a weekly regular season game on Monday night before a national television audience. From 1970 to 2005, the ABC television network carried these games, with the ESPN cable television network taking over beginning in September 2006. Listed below are games played from 1970 to 1989. Some stadiums and teams had multiple names throughout their appearances in the "MNF" package in this era. First name listed is the stadium/team's name heading into 1990. All names were
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Monday Night Football" broadcasts; this served as filler programming for the channel until the start of its Monday-night college basketball broadcasts. Although never explicitly announced, the league continued the moratorium on its blackout policy, ensuring all games would be televised in the market of their home teams regardless of ticket sales. Because of fog and smoke obstruction, NBC was forced to televise large portions of two of their "Sunday Night Football" games from the skycam angle. Positive reception led NBC to experiment with increased usage of the angle
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Monday Night Countdown


show on cable television. On occasion, the crew appeared on-site at the game, but for the most part the show was aired from the studios in Bristol, Connecticut. In 2006, the show began appearing at the "Monday Night Football" site live as the game moved to ESPN from ABC. Stuart Scott moved to host of "NFL Primetime" which precedes "Monday Night Countdown" and Chris Berman moved from "NFL Primetime" to "Monday Night Countdown" and was joined by returning analysts Tom Jackson
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List of Monday Night Football results (1990–2009)


Eve fell on a Monday, the matchup would feature two teams on the west coast. Postseason games covered by ABC Monday Night Football team During the October 14 game between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks, wide receiver Terrell Owens pulled out a Sharpie following a touchdown and autographed the football. At halftime of the October 28 game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, the last of the fourteen clues from the television series "Push, Nevada" was revealed. By taking the appropriate letters (5th, 1st
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Major League Baseball on cable television


key details of the agreement were: ESPN's Monday and Wednesday telecasts would be mostly nonexclusive, meaning the games also can be televised by each club's local broadcasters. Wednesday games will be blacked out in the teams' local markets (and anywhere their broadcasters reach), except if they would otherwise go untelevised. Monday games will usually see ESPN co-exist with local broadcasters. The Sunday games remain on ESPN only, and with ESPN gaining the rights to "Monday Night Football" telecasts, "Sunday Night Baseball"
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appear every week to offer analysis of the game ahead. The play-by-play role for CBS Radio Sports' coverage of "Sunday Night Football" was originally filled by Jack Buck, who called the initial Sunday night games in 1987. Jim Nantz took over for Buck, who was already calling "Monday Night Football" for the network, the following season and announced games until 1990 when he was moved to television. Nantz was replaced by Howard David for 1991 and continued through 1995, after which he replaced the
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WNDY-TV


(the station had been carrying ESPN's Colts game telecasts since it held rights to the "Sunday Night Football" package, which it lost to NBC in 2006, when ESPN took over rights to "Monday Night Football"). One notable exception to this occurred in October 2013, when WTHR (channel 13) carried an ESPN-televised Monday night game involving the Colts. The station also airs selected Ball State University men's basketball games as well as Mid-American Conference college football from ESPN Plus. In March
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National Football League Christmas games


was played in when the New Orleans Saints defeated the Dallas Cowboys. In , Christmas Eve landed on a Monday. This proved especially problematic; the league's television contract with ESPN requires the league to provide 17 "Monday Night Football" games over the course of the first 16 weeks of the season (the league no longer schedules a Monday night game for the final weekend of the season, for multiple reasons). In seasons past, the league compensated for an instance like this by giving ESPN or ABC an extra Saturday
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List of Monday Night Football results (1970–89)


attempts in the extra period, one of them from extra-point distance. It was also the first overtime game on a Monday night since Howard Cosell announced the death of John Lennon in 1980. Both of the Redskins' regular season losses during the 1983 season came on Monday Night (Week 1 to Dallas; Week 7 to Green Bay) by a margin of 1 point in each game. From 1983 to 1986 in addition to some Thursday and Sunday night games, ABC would also televise a Friday night game. Non
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History of Monday Night Football


. Two years later, Rozelle would build on this success as the NFL began a four-year experiment of playing on Monday night, scheduling one game in prime time on CBS during the 1966 and 1967 seasons, and two contests during each of the next two years. NBC followed suit in 1968 and 1969 with games involving American Football League teams. During subsequent negotiations on a new television contract that would begin in 1970 (coinciding with a merger between the NFL and AFL), Rozelle concentrated on signing a weekly Monday night
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History of the National Football League on television


for all AFC teams. For interconference games, CBS would broadcast them if the visiting team was from the NFC, and NBC if the visitors were from the AFC. The two networks had a rotation policy for the Super Bowl. ABC also agreed to televise one regular season game per week on Monday night. ABC aired its first edition of "Monday Night Football" on September 21, 1970. "MNF" pushed the limits of football coverage with its halftime highlights segment, occasional banter from Howard Cosell and Don Meredith,
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History of Monday Night Football


to cover the game, expanded the regular two-man broadcasting booth to three, and used extensive graphic design within the show as well as instant replay. Prior to 1978, Monday night games were not scheduled in the final week (Week 14) of the regular season. From 1974 to 1977, a Saturday night game was scheduled for Week 14 and televised live by ABC in lieu of a game on Monday night. Looking for a lightning rod to garner attention, Arledge hired controversial New York City sportscaster Howard Cosell as
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National Football League on Canadian television


As of the 2017 NFL season, CTV and TSN broadcast Sunday games. "Monday Night Football" airs exclusively on TSN. TSN and CTV Two own rights to "Sunday Night Football" and "Thursday Night Football". RDS carries games in the French language from all timeslots. U.S. network television feeds may also be available, often from multiple markets, on cable and satellite (and via terrestrial broadcast in the border lands); all games are subject to simultaneous substitution. As the premier rights-holder of NFL Game
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TNT Sunday Night Football results (1990–1997)


editions of the World Series featured the Turner-owned Atlanta Braves). Following the 1997 season, ESPN would broadcast Sunday night NFL games for the whole season. This particular arrangement between ESPN and the National Football League would continue until the end of the 2005 season. Since that time, NBC (who last broadcast NFL games the same year that TNT last broadcast them, 1997) has been the television home of Sunday night games. Meanwhile, ESPN replaced as the broadcaster of Monday night games in 2006. The Phoenix/
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Monday Night Football


"Monday Night Football" telecast on ABC was the Miami Dolphins' victory over the previously undefeated Chicago Bears on December 2, , which drew a national Nielsen rating of 29.6 and a share of 46. ABC's lowest-rated "MNF" game was the St. Louis Rams' defeat of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on October 18, , which drew a 7.7 rating. During the 1995–1996 television season, "Monday Night Football" averaged a 17.1 household rating. Its main competitor, "Murphy Brown" on CBS, averaged
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National Football League on Canadian television


Pass in Canada, DAZN is the only place to watch all preseason, regular-season (including Thursday night, Sunday night and Monday night games) and playoff games, plus exclusive access to RedZone. DAZN also streams LIVE 24/7 access to NFL Network, as well as complete coverage of marquee events like the NFL Draft and Combine. Archived Super Bowl and NFL playoff games are also available on DAZN. Craig Media (including the now-City stations in Winnipeg and Alberta) owned the rights to "Monday Night Football"
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Monday Night Baseball


pair being joined in 1973 and 1974 by various guest commentators from both in and out of the baseball world. Jim Simpson and Maury Wills called the secondary backup games. Joe Garagiola hosted NBC's pregame show, "The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola", and teamed with Gowdy to call the games in 1975. ABC would pick up the television rights for "Monday Night Baseball" games in the following year. Just like with "Monday Night Football", ABC brought in the concept of the three-man-booth
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National Football League on Canadian television


longtime broadcaster of National Football League football games in Canada, an association that ended in 2007 when CTV outbid Global for the NFL broadcast package. TSN airs ESPN original programming, including "Sunday NFL Countdown" and "Monday Night Football". In addition to "Monday Night Football", TSN broadcasts "NBC Sunday Night Football". Since the 2007 NFL season, it produces Sunday afternoon telecasts for CTV, although the feed is taken from CBS or Fox. In Canada, the established sports channel TSN held the rights to
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List of Monday Night Football results (1970–89)


, the game was moved to Monday night, and was played simultaneously with the Browns–Rams game. Coincidentally, the Browns had been slated to host the Broncos in the canceled Monday night game (in a rematch of "The Drive"). The November 30 Raiders/Seahawks game marked the memorable "Monday Night Football" debut of Bo Jackson, with his 91-yard touchdown run. Postseason games covered by ABC Monday Night Football team The September 12 game between the Cowboys and the Cardinals was the first game the Cardinals played
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Steve Levy


been with ESPN since August 1, 1993. At ESPN, he usually works on "SportsCenter", and has hosted the late night edition on Monday night during the NFL season, following Monday Night Football. He covered NHL regular season and playoff games before the network lost the rights to televise the league's games. He also previously covered the network's college football coverage for four seasons, 1999-2002, returning to this role in 2016. He also served as a fill-in play-by-play commentator
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2006 NFL season


ESPN became the new home of "Monday Night Football", replacing sister network American Broadcasting Company, who chose to opt out of broadcasting league games. Meanwhile, CBS and Fox renewed their television contracts to the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference packages, respectively. This was the first season that the NFL used a “flexible-scheduling” for the last few weeks of the season, allowing the league flexibility in selecting games to air on Sunday night, in order to feature the current hottest, streaking teams.
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History of Monday Night Football


" name and heritage, NBC (like ABC) is a broadcast network, whereas ESPN is a cable channel not freely available to all Americans, though per a cause in the NFL's broadcasting rules, many ESPN games air on a participating broadcast television station in the home markets of each team to allow viewers who do not subscribe to a pay television provider to view the game. For that reason, NBC gained rights to the Thursday night season-opening game, the Wild Card doubleheader that has traditionally aired on ABC,
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History of Monday Night Football


of famed Beatle John Lennon's assassination, news that stunned a nationwide audience. The NFL's television contract renewal in 1982 also put ABC in the Super Bowl rotation for the first time, giving it the broadcast rights to Super Bowl XIX in 1985. A second renewal of the television contract gave them the rights to Super Bowl XXII in 1988. From 1983 to 1986, ABC also aired a Friday night game in the final week (Week 16) of the regular season, in addition to the normal Monday night game.
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History of the National Hockey League on United States television


games typically aired on Monday nights (beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET) or Saturday afternoons. The package was offered to local stations free of charge. Profits would be derived from the advertising, which was about evenly split between the network and the local station. The Monday night games were often billed as "The NHL Game of the Week". The league hoped that the habit millions of viewers had of watching sports on Monday nights during the National Football League season would carry over to hockey in winter. Since ABC, which
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History of Monday Night Football


history of cable television. ESPN's October 23, 2006 game telecast between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys drew the largest audience in the history of cable television at the time, besting the previous mark set by a 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot. An average of 16,028,000 viewers (12.8 rating) watched as the Giants defeated the Cowboys, 36–22. ESPN's "Monday Night Football" telecasts now account for eight of the ten highest-rated programs in cable television
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BT Sport ESPN


Association. On 29 March 2010, it was announced that Monday Night Football would air on ESPN. Starting on 14 September, the sports broadcaster will carry live coverage of all of the National Football League's Monday night matches, with coverage repeated the following day. Every week, ESPN will also televise the 90-minute pre-game programme, Monday Night Countdown, in which host Chris Berman previews the evening's action. In addition, to mark the 30th anniversary of ESPN, the channel has been showing the ESPN Films' 30
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History of the National Football League on television


devices. Verizon's NFL feeds are limited to Sunday and Monday nights, plus the locally telecast game in the phone's location (determined by the phone's GPS locator); Verizon offers Thursday night games but will only stream those games over a mobile data connection, whereas other games streamed through Verizon can use wi-fi. The "Thursday Night Football" contract, uniquely among the league's television packages, has a separate digital contract allowing games to be carried freely to all Internet devices since 2016. Twitter carried the
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Monday Night Football


on ABC, as well as a share of the rotating rights to the Super Bowl, was also given to NBC. On April 22, 2014, the NFL announced that it had exercised an option in ESPN's recent contract extension for "Monday Night Football" rights to air a first-round Wild Card playoff game on the channel after the conclusion of the 2014 season. This was the first time that an NFL playoff game was ever broadcast exclusively on cable television in the United States, in lieu of any of the
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History of the National Football League on television


to a marketing empire. When ESPN first started televising NFL games in 1987, it only broadcast Sunday night games during the second half of the season. Meanwhile, ABC, CBS, and NBC maintained their rights to "Monday Night Football", the NFC, and the AFC, respectively. By 1990, Turner's TNT network started to broadcast Sunday night games for the first half of the season. The combined 1990 contracts with ABC, CBS, ESPN, NBC, and TNT totaled $3.6 billion ($900 million
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Arena Football League on ESPN


of "NFL Live"'s Trey Wingo and Mark Schlereth with the third being Ron Jaworski and Merril Hoge. On May 2007, Mark Jones replaced Jaworski, who focuses on his new "Monday Night Football" role. Jay Rothman, producer of "Monday Night Football", and Bryan Ryder will also produce the Monday night Arena Football games on ESPN2. The announcements were made on January 16, 2007. The other play-by-play announcer used on playoff games is Bob Wischusen. Pasch, Wischusen, and Bentley
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NFL Kickoff Game


the NFL Kickoff game. Later in the year, however, the decision was reversed, and instead a 10-second broadcast delay was put in place. 2006: With the change in television contracts, the Kickoff Game was moved to NBC, who held the rights to "Sunday Night Football". The game opposite the first weekend of World Series games was once again removed to compensate. (The Monday night game at the end of the season, however, was not revived. Instead, after an impromptu experiment in 2005,
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List of Monday Night Football results (1990–2009)


could be disadvantaged by potentially having only four days between their final regular season game and a playoff game. Also, the ratings for the last game of the regular season were often low, and the game usually had no playoff meaning (the most likely reason for the scheduling move). To compensate for losing the opening night game (which was successful enough to be upgraded from cable to network television after only one year), ESPN got the Week 17 game that used to be on Monday Night, and aired it on
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National Football League Christmas games


or Thursday night game later in the season, but this was no longer possible because the new television contract gave the rights to those games to NFL Network. Thus, with the league already stretching its limits by placing a Monday night doubleheader on opening weekend, this meant that every available Monday night would have to air at least one game, even if it were Christmas Eve. To ease the issue, the game was scheduled between two Western teams, the Denver Broncos at the San Diego Chargers, so that the game could
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History of Monday Night Football


games, in which "ESPN's Sunday Night" NFL crew of Mike Patrick and Joe Theismann presided over that telecast. However, the original crew for one of the two Wild Card Playoff games from 1990 to 1995 consisted of Brent Musburger and Dick Vermeil (both of whom did college football broadcasts for ABC during those two seasons). From 1990 until 2005, ABC's "MNF" television package included seventeen (eighteen in 1992 and 1993) regular season games (from 2003 until 2005, a Thursday game and 16 Mondays
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History of the National Hockey League on United States television


at that time carried "Monday Night Football" would also carry Monday-night Major League Baseball games during the 1976 season, the league tried to market this package to ABC affiliates in the hopes they'd pick it up and establish a year-round sports franchise on Monday nights. However, not very many stations picked up the package, and only a couple were ABC affiliates. During the 1975–76 season, the NHL Network showed selected games from the NHL Super Series as well as some playoff games. During the 1976–77 season
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National Football League on television


time in preparation, instead of the possibility of one or two teams having a shorter preparation for their playoff game if they were picked to play on Saturday, instead of Sunday. This scenario, in which a team finishing its season on Monday night had a playoff game the following Saturday, never occurred. Since 2006, ESPN has opened the season with a "Monday Night Football" doubleheader, with a 7:00 p.m. game and a 10:30 p.m. both shown in their entirety nationwide. ESPN2 or ESPNEWS (only in 2012 because ESPN2
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ESPN Sunday Night Football


"Sunday NFL Countdown". While ABC had been airing occasional Sunday night NFL games (usually one per season) under its "Monday Night Football" banner since 1978, the concept of playing a regular series of Sunday night professional football games on ESPN was originally a concept designed for the United States Football League. As part of the abortive 1986 USFL season, ESPN was to carry a weekly Sunday night game throughout the fall season. As part of its new television package in 1987, the NFL granted ESPN the rights to
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Monday Night Football


possible. This was a move which would ultimately mean the end of "Monday Night Football" on ABC (cable games are protected from the NFL's flexible scheduling rule adopted for the 2006–07 season; the new rule applies only to CBS, Fox, and NBC's Sunday night games). The league currently has no interest in expanding flexible scheduling to include "Monday Night Football", citing the logistical issues of moving games back and forth between Sundays and Mondays. The franchise with the most Monday night appearances is the Miami
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NFL Kickoff Game


. In order to do so, ESPN eliminated its traditional late-October Thursday night game (held the weekend of Games 1 and 2 of the World Series), and replaced it with the opening night kickoff game. Because of the success of the first game, the rights to televise both the Kickoff Game and the pregame concert were transferred immediately after the season to ABC as part of their "Monday Night Football" package. In 2006, NBC acquired the television rights to the Kickoff Game as part of their "Sunday
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Monday Night Football


Dolphins. The San Francisco 49ers won their record 48th Monday Night game with a 28–0 win over the Los Angeles Rams on September 12, 2016. The most common "Monday Night Football" pairings are Broncos vs. Raiders (set to meet for a 19th time in ) and Cowboys vs. Redskins (17 match-ups as of ). The defunct Candlestick Park in San Francisco currently holds the record for hosting the most "Monday Night Football" games, including its 36th and final Monday night game on December 23, 2013.
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of a resurgent ABC prime time entertainment schedule during the 2004–05 season, particularly on Sunday evening with "Desperate Housewives"; thus ABC would be unable to satisfy the league's reported preference for a Sunday night game on broadcast television as opposed to Monday. Because of that, "Monday Night Football" moved from ABC to ESPN, which are both owned by The Walt Disney Company. The cable network paid $1.1 billion per year from 2006 to 2014 for the rights. Unlike the broadcast networks, however, ESPN can generate
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List of Monday Night Football results (2010–present)


Football history featured the San Francisco 49ers beating the St. Louis Rams in Week 6. Due to a winter storm in Buffalo that blocked access to Ralph Wilson Stadium, a game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills that was originally scheduled for November 23 was postponed to Monday night and was moved to Ford Field in Detroit. That game was broadcast locally on CBS affiliates in the New York City and Buffalo television markets. ESPN aired the regularly-scheduled game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New Orleans Saints. This was
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History of Monday Night Football


all games through the end of the 1972 season; beginning in 1973, home games could be televised if tickets were sold out 72 hours before kickoff). One of the trademarks of "Monday Night Football" is a music cue used during the opening teasers of each program, a Johnny Pearson-composition titled "Heavy Action", originally a KPM production library cue (and also used as the theme music for the BBC programme "Superstars"), which "MNF" began using in 1975. That success would continue
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a 12.3 rating. The highest-rated "Monday Night Football" game on ESPN, and the highest-rated program in U.S. cable television history at that time, was the Minnesota Vikings' defeat of the Green Bay Packers 30–23 on October 5, , with a rating of 15.3. The game featured the much-hyped matchup of Vikings quarterback Brett Favre facing his longtime former Green Bay team. In a press release, ESPN noted that the telecast "was watched by more than 16.8 million people. The previous record was
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New York Jets


analyst. Any preseason games not nationally televised are shown on WCBS-TV. SportsNet New York, which serves as the official home of the Jets, airs over 250 hours of "exclusive, in depth" material on the team in high definition. Monday Night Football games are televised in a simulcast with ESPN by either sister station WABC-TV, or WPIX-TV if WABC chooses to waive the game to another station to carry regularly scheduled programming. Thursday Night Football carriage of a Jets game is incumbent on the producing
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Monday Night Soccer


Monday Night Soccer is a former football television programme shown on RTÉ Two each Monday evening during the football season. Presented by Peter Collins, he was usually joined by two guests, like manager Damien Richardson and former Millwall striker Richard Sadlier. Broadcast weekly on Monday evenings live from RTÉ studio 5, every League of Ireland Premier Division game was shown. In July and August editions of the show, it showed UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches, involving participating League of Ireland clubs. TV3 owned the rights to a long-
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2018 NFL season


This includes "cross-flexing" (switching) Sunday afternoon games between CBS and Fox before or during the season (regardless of the conference of the visiting team). NBC will continue to air "Sunday Night Football", the annual Kickoff game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN will continue to air "Monday Night Football" and the Pro Bowl. CBS will broadcast Super Bowl LIII. On January 31, the NFL announced that Fox had acquired the broadcast television rights to the "Thursday Night Football" package
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WPVI-TV


television station in the Delaware Valley. From 1977 until 2015, WPVI aired the Pennsylvania Lottery live nighttime television drawings, which occur nightly at 6:59 p.m. ET; the Powerball drawings on Wednesdays and Saturdays and the Tuesday and Friday Mega Millions drawings air during the 11 p.m. newscasts on those nights (those television drawing rights moved to WTXF-TV). As a result of ABC losing "Monday Night Football" to now-sister network ESPN in the 2000s, WPVI has aired the Philadelphia Eagles' preseason and Monday night games,
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National Football League television blackout policies


games. For instance, the league will not subject its "RedZone" channel to any blackouts. In addition, complete live games will be made available for free online on the Monday (except "Monday Night Football"), Tuesday and Wednesday following the game, if the game is blacked out, using the league's "Game Rewind" package. Critics claim that these blackout policies are largely ineffective in creating sold out, filled stadiums. They contend that there are other factors that prevent sellouts, such as high ticket
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Al Michaels


'm home and I'm staying home." Plans were for Michaels to be teamed with Joe Theismann (who would be coming over from "Sunday Night Football") on the Monday night telecasts. At the time, then-ABC Television President Alex Wallau said, "For 26 years Al has played a pivotal role here at ABC Sports, and for 17 of those years he's been the face and voice synonymous with television's most successful sports franchise, "Monday Night Football"... It's Al's outstanding play
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History of Monday Night Football


. Despite high ratings, ABC lost millions of dollars on televising the games during the late 1990s and 2000s. The NFL also indicated that it wanted Sunday night to be the new night for its marquee game, because more people tend to watch television on Sundays, and games held on that night would be more conducive to flexible scheduling, a method by which some of the NFL's best games could be moved from the afternoon to the evening on Sunday on short notice. Given these factors, as well as the rise of
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National Football League on television


. In addition, there are usually single nationally televised games each on Thursday night, Sunday night, and Monday night. These primetime games are broadcast across the country over one national over-the-air broadcast or cable network, where there are no regional restrictions, nor any other competing NFL contest. All playoff games, the Super Bowl, and the Pro Bowl are nationally televised on either Saturday or Sunday in January and early February, and either in the afternoon or in primetime. Scheduling during the NFL preseason is more
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List of Monday Night Football results (2010–present)


poor and moved the game to Los Angeles. This was the first Monday Night game in Los Angeles since 1991, as well as the highest scoring game in MNF history. Monday Night Football crew called the Wild Card Game Kickoff Started at 4:35pm Colts vs Texans and 2019 Pro Bowl on Sunday At 3:00pm that made the Second in NFL Career. This season will mark the 50th season of Monday Night Football. There will be a rematch of the very first MNF game, during Week 2, as the new-look Browns face
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Los Angeles Chargers


Games in which the Chargers host an NFC team on Sunday afternoons are aired over KTTV in Los Angeles and KSWB in San Diego (along with "Thursday Night Football" games under Fox's and NFL Network's packages); if a Sunday night game is televised, KNBC in Los Angeles and KNSD in San Diego will air the games, through parent network NBC's "Sunday Night Football" coverage. KABC, KCBS and KFMB are also the designated local simulcasters of the Chargers' appearances on either ESPN's "Monday Night
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Monday Night Football


in Denmark, and in some other regions of the world outside the U.S. on ESPN International. A Spanish-language version airs on ESPN Deportes in the U.S. and on ESPN International in Latin America, while a Portuguese version airs on ESPN Brasil. Per an NFL broadcasting policy intended to allow those who do not subscribe to cable or satellite television to see games televised by a pay television network, the games are also made available on over-the-air television stations in each participating team's local market. In 2011,
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Pro Football Hall of Fame Game


Wide World of Sports" package (still using the "MNF" crew). In 1998, the game was put in the "MNF" package, and played on a Saturday night, which served as a test run for the move to Monday night. Starting in 2006, the game moved to NBC as part of the re-launched "Sunday Night Football" package (which replaced "MNF" as the NFL's flagship primetime broadcast that season). Except in 2007 (where the game was televised by NFL
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NFL Classics


NFL Classics is a series of videotaped rebroadcasts of National Football League games that air on the NFL Network. The show airs weekly during the offseason and also occasionally during the NFL season. As of the 2010, the series airs on Monday night while Super Bowl Classics airs on Friday night. The program, the first such series to air on any American television network, premiered on May 10, 2007 with a re-air of the Chicago Bears' "Monday Night Football" comeback victory over the Arizona Cardinals in 2006.
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Monday Night Football


more than 13.6 million viewers for 2008's Monday night game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys. This was subsequently beaten by ESPN's coverage of the 2011 BCS National Championship Game. ESPN also stated that the game drew the highest rating in the network's 30-year history. The 15.3 rating beat the 14.4 for a Bears-Vikings game on Dec. 6, 1987, during ESPN's first season of televising NFL games". ESPN's lowest-rated "MNF" game to date was the New York Giants' defeat of
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Pete Rozelle


pre-merger NFL teams forming the National Football Conference (NFC). By 1970, the newly-reconstituted NFL stood at 26 teams. In 1970, Rozelle proposed his concept, "Monday Night Football", to Roone Arledge, then the head of the ABC television network. After selling his idea to ABC, Monday Night Football premiered in September 1970 with the Cleveland Browns against the New York Jets; the Browns won the game, 31-21. The program is still broadcast today (it moved to ESPN in
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Monday Night Countdown


Football" from 2006-2010. Additionally, "Monday Night Countdown" debuted a new logo resembling its other NFL-themed studio-show properties, along with a new graphics package that is also used for "MNF". With the exception of Chris Berman (who remained in the Bristol studio), the entire "Monday Night Countdown" crew were moved to the "Monday Night Football" game site, joining on-site host Suzy Kolber. Meanwhile, Berman was joined in the Bristol studio each week by analysts
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National Football League on television


. In , the Atlanta Falcons had both of their interconference home games aired in prime time instead, with the game against the New England Patriots on NBC's Sunday Night Football and the contest against the New York Jets on Monday Night Football. The Atlanta situation affected CBS affiliate WGCL-TV, which is the lowest-rated of the major network affiliates in the Atlanta market and has struggled to gain traction in the market since becoming the market's CBS affiliate following television realignment of the mid-1990s. In , the Arizona Cardinals had
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List of Tennessee Titans broadcasters


’ appearances on ESPN’s Monday Night Football. Since the start of the 1998 NFL Season, the CBS Television Network is in charge of the AFC road games and most all-AFC games on Sunday afternoons. Anytime the Titans play host to an NFC team at Nissan Stadium, the team’s home venue, the game(s) are aired on Fox. In the event of a Sunday night game assigned to the Titans regular season schedule, NBC provides nationwide coverage for the "NBC Sunday Night Football" games, including WSMV,
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Monday Night Football (British TV programme)


League games. "Monday Night Football" returned from the 2010–11 season after Sky regained the rights to Monday night Premier League games. The games broadcast kick off at 8:00 pm on Monday nights. The show also started broadcasting in high-definition. Due to the structure of the broadcasting packages for the 2010–13 seasons, Sky broadcast a minimum of 12 live Premier League games on Monday nights. Before the departures of Richard Keys and Andy Gray, the programme had a different appearance to Super Sunday, presented by Keys and Gray from
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National Football League on television


on Sunday afternoons are televised on CBS and Fox, which primarily carry games of AFC and NFC teams respectively (the conference of the away team determines the broadcaster of an inter-conference game). Nationally televised regular season games on Sunday and Monday nights are aired on NBC and ESPN, respectively, while NBC, FOX and NFL Network share Thursday night games during the regular season. During the postseason, ESPN airs one game, NBC airs two, while CBS and Fox air the rest of the AFC and NFC games,
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2015 World Series


nights, generally big days of television viewing, where Fox's telecast would face stiff competition from "Thursday Night Football", "ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime", various popular primetime entertainment shows, and "Monday Night Football". Game 1 of the World Series averaged a 4.6 rating on Fox, making it the most watched Game 1 since the 2010 World Series. Game 2 then had a 3.9 rating, up 24 percent from last season's Game 2. The series also recorded the most watched Game 3 since 2009
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List of Monday Night Football results (1970–89)


up breaking his leg on the play. The December 2 game between the Bears and the Dolphins, when the Dolphins put an end to the Bears' bid to match their undefeated season in 1972, was and still is the highest rated game in "Monday Night Football" history. Non-Monday games covered by ABC Monday Night Football team During this season, "MacGyver" began a six-year run as the program's lead-in – the longest lasting such program in history. The September 8 game between the
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List of Monday Night Football results (1970–89)


's announcement of the murder of John Lennon with three seconds left in the fourth quarter. ABC News' "Nightline" provided live coverage of Lennon's death shortly after the conclusion of the game. Non-Monday games covered by ABC Monday Night Football team The December 7 game between the Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers would mark the final Monday night game played in Oakland prior to the Raiders' move to Los Angeles. The next Monday night game played in Oakland would be held in 1996; one year after the Raiders'
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NBC Sunday Night Football


NBC Sunday Night Football (abbreviated as SNF) is a weekly television broadcast of National Football League (NFL) games on NBC in the United States. It began airing on August 6, 2006 with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, which opened that year's preseason. NBC took over the rights to the Sunday prime time game telecasts from ESPN, which carried the broadcasts from 1987 to 2005 (concurrently with NBC assuming the rights to Sunday evening regular-season games, ESPN took over the broadcast rights to "Monday
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MRB Productions


for three Emmy awards in 2004 for their Monday Night Football Opens and won the Emmy for "Outstanding Live Sports Series" for Monday Night Football. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominated MRB Productions for three Emmy Awards in 2003, including the award for "Outstanding Opening/Tease" with Monday Night Football’s "The Pitch" featuring Dennis Hopper and won an Emmy for "Outstanding Production Design/Art Direction" for their Monday Night Football tease. Source Creative, "The Whole Blooming Brady Bunch" IMDB Credits
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List of Monday Night Football results (1970–89)


-Monday games covered by ABC Monday Night Football team Postseason games covered by ABC Monday Night Football team The September 19 Thursday night game is memorable for Bears QB Jim McMahon's third quarter performance. Bears coach Mike Ditka elected not to start McMahon because of various ailments keeping him out of practice all week. ABC cameras kept showing McMahon begging Ditka to put him in the game. Finally, with the Vikings leading 17–9, McMahon entered the game and threw a 70-yard TD to Willie Gault on his first snap. The Bears immediately
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2011 Detroit Lions season


straight road win. Ironically, their last game at Dallas saw the Lions lose their franchise-record 26th straight road game. In week 5, the Lions hosted a nationally televised primetime NFC North Division duel against the Chicago Bears. It was the first ever "Monday Night Football" game at Ford Field, the first "MNF" appearance for the Lions since 2001, and the first Monday night game in the city of Detroit since 1974. Neither team scored in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Lions
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Dallas Cowboys


star" at the 50-yard line was unveiled for the first time; however, the Cowboys lost in the final seconds, 33–31. The Cowboys got their first regular season home win on September 28, 2009. They beat the Carolina Panthers 21–7 with 90,588 in attendance. The game was televised on ESPN's "Monday Night Football" and marked a record 42nd win for the Cowboys on "Monday Night Football". On July 25, 2013, the Cowboys announced that AT&T would be taking over the rights to the name of
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National Football League on television


the 1994 NFC and AFC Wild Card Games), and in 2006, 2012, and 2017 (the final weekend of the 2005, 2011, and 2016 regular seasons), with scheduling likely for 2023. Between 1970 and 1977, and again since 2003, there has been no Monday night game during the last week of the season. From 1978 until 2002, a season-ending Monday night game was scheduled. The 2003 revision permits the NFL to have all eight teams involved in the Wild Card playoffs to have equal
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List of Monday Night Football results (1970–89)


The final Monday Night Football game of the season offered one of the least attractive contests in the six-year history of the program: The 1–11 San Diego Chargers hosted the 3–9 New York Jets, with the Chargers pulling an upset 24–16 victory. This was the first season that the Rams did not appear in one of the final two games of the season. The Rams played at home in the final Monday night game four of the first five seasons of Monday Night Football. Nevertheless, the Rams did play in the final
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List of Monday Night Football results (1990–2009)


Broncos marked the 500th Monday Night game. In commemoration, ABC used various themes and images of varied opens during commercial bumpers. Postseason games covered by ABC Monday Night Football team Under a new NFL policy, the NFL officially adopted a Thursday night game to open the season (something that was done for the first time the previous season), and no Monday night game in Week 17. The change was designed to maximize opportunities for scheduling between Week 17 and the opening week of the playoffs; in this way, no team
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Monday Night Football


regular season. From 2003 to 2005, one game was played on Thursday and another Monday under the "Monday Night Football" banner. Starting in 2006, when the series moved to cable, two games are played on the opening Monday night to capitalize on fan interest during "NFL Kickoff Weekend". Monday night games early in the season are often highly anticipated since records are new, teams usually are showcasing fresh talent and potential, and storylines coming into the season are often played out as fans try to see if these
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Doubleheader (television)


features a doubleheader on "Monday Night Football" (which moved from ABC to ESPN concurrent with the change), with the late-evening game involving two West Coast teams. This alleviates a quirk in the NFL television contract where there is no Monday game in the final week of the regular season in order to allow all playoff teams to have an equal number of days off between the final regular season and first playoff game. A daytime doubleheader occurred on October 26, 2014, when Fox was given the rights to broadcast
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History of Monday Night Football


's ending: During its final NFL television contract, ABC was awarded the telecasts to Super Bowl XXXIV, Super Bowl XXXVII and Super Bowl XL. With the end of ABC's contract, the Super Bowl XL broadcast was the network's final NFL telecast until 2016, when they simulcasted ESPN's Wild Card game production. To replace "Monday Night Football," ABC turned its series of primetime college football specials, which had run until 1975 and again from 1990 to 1993 and from 1996 onward, into a regular series.
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WWJ-TV


replaced WWJ-TV as the flagship of the Detroit Lions Television Network) beginning with the 2011 season. WWJ-TV, as per CBS's contract, broadcasts Detroit Lions regular season games when the team is hosting an AFC opponent, including the traditional Thanksgiving Day game on even-numbered years. WWJ-TV also broadcasts the Lions' ESPN "Monday Night Football" and NFL Network "Thursday Night Football" games, resulting in CBS' entire primetime lineup being moved to WKBD-TV for the night. As per
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