query: who does the intro for monday night football

pos: Monday Night Football itself last hosted a Monday Night Football game in 1985) due to the poor field conditions at the former. The game would be the highest scoring game in MNF history, with the Rams defeating the Chiefs by a score of 54–51. Hank Williams Jr. reworked his country music hit "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" to be included in the telecast's introduction as "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night" (the original introduction music was an organ-based piece called "Score", written by Charles Fox and recorded by Bob's Band). In addition, Edd Kalehoff modernized the classic

pos: History of Monday Night Football e-mails, I have made my decision... By pulling my opening October 3, [ESPN] stepped on the toes of the First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore me, my song, and "All My Rowdy Friends" are out of here. It's been a great run." "MNF" was absent an opening sequence from Week 4 through the end of that season. In 2017, ESPN re-hired Hank Williams Jr. for the intro. 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

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Hill announced that she would no longer sing the intro song for "Sunday Night Football". The use of the reworked Joan Jett song is another similarity to ABC's "Monday Night Football" coverage. From 1989 to 2011 and again beginning in 2017, Hank Williams, Jr. opens "MNF" with a reworking of his song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" entitled "All My Rowdy Friends Are Back for Monday Night (Are You Ready for Some Football?)". On October 7, 2012, the Soul Rebels Brass Band had a featured performance on "Sunday Night Football", performing the show's theme song. It was

neg: Monday Night Football "Heavy Action" theme in 1989. For ABC's last MNF game in 2005, Williams Jr.'s rendition of "Turn Out the Lights, The Party's Over", closed the broadcast. Prior to 1997, "Monday Night Football" had a limited graphics package. A CGI-based intro began being used in 1984, with on-screen graphics still limited to basic text. In 1988, the entire graphics package was updated significantly to be more in line with the rest of ABC Sports' presentations. That year, it introduced the "clashing helmets" intro, with on-screen graphics consisting of italicized text underlined in red. It was updated in 1994, the year the

neg: Monday Night Football (UK TV programme) Jones also took over as anchor presenter from Chamberlin who had left Sky to take over ITV's horse racing coverage. Monday Night Football (UK 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

neg: Monday Night Football on Triple M Gould, who was "holding them back" with his "negativity and constant references to 90s sitcom Seinfeld". Gould had left "Monday Night Football on Triple M" on his own terms weeks earlier. Andrew Johns voluntarily stood down from his duties on 14 June 2010, following his resignation from the NSW Blues coaching staff in the wake of the Timana Tahu racism saga. He returned the following week, speaking openly about the subject for the first time. Monday Night Football on Triple M Monday Night Football on Triple M broadcasts each Monday night NRL game, ever since its most recent inception in

neg: Monday Night Countdown over Scott's role permanently as an on-site host. She was previously a sideline reporter for "Monday Night 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 who work or had previously worked at ESPN. However, Berman

neg: Pardon the Interruption in character on PTI's intro. Kornheiser and Wilbon appeared as themselves on "PTI" in the 2004 film "Mr. 3000", including doing a Role Play segment with Kornheiser posing as Stan Ross (Bernie Mac) at one point. On February 8, 2006, it was announced that Tony Kornheiser would join Mike Tirico and Joe Theismann in the broadcast booth during Monday Night Football beginning in the 2006 NFL season. Kornheiser continued to host PTI, and Wilbon joined him on the road as they broadcast PTI each Monday from the site of the MNF game, and there has also been an extra PTI

neg: Theme music such as football (The "Match of the Day" theme), cricket ("Soul Limbo" by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, "Soul Limbo"), motor racing (Roger Barsotti's "Motor Sport" and the bassline from Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain"), tennis (Keith Mansfield's "Light and Tuneful"), snooker ("Drag Racer" by the Doug Wood Band), skiing ("Pop Goes Bach", the theme to Ski Sunday) and gaelic games ("Jägerlatein" by James Last). Themes in the United States that have become associated with a sport include Johnny Pearson's "Heavy Action" (used for many years as an intro to "Monday Night Football"), "Roundball Rock" (composed by John Tesh as the

neg: Monday Night Football (UK TV programme) Monday Night Football (UK 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 draw. To give the broadcasts a

neg: Monday Night Football 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-rated, particularly among male viewers. "MNF" is preceded on air by "Monday Night Countdown".

neg: History of the National Football League on television in selecting games in the latter part of the season. ABC did not have the right to be flexible with their "Monday Night Football" schedule and picked matchups based on a team's record in the previous season (as NBC does), which often led to teams with losing records playing each other on Monday night later in the season. The moves were intended to break NBC out of its ratings slump; however, at one point in the last decade, this did not happen, and although "NBC Sunday Night Football" had been (and continues to be) the network's top rated program and

neg: History of Monday Night Football and Meredith ended up announcing the rest of the contest. In 1971, Frank Gifford became available after his contract with CBS Sports concluded; Arledge brought him to ABC to serve as play-by-play announcer, replacing Jackson (who returned to broadcasting college football for the network, which he continued to do for the next 35 seasons). The former New York Giant had been an NFL analyst for CBS during the 1960s but had never called play-by-play prior to joining "Monday Night Football". In that capacity for "Monday Night Football" from 1971 to 1985, Gifford was often criticized for his see-no-evil approach in

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football intro, in particular, was not without criticism and parody. The intro was lampooned in the October 9, 2010 episode of "Saturday Night Live", with host Jane Lynch as Hill (with Jason Sudeikis as Al Michaels and Bill Hader as Cris Collinsworth). In the "30 Rock" episode "Season 4", the character of Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) sings what appears to be an allusion to the Faith Hill intro for NBC's fictional "Tennis Night in America" program. In the "South Park" episode entitled "Faith Hilling", Eric Cartman sings an obvious spoof of Hill's actual "Sunday Night Football" song. On April 15, 2013,

neg: History of Monday Night Football In the book, Cosell also said that ABC should have had the right to choose its own "Monday Night" schedule. In his mind, "Monday Night Football" is what elevated the NFL in popularity over Major League Baseball. He felt that this should have been ABC's reward for raising the league's profile. That same year, O. J. Simpson replaced Tarkenton as a fill-in when Meredith or Cosell, who also was a broadcaster for the network's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs, was unavailable. The season would serve as a study in contrasts as one of the most exciting Monday night

neg: NBA on ABC to get out of his contract with ESPN to join John Madden (who worked alongside Michaels for the previous four years on "Monday Night Football" as an analyst) at NBC. Michaels added fuel to the fire by refusing to state his future plans, and he could not "respond to rumors... because that would become a distraction." On February 8, 2006, ESPN announced that its "Monday Night Football" team would consist of Mike Tirico on play-by-play, with football anaylst Joe Theismann and Tony Kornheiser as analysts. ESPN explicitly stated that Michaels would not return to either "Monday Night Football" broadcasts or

neg: The ABC Monday Night Movie of ABC's prime time schedule and required any scripted series on Monday night to be a midseason replacement. ABC transferred its "Monday Night Football" rights to ESPN in 2006, clearing the Monday night time slot for regular scripted programming. (ABC now has a similar strategy with the "ABC Saturday Night Movie", which airs after the end of the "Saturday Night Football" college package.) The ABC Monday Night Movie The ABC Monday Night Movie (styled "ABC Monday Movie of the Week" since 2004) is an anthology series on the ABC television network. It is part of ABC's Movie of the Week

neg: Monday Night Football (How I Met Your Mother) that he doesn't remember who won or even who played, but he'll always remember the evening as a fun one he spent with his friends. Staci Krause of "IGN" gave this episode a rating of 5.4 out of 10. Monday Night Football (How I Met Your Mother) "Monday Night Football" is the 14th episode in the second season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on February 5, 2007. Ted's favorite holiday is Super Bowl Sunday. He has everything planned out continuing their tradition of watching it together with hot wings. The gang's plans are

neg: Monday Night Football 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 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

neg: Monday Night Football 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 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

neg: 2013 Denver Broncos season Ronnie Hillman rushing for a 1-yard touchdown. The Raiders scored a late touchdown, with McFadden rushing for a 1-yard touchdown, however, the Broncos recovered the ensuing onside kick, sealing the win. Notes This was the 17th meeting on Monday Night Football between the Broncos and Raiders — tied for the most frequent pairing in Monday Night Football history with the Dallas Cowboys & Washington Redskins, who will meet for a 17th time in . Coming off their Monday Night win over the Raiders, the Broncos remained on home ground for an interconference duel with the Philadelphia Eagles. A 6-yard touchdown

neg: Monday Morning (Fleetwood Mac song) "Tango In The Night" tour in 1987. It reappeared on the Unleashed Tour in 2009. Monday Morning (Fleetwood Mac song) "Monday Morning" is a 1975 song written and sung by Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. It is the first track off the multi-platinum selling album "Fleetwood Mac". It was later included on the 2002 compilation album, "The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac". Like "Rhiannon" and I'm So Afraid, "Monday Morning" was intended for the second Buckingham Nicks LP, but they were instead used for Fleetwood Mac's 1975 eponymous release. During live performances from 1975-1978, Buckingham performed an intro that would

neg: ESPN College Football before the start of Saturday Night Football at 8:00. ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime starts around 7:00, as does another game on ESPN2. Late-night games (often from the Pac-12 Conference) begin on ESPN and ESPN2 around 10:30 ET, in prime time on the west coast. "Kickoff Week" is the first weekend of the college football weekend. Games include the Advocare Classic, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game and other non-conference action. One game will air on ABC on Sunday night, and second game will air on ESPN on the following Monday night. After the first week of the college football season, the

neg: Arena Football League on ESPN 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 returned to their respective roles while Marcellus Wiley and Shaun King joined as color commentators. The tandems of Greenberg-Golic and Wingo-Schlereth would not reprise their roles as play-by-play

neg: 2018 NFL season Sunday Night Football. CBS hired Gene Steratore to fill their rules analyst position, a position that had been vacant since CBS released Mike Carey in 2015. ESPN hired Jeff Triplette for Monday Night Football. Fox retained both Mike Pereira and Dean Blandino. Additionally, Pereira assists with Fox's Thursday Night Football Coverage. ESPN will introduce a fully new broadcast team for "Monday Night Football". Joe Tessitore will replace Sean McDonough as lead play-by-play man; McDonough will remain with ESPN as a college football announcer. With previous color analyst Jon Gruden returning to coaching, "Monday Night Football" hired Jason Witten and Booger

neg: Bob Goodrich full producer in 1976. Goodrich was producer of ABC’s NFL’s "Monday Night Football" from 1980-86. As a tribute to the work done on "Monday Night Football", authors Bill Carter and Marc Gunther wrote "Monday Night Mayhem", which became a made-for-TV movie of the same name that documents the 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

neg: WWJ-TV 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 ESPN's "Monday Night" contract, WWJ-TV has the right of first refusal for at least one Monday night game. This right of first refusal has only been deferred twice, when the Lions' lone Monday night game of 2011 moved to WXYZ-TV due to an unexpected winning record at the time, and then when the station moved the team's first Monday night game of 2015 to WKBD so as to not

neg: ESPN Major League Baseball instead of an early one should it so desire), and the coverage of Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day games (except for games that fall under the regular Monday-night slot). ESPN's Monday and Wednesday telecasts remain mostly nonexclusive, meaning the games also can be televised by each club's local broadcasters. In fact, Wednesday games are blacked out on ESPN unless a participating team's local broadcaster does not choose to televise the game. The Sunday games remain on ESPN only, and with ESPN losing the rights to "Sunday Night Football" telecasts, it looks likely that "Sunday Night Baseball" will run

neg: Sky Sports season. These games are played on Friday nights, Saturday lunchtimes, Sundays and Monday nights, for which Sky broadcasts the dedicated programmes "Friday Night Football" (FNF), "Premier League Live, Renault Super Sunday" and "Bet365 Monday Night Football" (MNF). Previously, games on Saturday late afternoon were broadcast as "Saturday Night Football" (SNF), although this slot passed to BT Sport. David Jones is the presenter of "Super Sunday" and "Monday Night Football." Kelly Cates also hosts live Premier League action on Friday nights under the banner "Friday Night Football (FNF)," Saturday lunch times, under the banner "Premier League Live". Since the 2016-17 season,

neg: Sunday British television networks and stations also broadcast their political interview shows on Sunday mornings. Major League Baseball usually schedules all Sunday games in the daytime except for the nationally televised "Sunday Night Baseball" matchup. Certain historically religious cities such as Boston and Baltimore among others will schedule games no earlier than 1:35 PM to ensure time for people who go to religious service in the morning can get to the game in time. In the United States, professional American football is usually played on Sunday, although Saturday (via "Saturday Night Football"), Monday (via "Monday Night Football"), and Thursday (via "Thursday

neg: Monday Night Football (will meet for an 18th 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. Among the active stadiums following the conclusion of the 2017 season, Miami Gardens, Florida's Hard Rock Stadium has hosted the most games with 36. "Monday Night Football" has continued to provide as much entertainment as sports throughout its run. In addition to the extra cameras, the program has also pioneered technological broadcast

neg: Pittsburgh Steelers Pompeani and former Steelers lineman Chris Hoke also host the "Xfinity Xtra Point" following the game on days when CBS does not have that week's NFL doubleheader. When CBS has a week's doubleheader, the show airs on WPCW. Coach Mike Tomlin's weekly press conference is shown live on AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh. Both Batch and Hoke replaced former Steelers lineman Edmund Nelson, who retired from broadcasting in 2015. "Thursday Night Football" broadcasts are shown locally on Fox affiliate WPGH-TV, channel 53 (along with home games with NFC opponents and some flexed interconference games), while "ESPN Monday Night Football" broadcasts are shown

neg: Sirius XM NFL Radio NFL Radio channel does not air games on Sunday afternoons. Instead, it airs "The Sunday Drive", which recaps all games being played on Sunday afternoon, while breaking into radio broadcasts of any games where pertinent action is taking place (similar to NFL RedZone). The games themselves are aired on the reserved play-by-play channels and other channels not being used. The channel instead carries national radio broadcasts produced by the "NFL on Westwood One" for "Sunday Night Football", "Monday Night Football", and "Thursday Night Football". Through the 2010 season, when games were carried on this channel, the internet simulcast would carry

neg: Sean McDonough in the game-winning touchdown for the Spartans. Starting in 2013, McDonough started play-by-play work for the "NFL on ESPN Radio". Others included Ryan Ruocco, Marc Kestecher, and Bill Rosinski, who previously did NFL games for NFL on Westwood One as the Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers. McDonough was named lead play-by-play announcer for "Monday Night Football" (succeeding Mike Tirico, who departed for NBC Sports) beginning in the 2016 season. In March 2018, ESPN announced that McDonough would be leaving "Monday Night Football" and would return to announcing college football games. In 2012, McDonough had surgery to repair superior canal

neg: History of Monday Night Football Night Football". She had been the first female beat writer in the NFL when she covered the New England Patriots for the "Boston Globe" in the mid-1970s, and was the first and only woman to handle a Super Bowl Trophy presentation when she was a sportscaster with CBS. Visser was followed by several women, notably Melissa Stark and Lisa Guerrero, on the sideline who were perceived as "eye candy", none of whom affected the ratings. For the 1998 season, ABC pushed "Monday Night Football" back an hour (it has usually aired at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time). A special pre-game show

neg: Monday Night Countdown (later Trent Dilfer) in the third spot. On September 17, 2012, "Monday Night Countdown" moved up to the 6:30 ET timeslot and expanded to 2 hours. As a result, "SportsCenter Monday Kickoff" had its runtime cut in half, from 60 minutes to 30 minutes only. Additionally, "Monday Night Countdown" debuted a new program logo that closely resembles that of "Monday Night Football" and a new graphics scheme package matching that of "Monday Night Football". Also, "Monday Night Countdown" began using MNF's "Heavy Action" theme music as this program's own theme music. Ray Lewis is added to the on-site team after

neg: Al Michaels NBC Sports, which had acquired the rights to "Sunday Night Football" games. Despite speculation that Michaels might be joining NBC as well, Michaels stated that he would continue as the "MNF" play-by-play announcer, stating, "I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'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

neg: Broncos–Raiders rivalry Broncos–Raiders rivalry The Broncos–Raiders rivalry is a rivalry between the Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders in the National Football League's AFC West division. Since the American Football League was established in 1960, the Broncos and the Raiders have shared the same division, first being the AFL Western Conference, and since the AFL–NFL merger, the AFC West. <br> As of , the Broncos and Raiders have met 17 times on Monday Night Football, tied for the most frequent pairing in Monday Night Football history with the Dallas Cowboys & Washington Redskins, who met for a 17th time in . The Broncos

neg: Monday Night Football is once again seen just before the opening kickoff. Due to the Thousand Oaks shooting, and the then-ongoing Northern California wildfires, the opening intro was not shown during the November 12 broadcast between Pro Bowl WR Odell Beckham Jr. and the New York Giants and Super Bowl-winning CB Richard Sherman and the San Francisco 49ers and also, the historic Chiefs-Rams game the following week (November 19). In the case of the latter, it was originally scheduled to be played at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, but was moved to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (the Rams' current home stadium, which

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football For Sunday Night" as the new intro for "SNF". In this open, Underwood is seen at the stadium entrance in front of a bus. Upon entering the stadium, she goes into the "SNF" broadcast booth with Al Michaels (play-by-play) and Cris Collinsworth (color). She is then seen going down the steps before entering the locker room with the players and then walking past a row of cheerleaders. Michele Tafoya (sideline reporter) also appears in the open, as does product placement by Verizon. As Underwood leaves the computer-generated stadium at the end of the open, the "SNF" logo is lit up

neg: Monday Night Football on Triple M Williams, resulting in the most controversial "Monday Night Football on Triple M" broadcast. The opening Monday night game of the season saw Melbourne Storm defeat New Zealand Warriors 32-18 at Telstra Dome. Anthony Maroon left Triple M for Sydney FM rival Vega during the off season, with Dan Ginnane becoming the main commentator. With comedy duo Roy and HG joining the station, "Monday Night Football on Triple M" commenced at 7pm in 2009, with an added new programme ‘The Verdict’ running from the end of the game until approximately 9:30pm, focusing on the issues from the weekend. Audience text messages

neg: Monday Night Football on Triple M Monday Night Football on Triple M Monday Night Football on Triple M broadcasts each Monday night NRL game, ever since its most recent inception in 2007. Austereo recently extended its deal to continue broadcasting rugby league until the conclusion of the 2012 season. The rights are commercially exclusive, however ABC Radio broadcast Monday Night matches involving non-Sydney teams, permitted to be broadcast only into the regional markets of the appropriate team/s involved. Triple M also ventured into international Rugby League, acquiring the rights to the 2010 Rugby League Four Nations tournament. After years of being rumoured to have desired a

neg: Pardon the Interruption the former (30-minute) format, with no shoutouts or "SportsCenter" segment. Until midway through the 2008 season the show also took place at the "Monday Night Football" host stadium as Kornheiser was a part of the Monday broadcast team; after that Kornheiser hosted from an undisclosed location in the host city while Wilbon hosted from the PTI studios in Washington. After Kornheiser's departure from "Monday Night Football" after the 2008 season, "PTI" reverted to its normal format for the 2009 football season after the first week of "Monday Night Football". Since 2011, the show has reverted to its original format where

neg: Tofiq Bahramov described football matches as, duels...full of unforeseen turns and even real miracles. And who does not want to be a magician if even for just 90 minutes? A 1996 study by Ian Reid and Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford) came to the conclusion that the ball was at least 6 cm away from being a goal. Contrary to this however, on 4 January 2016, a review of the goal on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football concluded that the ball did in fact cross the line. The Azerbaijan national stadium in Baku is named the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium in his honour.

neg: Monday Night Countdown ESPN's Bristol studios, which shares the same set as "Sunday NFL Countdown" and "NFL Primetime". However, the "Monday Night Football" graphics package is still used, but the rundown graphic was changed to match the one used on "SportsCenter". 1 week later (September 15, 2014), "Monday Night Countdown" moved up to the 6:00 p.m. ET timeslot, which resulted in "SportsCenter Monday Kickoff" not returning for the 2014 season and moving the 6:00 p.m. ET edition of "SportsCenter" to ESPN2 on Mondays during the NFL season. Suzy Kolber, who substituted for the then-ailing Stuart Scott during most of the 2014 season, took

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Sunday Night Football will have a rules analyst for the first time in program history, as the network added Terry McAulay, who retired after the 2017 season. McAulay has worked three Super Bowls in his tenure as an NFL referee. McAulay will also work the Notre Dame Football games for NBC, with FNIA studio host, Mike Tirico. Much of NBC's "Sunday Night Football" production crew comes from ABC/ESPN, including Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff (who respectively serve as producer and director of the broadcasts), as ESPN moved most of its previous Sunday night crew over to "Monday Night Football". Michaels,

neg: Monday Night Football (UK TV programme) a format similar to that of "Ford Super Sunday" with a presenter (Jeff Stelling) and studio guests. In 2004–05, the analysis section was then incorporated into an additional programme shown after "Ford Super Sunday" called "Ford Super Sunday: The Last Word". The show ended after the 2006–07 season when Setanta and subsequently ESPN obtained the rights for Monday night Premier 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

neg: Mike & Mike Golic would also call a National Football League game together for ESPN, broadcasting the second game of ESPN's Week 1 "Monday Night Football" doubleheader along with former NFL coach and player Mike Ditka. In June 2008, ESPN announced that the "Three Mikes" will return to broadcast the second game of the opening 2008 "Monday Night Football" doubleheader. Their last Monday Night Football assignment was in 2009. Starting on December 17, 2007, Greenberg also hosted the game show "Duel". The show lasted for 16 episodes. The first six episodes were part of a first season high-stakes tournament, while the remaining ten

neg: History of Monday Night Football banner placed across the bottom of the screen. On December 5, 2005, in a game dubbed "The Monday Night Massacre" by NFL Films, the Seattle Seahawks shut out the Philadelphia Eagles 42–0 with three defensive touchdowns (two interceptions, one fumble return) to tie the then-largest margin of victory mark in "Monday Night Football" history and set the mark for the greatest margin of victory in a Monday night shutout, as well as setting the NFL record for scoring the most points with less than 200 yards of offense. Andre Dyson scored twice for the Seahawks defense, once on a 72-yard

neg: 2017 NFL season "Monday Night Football" and the Pro Bowl. This also was the second and final year of the current "Thursday Night Football" contract with CBS, NBC, and NFL Network. Along with ESPN's Wild Card game on ABC, ESPN announced on May 24, 2017, that the 2018 Pro Bowl would also be simulcast on ABC, marking the return of the Pro Bowl to ABC for the first time since 2003. For the first 9 weeks of the regular season, ESPN2 simulcast ESPN Deportes' Spanish-language "Monday Night Football" broadcasts; this served as filler programming for the channel until the start of its Monday-night

neg: NFL on Westwood One Sports the pregame and halftime shows with Gray. Steve Tasker serves as the sideline reporter for "Monday Night Football". John Dockery served as sideline reporter from 1999 to 2007. From 2008–2012, there was no official sideine reporter for "Monday Night Football". In 2005, Westwood One carried an alternate Spanish-language feed featuring Clemson Smith-Muniz as play-by-play host and David Crommett as commentator. Those broadcasts have moved to United Stations Radio Networks. In addition to its Sunday and Monday night coverage, Westwood One also is the radio home for "Thursday Night Football". Westwood One and its predecessors have always aired Thursday games in

neg: Joe Tessitore #19 Nevada's overtime upset of #4 Boise State. In October 2010 Tessitore had the call of undefeated LSU's dramatic last second win over Florida. He was also the ESPN broadcaster for Illinois' last second come from behind victory over #1 Indiana. In 2018, Tessitore was named play by play announcer for "Monday Night Football" replacing Sean McDonough who will return to announcing college football, swapping roles with Tessitore. He broadcasts "Monday Night Football" along with Jason Witten, field analyst Booger McFarland, and sideline reporter Lisa Salters. Tessitore has been honored for his on-air work. "Sports Illustrated"’s Richard Deitsch has twice

neg: Monday Night Baseball not explained. Later, ESPN announced that it would also scale back its on-site presence for NFL games. Because ESPN airs "Monday Night Football" games, beginning with the pre-season in mid-August, "Monday Night Baseball" games move to ESPN2 for the NFL pre-season, and starting in 2009, the Monday night telecast has been moved to Wednesday night to form an MLB doubleheader with the regularly scheduled "Wednesday Night Baseball". On some occasions ESPN will have two scheduled games aired simultaneously, with the Monday Night game airing on ESPN and the Wednesday Night game on ESPN2. Both telecasts are branded with the "Wednesday

neg: Monday Night Football on Triple M , in an interview which dominated headlines for days. The sparring led to the removal of Gould from the following edition of Channel 9’s "The Footy Show". The opening moments of the 2009 season of "Monday Night Football on Triple M" were occupied by comedy duo Roy and HG, who used to airtime to petition for a new team to be established at Graeme Park, Gosford Phil Gould was forced to miss the match on 7 June 2009, because of the possibility he contracted Swine Flu. Gould had sat near Queensland forward Ben Hannant - who was diagnosed with Swine

neg: Monday Night Miracle (American football) Monday Night Miracle (American football) The Monday Night Miracle was an NFL Monday night game between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins played at Giants Stadium on October 23, 2000. The Jets scored 30 points in the fourth quarter, twice tying the score, and sending the game into overtime, where they defeated the Dolphins, 40–37. Like their 1994 showdown at Giants Stadium which was made famous by Dan Marino's "fake spike", this game was for first place in the AFC East as both teams entered the game with identical 5–1 records. But unlike the 1994 game which featured the

neg: Monday Night Miracle (American football) overshadowed the game. In fact, the crowd broke out into "Let's Go Yankees" chants countered by "Let's Go Mets" chants during the third quarter. Monday Night Miracle (American football) The Monday Night Miracle was an NFL Monday night game between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins played at Giants Stadium on October 23, 2000. The Jets scored 30 points in the fourth quarter, twice tying the score, and sending the game into overtime, where they defeated the Dolphins, 40–37. Like their 1994 showdown at Giants Stadium which was made famous by Dan Marino's "fake spike", this game was for

neg: Monday Night Football on Triple M just after 9pm. The first "Monday Night Football on Triple M" match was on 19 March 2007, with South Sydney defeating the Sydney Roosters 18-6 at Sydney Football Stadium. Phil Gould joined "Monday Night Football on Triple M", resulting in a major reshuffle. Gould became the sole expert in the commentary box, with Mark Geyer leaving the team and Jimmy Smith moved to the sideline role. Dan Ginnane became host of the expanded programme, which began the season commencing at 6pm. This was changed to 6:40pm, except for a special edition two days after the sudden departure of Sonny Bill

neg: American Broadcasting Company share were greatly helped by the fact that several smaller markets had grown large enough to allow full-time affiliations from all three networks. In 1970, ABC debuted "Monday Night Football" as part of its Monday prime time schedule; the program became a hit for the network and served as the National Football League (NFL)'s premier game of the week until 2006, when "Sunday Night Football", which moved to NBC that year as part of a broadcast deal that in turn saw "MNF" move to ESPN, took over as the league's marquee game. According to Goldenson, "Monday Night Football" helped earn

neg: NFL on Westwood One Sports "Monday Night Football" pregame and halftime shows are conducted differently from usual pregames, as there is no other game action to recap. Jim Gray presides over both the pregame and halftime shows, which are more feature driven and often feature guest commentators such as Tom Brady and Larry Fitzgerald, who contributes to the pregame show weekly with predictions and commentary. In addition to the Monday night games, Gray also hosts the studio shows for the Thursday opening game and the Super Bowl. For the Monday Night game held in Mexico during Week 11 of the 2016 season, Scott Graham co-hosted

neg: Thursday Night Football Tony Boselli handling color analysis and Hub Arkush as the sideline reporter. Until 2018, Boomer Esiason, the "Monday Night Football" analyst for Westwood One, has been a regular substitute if Boselli was unavailable due to other commitments (in some cases, Esiason would call the Thursday night game if he is unavailable for the previous/next Monday night game and/or if the Thursday game is in close proximity to his New York home). This table shows the National Football League teams' all-time standings for games played on "Thursday Night Football". Standings are current as of October 4, 2018. • †St. Louis Rams,

neg: History of Monday Night Football commercial break and that his microphone was off) replied, "No shit." Nielsen ratings data for the first 17 weeks of the 1998–99 television season showed that "Monday Night Football" averaged a 13.9 rating, down 8% from the 15.0 average rating for the broadcasts in 1997 – the previous standard in ratings futility. In actuality, "MNF" ratings had been hitting all-time record lows for the previous four years. Beginning in 1999, "Monday Night Football" telecasts used a computer-generated yellow line to mark where a team needs to get a first down, a method first used by ABC sister cable channel ESPN.

neg: Shoulder programming Shoulder programming Shoulder programming is a type of pre-event and post-event broadcast programming as a companion to live sporting events. This type of programming may be multi-platform and include both television and radio programs. Due to exclusive content or access, it may be included in a broadcast rights package for a particular sport or event. The purpose is to expand revenue opportunities through radio or television advertising or increased exposure to a pay-per-view event. NFL Primetime, Monday Night Countdown, and "SportsCenter Monday Kickoff" have each been companion National Football League (NFL) programming for Monday Night Football on ESPN. Monday Night

neg: Monday Night Football the White Stripes – the song was part of the soundtrack for the 2008 film "Quantum of Solace", then the latest in the James Bond series. "Monday Night Football" celebrated its 600th game broadcast on October 20, 2008 in a game which the New England Patriots defeated the Denver Broncos, 41–7. The 39th season of "MNF" ended on December 22, 2008, when the Bears beat the Green Bay Packers, 20–17, in overtime at home at Soldier Field in Chicago. The title sequence for the 40th season of "Monday Night Football" featured Hank Williams, Jr. seen on the steps of a

neg: Monday Night Football (GMC paid for product placement) and then goes into a timeline of historical events that occurred during the "Monday Night Football" era, including some highlights of "MNF" games from the previous 43 seasons up to 2012. At the end of the sequence, helmets featuring logos of that night's two participating teams are shown, followed by the various "Monday Night Football" logos used since the program's debut in 1970. The 80-second opening animation sequence, which also featured Pac-Man, Darth Vader and President Ronald Reagan, was created by actor/filmmaker Peter Berg. A revision of the opening sequence was used for the 2014

neg: NBA on ABC introduced the previous fall for its final season of "Monday Night Football") for the network's NBA telecasts. ESPN, along with partner network ABC, began using graphics packages inherited by ESPN's "Monday Night Football" broadcast starting in 2006, featuring a score banner with an oblique red and white design. The graphics were later replaced in April 2009 with a more compact grey design, with panel-like lower thirds and a permanent "stats bar" located underneath the score and time. This was replaced in 2010 with an updated appearance based on another redesign adopted by "Monday Night Football" in late 2009, featuring a

neg: NFL on Westwood One Sports show was called) was slightly different from the format the show used before and after. In addition to the usual format one of the analysts from "Football Night in America" would 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

neg: Friday Night Football (NRL) Friday Night Football (NRL) Friday Night Football is an Australian sports broadcast of National Rugby League games on Friday evenings. In 1982, several early season NSWRL games were played on a Friday night, however regular non-weekend football began as "Monday Night Football" in 1985, with Canterbury meeting Manly on 24 June. However moderate attendances and a night game prior to a working day eventually saw the game shifted to Friday from 1988 on. As with Monday Night Football, regular Friday fixtures only commenced in the latter half of the season, due to the midweek competition. By 1990, a Friday night

neg: Monday Night Soccer as manager of Floriana. After the show's cancellation, it was replaced by Soccer Republic which airs at a later time on Monday nights than its predecessor and also shows highlights of each of the previous weekend's Premier Division matches. The following is a full list of panelists: 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

neg: NFL on Westwood One Sports Harlan and Esiason/Warner. Kugler and Warner would again call the Week 16 Monday Night game (Lions-Cowboys), with Kugler filling in for Harlan as the latter called the Christmas Night game (Broncos-Chiefs) in Kansas City (where Harlan resides in) with Lofton. On August 9, 2018, it was announced that Kurt Warner would be succeeding Esiason as Westwood One's primary color commentator for "Monday Night Football" ending Esiason's 18 year reign in the "Monday Night Football" both, with Harlan continuing as play-by-play announcer. However, Esiason called the opening game of the 2018 season (Falcons-Eagles) as his final game for the network. The

neg: The Sports Network TSN serves as the exclusive cable rightsholder of the National Football League in Canada, alongside terrestrial rightsholder CTV, carrying "Sunday Night Football", "Monday Night Football", and "Thursday Night Football" (whose rights were previously held by Rogers and Sportsnet, and will be simulcast with CTV Two for simsub purposes), as well as Sunday afternoon games. TSN also carries ESPN's NFL studio programs, including "NFL Live", "Sunday NFL Countdown", and "Monday Night Countdown". TSN currently serves as the main Canadian outlet for TNT's NBA coverage, along with exclusive Canadian rights to the NBA Finals. TSN also currently airs Formula One and NASCAR

neg: Anthony Dixon the New Orleans Saints on "Monday Night Football". Despite playing well in the preseason, Dixon had only ten rushing attempts until week 12. After Gore suffered a fractured hip during a "Monday Night Football" game against the Arizona Cardinals on November 29, Dixon had 14 carries for 54 yards and a touchdown as a backup to Brian Westbrook, who took over for Gore. Dixon has played in all 72 games of his NFL career, primarily on special teams. At the end of the 2012 season, Dixon and the 49ers appeared in Super Bowl XLVII. He contributed on special teams, but

neg: History of Monday Night Football 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). An early bid by

neg: Friday Night Football (NRL) televises both the 6:00pm and the 8:05pm games. Host Chief commentators Co-commentators Sideline commentators Friday Night Football (NRL) Friday Night Football is an Australian sports broadcast of National Rugby League games on Friday evenings. In 1982, several early season NSWRL games were played on a Friday night, however regular non-weekend football began as "Monday Night Football" in 1985, with Canterbury meeting Manly on 24 June. However moderate attendances and a night game prior to a working day eventually saw the game shifted to Friday from 1988 on. As with Monday Night Football, regular Friday fixtures only commenced in the latter

neg: Tony Kornheiser sparked the idea for "PTI" well before the end of his run at ESPN Radio. The show won a Sports Emmy Award for best Daily Outstanding Studio Show in 2009 and 2017. When "Monday Night Football" moved from ABC to ESPN, Kornheiser received and accepted an offer to be a color analyst on "Monday Night Football" in early 2006. He was originally passed over in favor of "Sunday Night Football" commentator Joe Theismann; however, when play-by-play man Al Michaels left ABC to call "Sunday Night Football" for NBC, Kornheiser was brought in alongside Theismann and new play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico.

neg: ESPN Sunday Night Football of the open weeks with NBA telecasts. From 1987–1997, ESPN used various themes for its NFL coverage, reflecting its separate management from sister company ABC Sports (now ESPN on ABC since September 2006) at the time. In 1998, as Disney began consolidating ESPN and ABC Sports, ESPN's NFL coverage began using themes associated with "Monday Night Football" such as "Heavy Action". In-game use of these themes ended after 2000, in favor of another original theme also referred to as "Sirens" (for featuring sirens prominently). When ESPN gained the Monday night games, they once again began using the traditional "Monday Night

neg: History of Monday Night Football 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 history. What would eventually be named the "NFL's comeback of the year" was played on "Monday Night Football" on October 16. Late in the third quarter, the massive underdog Arizona Cardinals led the Chicago Bears 23–3. Arizona seemed to have the game wrapped up, as rookie quarterback Matt Leinart was having a great day, and Arizona had forced six

neg: James Harrison (American football) ball was knocked away from Reed's grasp. Pittsburgh linebacker Lawrence Timmons immediately recovered the fumble. The Steelers would go on to blow out the Ravens, 38–7. On November 26, during a Monday Night Football game, an announcer gave Harrison the nickname, "Mr. Monday Night", because of his outstanding performance on November 5. He piled up 8.5 sacks, 7 forced fumbles, 3 recovered fumbles, and 98 tackles on the year. He was voted team MVP for the 2007 season. In the Steelers Week 4 Monday Night Football game against the Baltimore Ravens Harrison recorded 10 total tackles, 2.5 sacks, 2 tackles

neg: History of the National Football League on television relatively high, if declining, TV ratings, ABC decided to end its relationship with the NFL after losing significant money on "Monday Night Football". In addition to the fees, part of this decision may have been the result 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

neg: Monday Night Football "Monday Night Football" is also broadcast in Canada on TSN and RDS, and in most of Europe. On September 7, 2013, the NFL announced that British Eurosport would show "Monday Night Football" games live in the United Kingdom for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. The telecasts are also seen in most of Australia on ESPN Australia, in Portugal on SportTV 3 and SportTV HD and on TV 2 Sport 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

neg: Monday Night Baseball Monday Night Baseball Monday Night Baseball is a live game telecast of Major League Baseball that airs most Monday nights during the regular season on ESPN. The official name of the game is "Monday Night Baseball presented by USAA". The game starts at 7 p.m. ET, following "SportsCenter", and usually lasts around three hours leading up to an hour-long "Baseball Tonight". The program sometimes airs on ESPN2 rather than ESPN, often due to NBA playoff coverage in April and May, and preseason Monday Night Football coverage in August. Unlike ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball", "Monday Night Baseball" is not exclusive, but

neg: History of Monday Night Football Cosell. Some of the production crew teasingly referred to the segment as "The Beauty and the Beast". 1980 also marked some key personnel moves for the top-rated ABC show. It was the first season of Monday Night Football produced by Bob Goodrich, who would lead the production team for another 6 years. In addition, 1980 was the first year a woman joined the traveling production crew of over 40 cameramen, engineers, producers and directors. Alexis Denny, then a sophomore at Yale University, served as the stage manager of the telecasts and wrote the script for the half-time highlights that Howard

neg: ESPN Sunday Night Football Kolber replaced Solomon Wilcots, who joined CBS as a color commentator. In 2002, ESPN's "SNF" crew covered the new Thursday, opening night kickoff game. In 2004, Pat Summerall replaced Patrick for the preseason and for several regular season weeks following Patrick's recovery from open-heart surgery. After the 2005 season, ESPN ended this package in favor of picking up the broadcast rights to "Monday Night Football" from ABC. NBC picked up the rights to ESPN's Sunday night games. To replace "Sunday Night Football" ESPN moved its late-season "Sunday Night Baseball" broadcasts back to the network and replaced most of the rest

neg: Pete Rozelle teams Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers becoming part of the newly-formed American Football Conference (AFC.) All remaining pre-merger NFL teams formed the National Football Conference (NFC.) By 1970, the 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 2006) Monday Night Football aired

neg: Shaun Hill season. His 2008 starting debut was in week 10, on Monday Night Football against the Arizona Cardinals. Shortly after the Seahawks game, reports surfaced that Nolan and offensive coordinator Mike Martz allegedly made up stories about Hill having a tired arm in the preseason so that O'Sullivan, who played for Martz when he was offensive coordinator of the Detroit Lions, would win the starting job without a real challenge. On "Monday Night Football" against the heavily favored Arizona Cardinals, Hill delivered a solid performance in the first half. Hill completed a 31-yard touchdown to Josh Morgan to put the 49ers

neg: Sal Paolantonio Sal Paolantonio Salvatore Anthony Nicholas Paolantonio (born June 13, 1956 in Long Island, New York) is a Philadelphia-based bureau reporter for ESPN, who primarily reports on NFL stories. Since joining ESPN in 1995, Paolantonio has become a staple in their NFL coverage, as he contributes to shows such as "SportsCenter", "NFL Live", "Sunday NFL Countdown" (from a game site) and "Monday Night Countdown" (from the "Monday Night Football" site). In 2004, he added studio work to his duties, replacing Suzy Kolber as the host of "NFL Matchup", an X's and O's football show; joining him are Louis Riddick and Greg

neg: History of the Washington Redskins a loss to the Dallas Cowboys 31–30 on the "Monday Night Football" season opener. The game also marked the rookie debut of Darrell Green, selected in the 1983 NFL Draft along with Charles Mann, who played for twenty more seasons. They lost only one more time in the regular season, which was filled with extraordinary individual and team achievements. On October 1, 1983, the Redskins lost to the Green Bay Packers 48–47 in the highest scoring "Monday Night Football" game in history, in which both teams combined for more than of total offense. Then on November 20, 1983, Riggins set

neg: Monday Night Countdown his retirement from the NFL in 2012. On December 23, 2013, the final scheduled "Monday Night Football" broadcast of that season, Chris Berman was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco covering the 49ers' final home game in that stadium, while Stuart Scott was at ESPN's Bristol studios. The 49ers defeated the Atlanta Falcons, 34-24, in the "MNF" season finale. That game was also the 36th and final "Monday Night Football" game — and the last NFL game — ever played at Candlestick Park. On September 8, 2014, "Monday Night Countdown" moved to a brand-new set inside Digital Center 2 of

neg: L.A. Doctors for Favorite New Dramatic Television Series. L.A. Doctors L.A. Doctors is an American medical drama television series set in a Los Angeles primary care practice. It ran on CBS during the 1998-99 season. It replaced "Brooklyn South" after its cancellation in May 1998. Four Los Angeles doctors run a practice in this drama that focuses as much on the problems in the American medical system as it does on the patients. The series was scheduled opposite ABC's "Monday Night Football" and NBC's "Dateline Monday", and struggled in the ratings, leading up to the show's cancellation in May 1999 The series

neg: History of Monday Night Football 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. Cosell continued to draw criticism during "Monday Night Football" with one of his offhand comments during the September 5, 1983 game, igniting a controversy and laying the groundwork for his departure at the end of that season. In a game between the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys, Cosell referred to Alvin Garrett, an

neg: Joe Theismann Jack Kemp when he helped call Super Bowl II for CBS). Theismann served as a color commentator on regional CBS NFL coverage in 1986 and 1987, then worked on ESPN's "Sunday Night Football" telecasts from 1988 to 2005, and on their "Monday Night Football" coverage in 2006. In addition to covering football, Theismann hosted the first half of the first season of "American Gladiators" in 1989. On March 26, 2007, ESPN announced that Ron Jaworski would replace Theismann in the "Monday Night Football" booth. Theismann rejected an offer to work on the network's college football coverage. He has since done

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football 22.9 million viewers, the most for the first four weeks of a prime time NFL package in 14 years (since ABC earned a 24.0 million average viewership in 1996 on four broadcasts of "Monday Night Football"). The Washington Redskins–Dallas Cowboys game on December 30, 2012 was the highest-rated "Sunday Night Football" broadcast ever, earning 30.426 million viewers (22.074 million during the period from 8:31 to 11:25 p.m. Eastern Time) and a household rating of 12.7. This also made it the most watched regular-season primetime game in 16 years, since a November 18, 1996 "Monday Night Football" game on ABC between

neg: NFL on NBC to switch the schedule so non-competitive games would not air in the league's marquee timeslot. Since this would require a move to Sunday night in order for this to happen, and since ABC decided to relinquish their rights to "Monday Night Football", NBC was able to bid on the "Sunday Night Football" package and won the rights after ESPN (corporate sibling to ABC and which had previously held those rights) elected to take over the "Monday Night Football" rights instead. NBC resumed airing NFL football on August 6, 2006, with coverage of the annual AFC-NFC Hall of Fame Game. NBC's

neg: Monday Night Soccer 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-running weekly League of Ireland highlights programme until

neg: NFL on NBC which often led to teams with losing records playing each other on Monday night later in the season. The moves were intended to break NBC out of its ratings slump; however, this did not happen right away, and although "NBC Sunday Night Football" is the network's top-rated program and places in the top 30 among all broadcast network programs, it had no effect on the rest of the network's schedule for several years. Al Michaels, the longtime voice of "Monday Night Football" and other events for ABC, moved to NBC to become the play-by-play announcer for "Sunday Night Football". Michaels

neg: History of the National Football League on television 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 Dennis Miller, and celebrity guests such as John Lennon, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Clinton. During its 36-year run on ABC, "Monday Night Football" consistently ranked among the most popular prime time broadcasts each week during the season. As the league's broadcasters, ABC, CBS, and NBC had their own talent. Announcers such as Cosell, Frank Gifford,

neg: Monday Night Miracle (American football) 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 the score 30–7 in Miami's favor, Jets broadcaster Howard David announced, "And with a whole quarter to go, this game is over." The Jets proceeded

neg: History of the New York Giants (1979–93) occurred during that "Monday Night Football" game. Here is a description of the play taken from a Monday Night Football broadcast in 2005: "On Dec. 1 1986, New York Giants tight end Mark Bavaro cements his reputation as one of the toughest men in the NFL. With the Giants trailing, Bavaro catches an innocent pass from Phil Simms over the middle. It takes nearly seven 49ers defenders to finally drag him down, some of which are carried for almost 20 yards, including future Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott. Bavaro's inspiring play jump starts the Giants, who win the game and

neg: Los Angeles Rams his own. Donald's contract made him the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history, though this record would be broken a day later when the Chicago Bears signed newly acquired Khalil Mack to a $141 million extension. The Rams opened their 2018 season on September 10 by defeating the Oakland Raiders 33–13 on Monday Night Football, scoring 23 unanswered second half points in a game where head coach McVay took on his former mentor, Jon Gruden, who was making his return to coaching. It was the first of two Monday Night Football appearances for the Rams in the season. The Rams

neg: History of Monday Night Football June 2000, Lesley Visser's career suffered a highly publicized setback when she was famously bounced as the "Monday Night Football" sideline reporter for a less experienced, much younger woman and a man, who did not have as extensive journalistic credentials as Visser. "It was staggering to me", Visser later recalled. However, she wound up returning to CBS Sports, philosophical as ever. "You can have a short career if it's based on looks and youth", she said, "but legitimacy is what lasts." Which ABC replaced her with both Melissa Stark and Eric Dickerson. This was part of the overhaul when ABC

neg: The ABC Monday Night Movie The ABC Monday Night Movie The ABC Monday Night Movie (styled "ABC Monday Movie of the Week" since 2004) is an anthology series on the ABC television network. It is part of ABC's Movie of the Week format. It began as an extension of "The ABC Sunday Night Movie". Airing from January 19, 1970 until 2004 as a series, it has since run as a series of specials styled "ABC Monday Movie of the Week". Airing movies on Monday nights was far more common during the time in which ABC held rights to "Monday Night Football", which occupied four months

neg: Monday Night Football 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 the Atlanta Falcons on October 15, 2007, which drew a 5.7 rating. ESPN's third season of "Monday Night Football" was the most-watched program