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pos: 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".

pos: 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

pos: 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

pos: 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

pos: 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

pos: 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.

pos: History of the National Football League reported by "Sports Illustrated"s Richard Deitsch to be the chosen play-by-play announcer on ESPN's "Monday Night Football" opening week late broadcast between the Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos. She did that announcing job in September of that year, and thus became the first woman to call a nationally televised NFL game. In 2018 Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer became the first female duo to call an NFL game, which they did for an Amazon Prime stream of "Thursday Night Football". Shannon Eastin became the first woman to officiate an NFL game in 2012, in a pre-season matchup between the

pos: Al Michaels out of his contract with ESPN to join Madden at NBC. By this time, it was clear that NBC's "Sunday Night Football" would be the NFL's premier prime-time package, with ESPN's "Monday Night Football" relegated to secondary match-ups similar to that network's previous Sunday night telecasts. Michaels added fuel to the fire by refusing to state his future plans, and he couldn't "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 Theismann and Tony Kornheiser as analysts. ESPN explicitly

pos: 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

pos: Monday Night Football Brazilian feed has been merged with ESPN Brasil and the broadcasting is done from São Paulo. The current announcers are Everaldo Marques (play-by-play) and Paulo Antunes (color). Ari Aguiar (play-by-play), Rômulo Mendonça (play-by-play), Paulo Mancha (color), and Antony Curti (color) occasionally fill in. "Monday Night Football" has also been carried on national radio networks over the years. The Mutual Broadcasting System aired the games initially, with Van Patrick (–), Lindsey Nelson (–) and Al Wester announcing. CBS Radio took over the rights in with Jack Buck and Hank Stram commentating. After a two-year stint (–) with Don Criqui and Bob

pos: 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

pos: Al Michaels stated that Michaels would not return to either "Monday Night Football" broadcasts or ABC's NBA broadcasts (on which Michaels had been lead NBA play-by-play man). On February 9, 2006, NBC confirmed that Michaels would be joining Madden at the network to broadcast football on Sunday nights, thus ending Michaels's 20-year run on "Monday Night Football" and almost 30 years of service with ABC. In exchange for letting Michaels out of his contract with ABC and ESPN, NBC Universal sold ESPN cable rights to Friday coverage of the next four Ryder Cups, granted ESPN increased usage of Olympic highlights, and sold

pos: 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

pos: Monday Night Football opening sequence featured the team logos of that night's participants transitioning into the new "ESPN Monday Night Football" logo before going to a live shot. On October 3, 2011, ESPN pulled the theme song after Williams appeared on the Fox News Channel program, "Fox & Friends", where he compared a golf outing involving Barack Obama, John Boehner, Joe Biden and John Kasich to "Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu." On October 6, 2011, it was announced that Williams would no longer be singing the theme song, and that "All My Rowdy Friends" would no longer be used as its theme, as

pos: Jason Witten 11th Pro Bowl, which tied a Cowboys record with Bob Lilly. On April 26, 2018, reports surfaced that Witten was going to retire and accept a position as lead analyst for ESPN's "Monday Night Football" telecasts. A week later on May 3, Witten officially announced his retirement and confirmed he would be joining "Monday Night Football" for the 2018 season. Witten resides in Westlake, Texas, located in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, with his wife, Michelle, an emergency room nurse at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, and their four children, C.J., Cooper, Landry, and Hadley Grace. Witten is a Christian, and appears

pos: 2017 NFL season served as play-by-play announcer for the nightcap in ESPN's Week 1 Monday Night doubleheader, with Rex Ryan as her color commentator. In an unusual case of a broadcaster working for two networks in the same season, Mowins also called a regional game for CBS in Weeks 3, 15 and 17, with Jay Feely as her partner. Also, this would end up being the last season for the Monday Night Football broadcast team of Sean McDonough, Jon Gruden, and Lisa Salters. Gruden would return to coaching the next year for the Oakland Raiders, while McDonough would return to doing College Football

pos: Monday Night Football Bowl, Super Bowl LIII in 2019. Since 2017, ESPN2 has simulcasted ESPN Deportes' telecast, "NFL Esta Noche", and the ESPN Latin America "SportsCenter" after the game, during the first nine weeks of the season (prior to the start of its Monday-night college basketball broadcasts). ESPN2 had previously scheduled lesser-viewed filler programming during the period. Since the 1990s, ESPN Latin America has a Portuguese language feed targeted to their viewers in Brazil. Ivan Zimmermann (play-by-play), André José Adler (play-by-play), Roberto Figueroa (color), and Marco Alfaro (color), among others, were the announcers broadcasting from ESPN's headquarters. Since , the structure of the

pos: Dan Shulman Night Baseball" crew for the 2011 MLB season. During the "Sunday Night Baseball" telecast between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies on May 1, 2011, Shulman announced live to the ESPN audience that Osama bin Laden had died, a moment that has been compared to Howard Cosell's report of John Lennon's assassination on "Monday Night Football" in 1980. Shulman told "USA Today" that he had learned of bin Laden's death from Valentine, who himself received the news via text. "I talked to the producer in the truck and asked if they knew what was going on. Or maybe they

pos: Monday Night Football replacing the scorebar when in use. For the 2009 and 2010 seasons, a revamped version of the 2008 design was used, incorporating a new, metallic silver design. Timeout indicators were added to the score bar in Week 4 of the 2009 season. For the 2009 season only, a "40th anniversary" logo was incorporated into the bar in celebration of "Monday Night Football"s 40th season. The "silver" graphics scheme would later be adopted by other ESPN properties, such as its college football games in December 2009. In the 2011 season, the banner was restructured as a black, metallic design, which was

pos: Brent Musburger and ABC Sports in 1990, Musburger continued to cover the NBA Finals, as well as hosting Monday Night Football and providing play-by-play for Saturday Night Football and the SEC Network. He covered the Indianapolis 500, U.S. Open and British Open golf, the World Cup, the Belmont Stakes, and the College Football national championship among other big events. In January 2017, he left the ESPN and ABC television networks after 27 years, briefly retiring from play-by-play of live sports. Raised in Billings, Montana, he is a member of the Montana Broadcaster's Association Hall of Fame. Musburger was born in Portland, Oregon,

pos: Joe Theismann sportscaster and an analyst on pro football broadcasts with ESPN for nearly 20 years. He primarily partnered with Mike Patrick, for the network's "Sunday Night Football" package and for one season of "Monday Night Football" with Mike Tirico and Tony Kornheiser. Theismann also worked as a color analyst on NFL Network's "Thursday Night Football" package with play-by-play voice Bob Papa and Matt Millen. Theismann also co-hosts the network's weekly show "Playbook." Since 2011, he has worked on the Redskins preseason television broadcast team. Additionally, he works on the NFL Network on a variety of programs, primarily as an analyst. Theismann

pos: 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

pos: Beth Mowins Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Lafayette with a BA in 1989, and from Syracuse University with a master's degree. Mowins began her career in 1991 as news and sports director for WXHC-FM Radio in Homer, New York, and is one of the 2009 inductees into the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame. As of 2012, Mowins lived in Saginaw, Michigan. In May 2017, Mowins was reported by "Sports Illustrated"s Richard Deitsch to be the chosen play-by-play announcer on ESPN's "Monday Night Football" opening week late broadcast between the Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos. She did that

pos: 2016 NFL season International Series games Web-exclusive, instead focusing its efforts on the "Thursday Night Football" partnership with Twitter. Mike Tirico, the lead play-by-play announcer for "Monday Night Football", announced his departure from ESPN on May 9, 2016; he joins NBC, where he was originally designated to lead the network's broadcast team for "Thursday Night Football" telecasts. Replacing Tirico on "MNF" is Sean McDonough. The move was initially reported in April but not confirmed until the next month. However, shortly before the start of the regular season, the league exercised a clause in its television contract with NBC demanding that any broadcast team

pos: Candlestick Park game 36–21. At approximately 5:19 p.m. local time on December 19, 2011, Candlestick Park experienced an unexpected power outage just before a "Monday Night Football" game between the 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. An aerial shot shown live on ESPN showed a transformer sparking and then the stadium going completely dark. About 17 minutes later, however, the park's lights came back on in time for the game's kickoff. With 12:13 remaining in the second quarter, another power outage created yet another 30-minute delay before play resumed again. The 49ers 2011 season ended at Candlestick Park with a loss to the

pos: 2007 NFL season been doing in-game updates of other NFL games, was reverted to a part-time play-by-play role. The biggest changes were at NBC and ESPN. Michael Irvin’s contract with ESPN was not renewed, and former coach Bill Parcells returned to the network after four years as Cowboys head coach. Parcells left before the season ended to become the Miami Dolphins VP of Player Personnel. Another pair of former Cowboys, Emmitt Smith and Keyshawn Johnson also provided roles in the studio for "Sunday NFL Countdown" and "Monday Night Countdown". At "Monday Night Football", Joe Theismann was dropped (and would later resign from the

pos: 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

pos: Hawaii Bowl an at-large team. In 2007, C-USA had a guaranteed spot in the Hawaii Bowl, which was filled by the East Carolina Pirates. Since Christmas Eve fell on a Monday in 2007, the game was scheduled for the night prior (December 23) to avoid a conflict with "Monday Night Football" (also on ESPN). In 2008, the bowl organizers selected Notre Dame as an at large, marking the first time an independent played in the contest. The 2011 Hawai'i Bowl featured the Conference USA champion for the first time, as Southern Mississippi played in the bowl instead of going to the Liberty

pos: Mike Patrick Terrapins football and basketball broadcasts as well as Washington Redskins pre-season games. Beginning in 1982, Patrick worked for ESPN, where he is best known for his role as play-by-play announcer on the network's "Sunday Night Football" telecasts, with Paul Maguire and Joe Theismann from 1987–2005. Patrick was briefly replaced in 2004 by Pat Summerall, while he recovered from heart bypass surgery. He has also called college football, men's and women's college basketball, and the College World Series for the network, as well as several NFL playoff games for ABC Sports while the network held the "Monday Night Football" television package.

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: 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: Monday Night Wars the match finish has been interpreted as a desire of McMahon to reiterate his victory in the Monday Night War, with Scott Hall commenting, "That's Vince just reminding you who won, even if he's going to make money the other way". Monday Night Wars The Monday Night War(s) is the common term describing the period of mainstream televised American professional wrestling from September 4, 1995, to March 26, 2001. During this time, the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF, now WWE) "Monday Night Raw" went head-to-head with World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) "Monday Nitro" in a battle for Nielsen ratings each week. The

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: 2009 St Kilda Football Club season saw defeat by 83 points, and restrict them to 4.4 (28), their second-lowest ever score at that time and the equal-lowest score ever recorded at Etihad Stadium (tied with 's 3.10 (28) in 2002). In round 5, St Kilda restricted Port Adelaide to their second-lowest score in their club history, going down 15.12 (102) to 5.6 (36). The 6th round saw the Western Bulldogs 11.10 (76) lost to St Kilda 14.20 (104) in front of 36,302 at Etihad Stadium. Round 7 saw St Kilda and Collingwood play a Monday night game, the AFL's first for several seasons. St Kilda won

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: Vinny Testaverde lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos. The Jets had Super Bowl aspirations entering the 1999 season. However, in the first game of that campaign against the New England Patriots Testaverde suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon and did not play the rest of the season. In 2000, however, Testaverde returned to quarterback the Jets. The highlight of the season was the "Monday Night Miracle" game against the Miami Dolphins on October 23, 2000, selected by fans as the greatest game in Monday Night Football history. In that game, the Jets fell behind 30-7 going into the fourth quarter,

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: 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: 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: Monday Night Football (How I Met Your Mother) 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 cut short when they find out a worker at the bar has died. They are forced into going to the funeral, otherwise they won't be allowed back in the bar. The funeral starts at the same time as Super

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: 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: Major League Baseball on ABC 1986 All-Star Game, ABC did not team them on a regular basis on "Monday Night Baseball" until (after three 'experiments' in ). During the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, networks benefited from sports programming, including NBC, which relied on the Summer Olympics in September and the World Series in October, and ABC, which in addition to its postseason baseball coverage, moved up the start time for the early weeks of "Monday Night Football" (when Al Michaels was unavailable to do play-by-play on "Monday Night Football", which he had done for ABC beginning in 1986 due to his postseason baseball

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 Monday Night Football 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 a commentator, along with veteran football play-by-play announcer Keith Jackson. Arledge had tried to lure Curt Gowdy and then Vin Scully to ABC for the "MNF" play-by-play role, but settled for Jackson after they proved unable to break their respective existing contracts with NBC Sports and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jack Buck was also considered, but when Arledge assistant Chuck Howard

neg: History of Monday Night Football 29.6 with a 46 share. Both Namath and Simpson would be replaced at the end of the 1985 NFL season, with critics noting their lack of journalistic skills in comparison to Cosell. In their place the following year came veteran broadcaster Al Michaels, who had previously anchored ABC's pregame coverage of Super Bowl XIX, and had been the lead play-by-play announcer of "Monday Night Baseball" since 1983. Michaels had also by this point, gained much notoriety at ABC for his 1980 "Miracle on Ice" broadcast. Michaels served as the play-by-play announcer, teaming with Gifford for a two-man booth in 1986.

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: F. S. Oliver expressed these feelings in private, such as a letter he wrote during World War I that said, "…Democracy is not going to win this war or any other – if we win, it will be because the spirit of the small remnant who hate and despise democracy and all its works will save the country in spite of its democratic government." His attitude led him to play a part in the fall of the Asquith government later in the war as a member of the so-called "Monday Night Cabal." Oliver’s book "Alexander Hamilton" brought him into contact with "Milner’s Kindergarten"

neg: Residential colleges of Rice University as well as cut back on water usage. Air conditioners power off when windows are opened. Duncan College has also established a Monday night tradition, known as "Monday Night Lights." When a few students went down to play ping-pong one night, they noticed that the ping pong table they had played on actually belonged to Baker College, who took its table back. Instead of going to bed, they made a makeshift table in the quad out of extra tables and using toilet paper as the net. People noticed the table and came down to the quad join in, watch and

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: Steve Levy 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 for Wednesday Night Baseball. He is known for leaving fellow co-anchor Keith Olbermann in stitches when, due to a teleprompter typo, he said "bulging dick" instead of "bulging disc". Levy is a prolific and well known NHL broadcaster. He has

neg: Donovan McNabb by his former team, the Eagles, at home on" Monday Night Football". McNabb finished the game going 17 of 31 for 295 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions. On December 17, 2010, head coach Mike Shanahan relegated McNabb to the third quarterback position for the rest of this season, stating that he wanted to evaluate backup Rex Grossman in game play. McNabb had perhaps one of his worst years of his career since 1999, going down in touchdowns and up in interceptions. However, at the time McNabb was demoted to third string, he was on pace to total 4,156

neg: History of Monday Night Football $78 million, after being benched in the fourth quarter just a week earlier. The very first play of the game Vick threw an 88-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson. The Redskins were criticized for their lack of coverage because the Eagles were known for going deep on the first play; the Eagles' next two possessions led to touchdowns. The very first play of the second quarter, with Philadelphia up 28-0, saw Vick throw a 48-yard touchdown to Jeremy Maclin. With Philadelphia up 45-21 at halftime, Vick threw a three-yard touchdown to Jason Avant in the third quarter to make the

neg: Tech Talk Live Tech Talk Live Tech Talk Live (formerly called the Hokie Hotline) is a weekly radio show, hosted by Hokies play-by-play announcer Bill Roth, dedicated to discussion of Virginia Tech Hokies football and men's basketball. The show airs every Monday night at 7pm during the school year. The first show of each season airs the Monday before the first football game. The Monday after the last Virginia Tech football game is the final time of the season the show will discuss, or feature coaches and guests solely to talk about, Hokies football. After the final Virginia Tech basketball game of the

neg: Tech Talk Live heard on Virginia Tech sports' flagship radio station WBRW-FM 105.3 The Bear. The show is carried on every station that carries Virginia Tech football, as well as on Yahoo! Sports. Tech Talk Live Tech Talk Live (formerly called the Hokie Hotline) is a weekly radio show, hosted by Hokies play-by-play announcer Bill Roth, dedicated to discussion of Virginia Tech Hokies football and men's basketball. The show airs every Monday night at 7pm during the school year. The first show of each season airs the Monday before the first football game. The Monday after the last Virginia Tech football game is

neg: Miracle at the Meadowlands "Monday Night Football" (MNF) contest against the Miami Dolphins to win 40–37 in overtime. It was the greatest comeback in "MNF" history, and was later voted the best "Monday Night Football" game ever by the show's fans. Jets fans have referred to this game, too, as "The Miracle at the Meadowlands", though it is known throughout the NFL as the Monday Night Miracle. A punt return by Brian Westbrook of the Eagles with 1:16 left on the clock on October 19, 2003 is occasionally referenced as a "Miracle at the Meadowlands". The play and subsequent extra point gave the Eagles

neg: History of Monday Night Football During that season, the Miami Dolphins again made records with the biggest blowout in "Monday Night Football" history in a 45-3 rout of the then 10-1 New York Jets (the record was later tied and subsequently broken in 2005; see below). Also in 1986, when Al Michaels became unavailable because he was calling Major League Baseball's League Championship Series, Frank Gifford moved up into the play-by-play spot while Lynn Swann or O.J. Simpson filled-in as the color commentator. Gifford would once again call the play-by-play when Michaels was busy calling the World Series in 1987 and 1989 and the National

neg: Thursday Night Football games. As a result of CBS taking over production responsibilities for the "Thursday Night Football" broadcasts, its number one broadcast team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms took over the broadcast booth. With NBC adding games in 2016, Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, the broadcast team of "NBC Sunday Night Football", were required under league contract to do the same. NBC had initially hired former "Monday Night Football" play-by-play man Mike Tirico for Thursdays before the league nixed the idea of any separate broadcast teams for Sunday and Thursday nights. Tirico would eventually call three "Sunday Night Football" games, including

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: Frank Gifford "Monday Night Football"'s play-by-play announcer, and remained involved with the show for 27 of its next 28 years. His low-key delivery provided a perfect counterbalance to broadcast partners Meredith and Howard Cosell. In an era with only three television broadcast networks, the series became the longest-running prime-time sports program in television history, and developed into one of television's most valuable franchises. In 1986, Al Michaels took over play-by-play duties, and Gifford switched to a commentator role. However, Gifford did play-by-play for the next several years (Gifford was joined by Lynn Swann on color commentary in 1986 and by Dan Dierdorf

neg: Mark Bavaro finished the season with 66 receptions, 1,001 yards, and 4 touchdowns and was selected to his first Pro Bowl. His 66 receptions broke the Giants record for receptions by a tight end previously held by Bob Tucker (59). Perhaps the most well-known play of Bavaro's career occurred in a "Monday Night Football" game in 1986. 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

neg: History of Monday Night Football the complaints that followed, the NFL chose to play the game, a decision that mirrored the league's decision to play its scheduled games during the weekend following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 15 years earlier. The opening contest of the 1979 season saw a poignant moment as former New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley was introduced to a sellout crowd at the Patriots' Schaefer Stadium. Stingley had been paralyzed in a preseason game the year before and was making his first visit to the stadium since the accident. During the 1980 season, Monday Night Football continued its

neg: 1986 New York Giants season goalline to set up the winning touchdown. Another important play also 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

neg: NFL on Westwood One Sports One coverage of "Monday Night Football" was anchored by Jack Buck on play-by-play, with former Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram alongside him in the color position. They stayed paired together for nearly every major game covered by the network from 1978 until Super Bowl XIX in January 1985. Since Westwood One now regards NBC Radio's coverage of "Monday Night Football" as part of its broadcast history Stram and Buck were regarded as temporarily replaced by Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy for the two years NBC Radio held the contract. Buck and Stram returned to the booth at the beginning

neg: Jack Buck the St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Chargers held at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. (Buck also worked NBC's backup "Game of the Week" during the 1976 baseball season before returning to the Cardinals full-time in 1977.) Buck served as the CBS Radio voice of "Monday Night Football" (teaming with Hank Stram) for nearly two decades (1978–1984 and again from 1987–1995 after CBS regained the radio rights from NBC). Ironically, in 1970 ABC's Roone Arledge had asked via telephone about Buck's interests in becoming the first television play-by-play announcer for "Monday Night Football", but because of personal animosity surrounding his

neg: Bruce Johnson (gridiron football) Out of high school he was ranked the 20th best cornerback by Scout.com. He chose Miami over Auburn and Clemson. After going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft, Johnson was signed as an undrafted free agent by the New York Giants. On September 20, 2009, he returned a Tony Romo interception 34 yards for a touchdown against the Dallas Cowboys. On December 21, 2009, he recorded his second interception of the season for 49 yards against the Washington Redskins on Monday Night Football. The Redskins ran the Swinging Gate on that play before halftime with punter Hunter Smith at Quarterback

neg: NFL on NBC play-by-play announcer, calling one of NBC's two games on Wild Card Weekend. John Madden (who had last worked with Al Michaels on "Monday Night Football" for ABC) was one of the first people hired by NBC, chosen to continue as a color analyst. Cris Collinsworth substituted for Madden when he was unavailable, called Wild Card games alongside Hammond until 2008, and took over on a permanent basis for the 2009 season when Madden announced his retirement from broadcasting on April 16, 2009. Prior to this, he served as a studio analyst for NBC's pregame show, "Football Night in America". For

neg: Monday Night Football Lisa Salters was named the permanent solo sideline reporter for the 2012 season. In addition, color commentator Ron Jaworski did not return to the booth after 5 seasons. As a result, Jon Gruden became the solo color commentator, with "MNF" going back to a two-man booth for the first time since its final season on ABC (2005). MNF's opening graphic sequence, which showed the helmet logos of the game's two participating NFL teams and then the program's logo, was seen before the "Monday Night Football Launch" segment. The opening animation sequence begins with an image of a 2014 GMC Sierra

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: NFL on Westwood One Sports play-by-play man in 1982 (after having called games for the network from 1964 to 1974) and remained there until 1987. The duo worked together as a television broadcast team in 1982, 1983, and 1985. To replace the departing Buck and Stram for 1996, Westwood One promoted Howard David from the "Sunday Night Football" broadcast and moved Matt Millen, who at the time was a color commentator for Fox and a contributor to the Westwood One Monday night pregame show, into the booth alongside him. Beginning in 1998 and continuing until 2001, David served as the play-by-play voice of the New

neg: Centrals Junior Football Club, Wangaratta 14's and Under 16's who all wear the colours brown and gold (Hawthorn Hawks). Under 16's and Under 14s train at the Barr reserve every Monday and Wednesday. Under 12's only train on a Wednesday night. All 3 teams training goes from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (1hr) Centrals Junior Football Club was established in 1938 by unknown. this is currently their 77th year in the WDJFL. 2013: U14 - LOST 2012: U16 - WON 2010: U14 - LOST 1999: U13 - LOST 1998: U13 - LOST 1996: U17 - WON 1988: U17 - WON 1979: U17 - WON 1978:

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: NFL on NBC music song "I've Been Waitin' All Day for Sunday Night"; which was a customized version of Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You" (analogous to "All My Rowdy Friends Are Back for Monday Night (Are You Ready for Some Football?)", Hank Williams, Jr.'s reworking of his own song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" for ABC's "Monday Night Football"). The 2006 version was sung by singer Pink, while Faith Hill has done subsequent seasons, along with a second version for the network's Super Bowl coverage. For 2013 & 2014, country/pop singer Carrie Underwood sings a new version of

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: KKFN ratings leader in Denver. KKFN carries play-by-play for the NCAA football's Air Force Falcons. KKFN also carries much of Westwood One Sports' coverage. This includes NFL football, consisting of a Sunday afternoon doubleheader, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Thursday and Saturday Night Football, Thanksgiving Day games, all playoff games, the Super Bowl, and the Pro Bowl. It also includes NCAA football, including Conference Championships and some bowl games. Weekend programming starts on Saturday mornings from 9:00-11:00am featuring "Terry Wickstrom Outdoors," which focuses on fishing and hunting. Mid-morning and early afternoon is filled frequently with Paul William's "El Comandante "

neg: Howard David including major college football bowl games, NIT basketball, NASL soccer, and college bowling. David also worked for the CBS Radio (later Westwood One) network as lead play-by-play voice for its "Sunday Night Football" coverage until 1995, when he was promoted by CBS Radio to take Jack Buck's place on the network's "Monday Night Football" broadcasts. In 1998, David added a second full-time position when he joined WFAN (also a CBS property) to become the play-by-play voice for the New York Jets after Ian Eagle became a part of CBS television's return to NFL coverage. David's Jets duties took precedence over

neg: History of Monday Night Football 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. Two years later, Rozelle would build on this success as the NFL

neg: Christian Ponder a Monday Night Football game, the Vikings scored zero points offensively in a loss to the Giants as Freeman performed worse than both Ponder and Cassel had to that point. Not only did Freeman perform poorly, but he also suffered a concussion opening the door for Ponder to return to the starting lineup. Ponder said he was going to play more loosely, adding that he had already been benched so he had nothing to lose, an attitude he carried forward as he started the next six games for the Vikings. Ponder showed improvements over the start of the season as

neg: History of Monday Night Football in the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. In a coincidental twist, both Namath and Simpson were busy prior to the telecast with their induction into the shrine. One of the more grisly moments in "Monday Night Football" history occurred during a game between the Washington Redskins and New York Giants on November 18, 1985, at RFK Stadium. Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann's career would end when Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor reached from behind to drag him down and Taylor fell heavily on the quarterback's leg in the process. On the play, which viewers could see in a gruesome slow-motion

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: 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: History of the St Kilda Football Club the equal-lowest score ever recorded at Dockland Stadium (tied with St Kilda's 3.10 (28) in 2002). In round 5, St Kilda restricted Port Adelaide to their second-lowest score in their club history, going down 15.12 (102) to 5.6 (36). Round 6 saw the Western Bulldogs 11.10 (76) lose to St Kilda 14.20 (104) in front of 36,302 at Docklands Stadium. Round 7 saw St Kilda and Collingwood play a Monday night game, the AFL's first for several seasons. St Kilda won easily 20.8 (128) to Collingwood 5.10 (40), making it the lowest Collingwood score under Mick Malthouse as coach. Round

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: Antoine Cason came on a Monday Night Football match up against rival Oakland Raiders. In that game, Cason intercepted JaMarcus Russell's hail mary attempt on the last play of the game to seal the victory for the Chargers. In the next game, he intercepted Baltimore Ravens' Joe Flacco and returned it 22 yards. Cason ended the season with 41 total tackles (38 solo) and 2 INTs. He played in all 16 regular season games and their only playoff game for the 2009 AFC Western Division champion San Diego Chargers. He made first career start at corner on Monday Night Football against the

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 on Triple M Flu - on Channel 9's "The Footy Show" the previous Thursday. Jimmy Smith moved into the commentary box with Dan Ginnane as Gold Coast Titans beat St.George Illawarra 28-24 at Skilled Park. Triple M comedy duo Roy and HG were denied the opportunity to call Rugby League State of Origin - something the pair had done for two decades on Triple J - because it would infringe on Austereo’s Monday Night Football rights. As was the case 12 months earlier, Triple M comedy duo Roy and HG opened the season 2010 broadcast. This time they humorously congratulated management for 'dumping'

neg: History of Monday Night Football Fox – before joining "Monday Night Football". In 2002, the broadcast debuted the "Horse Trailer" award, in which a picture of the game's top performer(s) is displayed, as chosen by the broadcasting crew. During the fourth quarter of a preseason game early that season, Madden was joking about doing some recording in the "Horse Trailer", a term the producers used for one of the ABC production trucks. It was, in fact, a custom-built trailer designed from the shell of a horse trailer, but housed sophisticated electronic equipment inside it. By the first week of the regular season, an idea to

neg: History of Monday Night Football games ever was followed the next week by one of the most badly played in the run of the series. On October 17, 1983, the highest scoring game in "Monday Night Football" history took place in the Green Bay Packers-Washington Redskins game, with the Packers winning the game by a score of 48–47. One week later, the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals played for more than four hours before settling for a 20–20 overtime tie, "MNF"s only OT tie to date. The deadlock had come after dropped touchdown passes by Cardinal wide receivers Willard Harrell and Roy Green,

neg: Rocky Mountain Way (song) franchise has played the song after every home win at Coors Field since 1995. In 1998, ABC Records wanted to use a classic rock song for "Monday Night Football" that year, so they asked Walsh to rewrite the lyrics to "Rocky Mountain Way" for the quarterback John Elway of the Denver Broncos. "Rocky Mountain Elway" was the new title of the song and Walsh appeared in a video that ABC Sports showed on the "Monday Night Football". The Denver Broncos currently play the Godsmack cover version of the song during home games at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. In

neg: History of the National Football League in Los Angeles never instituted pay-per-view. Additionally, due to concerns about the area around Exposition Park and the Raiders' difficulty in selling out their home games (resulting in television blackouts in Los Angeles), the NFL scheduled all of the Raiders' appearances on "Monday Night Football" as road games after 1985, and would not even consider letting them play Monday night games in Anaheim. Eventually, Davis lost patience and entertained an offer from Irwindale, California (east of downtown L.A.) in , but did not move there. In the early 1990s, Rams owner Georgia Frontiere began to shop around for a new home for her

neg: Keyshawn Johnson Cowboys in 2004, leading the team in receiving yards and tying for the lead in touchdown catches while taking over a leadership role in the locker room and on the field. On March 23, 2006, Johnson signed a four-year, $14-million-dollar deal with the Carolina Panthers. Of this, he was guaranteed a five million dollar signing bonus. He was expected to play opposite Steve Smith as the number two receiver. During the Carolina Panthers' "Monday Night Football" game against the Buccaneers on November 13, 2006, Johnson became the first player in NFL history to score a touchdown on Monday Night Football

neg: Carolina Panthers Fox owned and operated station WJZY airs most regular-season games, while any home games against an AFC team air on CBS affiliate WBTV. Any appearances on Monday Night Football are simulcast on ABC affiliate WSOC-TV, while any late-season appearances on Thursday Night Football are simulcast on WBTV. Sunday night and some Thursday night games are aired on NBC affiliate WCNC-TV. All preseason games and team specials are televised by the Carolina Panthers Television Network on flagship station WCCB in Charlotte and fourteen affiliate stations throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee. The television broadcasting team consists of play-by-play commentator Mike

neg: Todd Donoho as host of "Time Out For Trivia". He also did occasional play-by-play for NBC Sports, in addition to freelance work for ABC Sports, Turner Sports, and Fox Sports Midwest. During his time at KABC, Donoho was known in the Los Angeles media market for beginning and ending his sports anchor segments with sports trivia questions and for his trademark phrase, "take a hike". During Donoho's time on air, KABC's 11 p.m. newscast's ratings approached those of long-time regional leader KNBC. Donoho also anchored the station's post-Monday Night Football program, titled "Monday Night Live." In Los Angeles, the similarity of Todd

neg: TNA Impact!'s move to Monday nights in a ratings battle called the Monday Night Wars. The January 4 show would be the first time since "Nitro"s last episode in March 2001 that two major wrestling promotions would go head-to-head in a Monday night ratings competition. WWE countered by announcing the return of Bret Hart, who had not appeared in WWE since the Montreal Screwjob in 1997. Leading up to the show, TNA President Dixie Carter stated that while Spike was not expecting "Impact!" to beat "Raw" in the ratings, it would be considered a success if they managed to at least maintain their usual Thursday night

neg: TNA Impact!'s move to Monday nights TNA Impact!'s move to Monday nights In March 2010, professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) moved their weekly television program, "Impact!", from airing on Thursdays to airing Monday nights. In doing so, TNA placed "Impact!" in direct competition with World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) flagship program "Monday Night Raw". It drew comparisons to the Monday Night Wars, in which defunct wrestling promotion World Championship Wrestling (WCW) program "Nitro" went head-to-head with "Raw" in a battle for higher Nielsen ratings each week from 1995 to 2001; this led "Impact!"s move to sometimes be called "The New Monday Night Wars". The

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: History of the New York Jets Stadium, opened to the public in April 2010. The stadium took 34 months to construct, and can seat 82,500. The Jets hosted the Giants in the first game of the preseason on August 16, 2010. The Jets' first regular season home game at the new stadium was on September 13, 2010 and was shown nationwide on Monday Night Football. New York lost to the Ravens 10–9, but built a 9–2 record, tied for the division lead with the Patriots (whom the Jets had beaten once) going into a Monday night game at New England. Expectations of a Jets victory were

neg: Boomer Esiason and still holds that position today. He has provided analysis and commentary for all the Kitten Bowls since Kitten Bowl II, which airs during half time of the Super Bowl. While still playing, Esiason appeared as a color analyst on the USA Network's two-year broadcast of the World League of American Football (WLAF) on Monday nights, partnered with Brad Nessler. After his retirement from playing, he went into broadcasting full-time. He was a color commentator for ABC's "Monday Night Football" from 1998 to 1999. Following his dismissal by ABC (due primarily to personal conflicts between him and play-by-play announcer Al

neg: Bill Walsh (American football coach) week 6 of the regular season. On "Monday Night Football" that week, the win was not included in the halftime highlights. Walsh felt that this was because the Cowboys were scheduled to play the Rams the next week in a Sunday night game and that showing the highlights of the 49ers' win would potentially hurt the game's ratings. However, Walsh used this as a motivating factor for his team, who felt they were disrespected. The 49ers faced the Cowboys again that same season in the NFC title game. The game was very close, and in the fourth quarter Walsh called

neg: History of the Carolina Panthers Despite going on the road and losing a close game to the Miami Dolphins 27–24, the Panthers managed to get a six-game winning streak going, including a win at home on "Monday Night Football" against the Green Bay Packers. In a home game against the Minnesota Vikings, Steve Smith, who had already emerged as one of the league's best wide receivers had a real breakthrough, catching 11 passes for 201 yards and 1 touchdown, with his longest reception of the game being 69 yards. Jake Delhomme also enjoyed one of his best outings in years, completing 21 of 29 passes