query: who announced the first monday night football game

pos: 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

pos: 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,

pos: History of Monday Night Football Cosell would voice over in a style for which he was known throughout his career. One of the most remembered moments in "Monday Night Football" history occurred on December 8, 1980, yet had nothing to do with the game or football in general. During a game between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots, Howard Cosell broke the news of famed Beatle John Lennon's assassination, news that stunned a nationwide audience. The NFL's television contract renewal in 1982 also put ABC in the Super Bowl rotation for the first time, giving it the broadcast rights to Super Bowl XIX in

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

neg: Monday Night Football 1990s and early 2000s saw an even more increased reliance on the entertainment factor. Some halftime shows, featuring popular music stars, were broadcast in their entirety rather than being ignored in favor of analysis of the game by the commentators, as in previous seasons. On December 8, 1980, one of the most memorable moments of "MNF" occurred when Cosell announced in a news flash that Lennon had been shot and killed in New York City. "Monday Night Football" was the first national broadcast to announce his death. An advertisement during halftime on the October 19, 2015 game featured the world

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: 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 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: History of Monday Night Football all sporting events televised by ESPN and ABC (the former of which effectively took over full responsibility of ABC's sports division that year, which was rebranded as ESPN on ABC). The first regular season "Monday Night Football" game to air on ESPN was on September 11, 2006, featuring the visiting Minnesota Vikings at the Washington Redskins at FedExField, in which the Vikings won 19–16. The September 25 edition of "Monday Night Football" highlighted the New Orleans Saints' first game back in the Louisiana Superdome following Hurricane Katrina to take on the Atlanta Falcons. The game had a Super Bowl-like atmosphere

neg: 1892 Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield State Normal football game 100th anniversary of the game happened to occur on Monday, September 28, 1992. "Monday Night Football" celebrated "100 years of night football" with a game between the Los Angeles Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs won 27–7 in front of 77,486 fans. 1892 Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield State Normal football game The 1892 Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield State Normal football game, played September 28, 1892, was the first-ever American football game played at night. The game was played between Wyoming Seminary (a private college preparatory school located in the Wyoming Valley of Northeastern Pennsylvania) and

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: 2015 NFL season to air "Sunday Night Football", the annual Kickoff game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN continued carrying "Monday Night Football" and the Pro Bowl. Under a new eight-year deal, DirecTV continued to be the exclusive distributor of the NFL Sunday Ticket service. On May 12, 2015, it was announced that ABC would simulcast ESPN's wildcard game, marking the first time that ABC has broadcast any NFL game in nearly 10 years. Fox also expanded its pre-game coverage by moving "Fox NFL Kickoff" to the main Fox network from Fox Sports 1, serving as a lead-in to "Fox NFL Sunday". After

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: 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

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: 2013 NFL season team will move into the newly built Levi's Stadium located in Santa Clara, California, for . The 49ers had played in Candlestick since 1971 and the stadium has hosted Monday Night Football 36 times, including the stadium's farewell game on December 23. No other facility had as many Monday Night Football appearances. With the departure of the 49ers, Candlestick Park will be left without any permanent tenants. On February 3, 2013, plans to demolish Candlestick Park were announced and might take place after the final 2013 49ers game. Two stadiums received new naming rights: In January 2013, Cleveland Browns Stadium

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 Special live coverage of NBC's Sunday Night Football coverage and ESPN's Monday Night Football, giving Sky live rights to every NFL game during the season for the first time ever. Similarly to Thursday Night Football, Sky Sports uses feeds from the American network to cover the late night Sunday game and the Monday game. NFL on Sky Sports uses the commentary teams from the American networks, including the likes of Jim Nantz, Phil Simms, Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. NFL Special NFL on Sky Sports, previously known as known as NFL Special when it airs on that

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: 2009 NFL season Oilers). The rest of the pre-season matchups were announced March 30, 2009. Highlights, among others, included a rematch of Super Bowl XLIII between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals on ESPN. The first game of the season was held on Thursday, September 10, at 8:30 pm EDT, with the Super Bowl XLIII champion Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Tennessee Titans 13–10 in overtime at Heinz Field. The opening weekend game on "NBC Sunday Night Football" featured the Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers, which the Packers won, 21–15. The opening weekend doubleheader games on "Monday Night Football" were both part

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: 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: 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: 2010 NFL season Meadowlands Stadium will be a 50/50 partnership between both New York teams. The Giants played their first regular season game on September 12 against the Carolina Panthers, while the Jets played the following night against the Baltimore Ravens in the first game of a "Monday Night Football" doubleheader. Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs since 1972, underwent a two-year $375 million renovation project which was completed and unveiled in July 2010. The stadium hosted the second game of the "Monday Night Football" opening weekend doubleheader when the Chiefs played the San Diego Chargers. M&T Bank Stadium, home of

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: Brady Quinn Anderson. The following week, Mangini named Anderson the starter. Quinn did not play again until Week 8, when he was brought in with three minutes to go in a 30–6 loss against the Chicago Bears. As the Browns headed into their bye week, it was not indicated who would be the starting quarterback for the rest of the season. However, it was announced five days before their Week 10 Monday Night Football game against the Baltimore Ravens, that Quinn was once again being awarded the starting quarterback position. Though he struggled in his first game back, as the Browns were

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: Deal or No Deal (U.S. game show) to its new post-football lineup. NBC announced on February 16, 2007 that the second airing would move from Wednesdays to Sundays at 9 p.m. (Eastern/Pacific) starting 3/4/07. In March, the Monday "Deal" fell to second place in the time slot, behind the debuting fourth edition of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars", the first edition of that show to include a Monday episode. Following a season-premiere episode on Monday, "Deal" vacated its stable Monday night home in a last-second decision by NBC to give the time slot to a drama series, "Chuck", for which it had high hopes. (This move contradicted

neg: 2014 NFL season who had failed tests due to amphetamine usage during the off-season were immediately reinstated despite being previously sentenced to four game bans. The following players were named first team All-Pro by the Associated Press: The following were named the top performers during the 2014 season: 2014 was the first season under a nine-year television contract with CBS (almost all AFC afternoon away games), Fox (almost all NFC afternoon away games), NBC (Sunday Night Football games, Thanksgiving night game, and the Kickoff game); and an eight-year contract with ESPN (Monday Night Football games). Among the changes from the previous TV contracts,

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: NBC Sunday Night Football results 2006] averaging 17.5 million viewers, 1.2 million viewers better than "ABC Monday Night Football" in 2005 and the best viewership number for the network primetime NFL package in six years (18.5 million on ABC in 2000). The season featured pop singer Pink singing the anthem for "SNF" called "I've Been Waiting All Day For Sunday Night." This would be the only season the tentatively scheduled games during the flex period were not publicly announced. The September 10 game marked the first time two brothers started against each other as quarterbacks: Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts, and Eli Manning of

neg: Ray Handley the regular season, and led the Giants to upset victories against the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game and the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl. Handley announced that the two quarterbacks would compete for the starting job. This caused some controversy as both fans and commentators felt that Simms shouldn't lose his starting job due to injury. Nonetheless, Hostetler won the battle in training camp and was announced as the starting quarterback. Handley's first game as head coach was a "Monday Night Football" game against the San Francisco 49ers (a rematch of the 1990 NFC Championship). Handley's

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: 2019 NFL season broadcast contracts with ESPN, CBS, Fox and NBC. This includes "cross-flexing" (switching) Sunday afternoon games between CBS and Fox before or during the season (regardless of the conference of the visiting team). NBC will continue to air "Sunday Night Football", the annual Kickoff Game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN will continue to air "Monday Night Football" and the Pro Bowl. Fox will continue to air "Thursday Night Football" alongside with NFL Network. Fox will also broadcast Super Bowl LIV. In November 2018, ESPN announced that it would air coverage for all three days of the 2019 NFL Draft on

neg: Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Louisiana Superdome 2005, Benson issued a statement saying that he had not made any decision about the future of the Saints. The "San Antonio Express-News" reported that sources close to the Saints' organization said that Benson planned to void his lease agreement with New Orleans by declaring the Superdome unusable. Ultimately, the Saints announced that they would be returning to New Orleans, with the first home game on September 25, 2006 against the Atlanta Falcons on "Monday Night Football". Before that first game, the team announced it had sold out its entire home schedule to season ticket holders — a first in

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: National Football League on television night (for the first time since ). Both of the Cardinals' interconference home games in 2016 were also in primetime, with the New England Patriots game on Sunday Night Football and the New York Jets game on Monday Night Football, though CBS will air the team's game at San Francisco as part of that network's joint Thursday Night Football coverage with NFL Network. As such, barring a crossflex of a Cardinals Sunday afternoon game, CBS's solo production will have no Cardinals games for the second consecutive season (possibly the first time such a scenario occurred with one team in back-to-back

neg: National Football League on television Saturday, instead of Sunday. This scenario, in which a team finishing its season on Monday night had a playoff game the following Saturday, never occurred. Since 2006, ESPN has opened the season with a "Monday Night Football" doubleheader, with a 7:00 p.m. game and a 10:30 p.m. both shown in their entirety nationwide. ESPN2 or ESPNEWS (only in 2012 because ESPN2 was airing an MLB game) started the second game if the game on ESPN was not over by the time the second game had started. However, in Week 1 of the 2018 season, the conclusion of the first game

neg: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum since 1979, against the Seattle Seahawks. On January 6, 2018, the Coliseum hosted its first Rams playoff game since the 1978 NFC Championship game, against the defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons. On November 19, 2018, the Coliseum hosted its first Monday Night Football game since 1985, and the first Monday night game the Rams hosted at the Coliseum exact date 40 years later, with the Rams taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. That game, which was originally scheduled to be played at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City that night, was moved to the Coliseum due to poor field conditions at

neg: 2005 NFL season season that ABC held the rights to televise "Monday Night Football" after thirty-six years of airing the series. When the TV contracts were renewed near the end of the season, the rights to broadcast "Monday Night Football" were awarded to Disney-owned corporate sibling ESPN. NBC bought the right to televise "Sunday Night Football", marking the first time that the network broadcast NFL games since Super Bowl XXXII in 1998. Meanwhile, CBS and Fox renewed their television contracts to the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference packages, respectively. The 2005 season also featured the first ever regular season game

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: 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: 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: 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: Replacement player league announced that replacement officials from the lower levels of the NCAA, the Arena Football League, and the Indoor Football League would be used for the preseason and at least the first few weeks of the regular season (the league expressly avoided using upper-level NCAA officials to avoid tarnishing their careers as scabs). Unlike the 2001 replacements, the 2012 replacements were widely criticized. The criticism spiked after a September 2012 "Monday Night Football" game ended in controversy after the replacements awarded possession of the ball in a crucial end-of-game Hail Mary pass to the wrong team, thus directly altering the

neg: History of Monday Night Football The final "Monday Night Football" broadcast on ABC aired on December 26, 2005, when the New York Jets hosted the New England Patriots from Giants Stadium. Coincidentally, both the first and last ABC "Monday Night Football" game telecasts ended with a score of 31–21 with the Jets on the losing end. Vinny Testaverde holds the distinction of throwing the last TD pass in ABC's "MNF" telecast history; it was to wide receiver Laveranues Coles. Also, Testaverde's pass set an NFL record: most consecutive seasons with a touchdown pass, 19 seasons (1987–2005). Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel set a record of note

neg: Monday Night Football (UK TV programme) 2012–13 season. The first Monday Night Football of the 2013-14 season and Jamie Carragher's first appearance aired on 19 August 2013 with the Manchester City against Newcastle United game. Manchester City won the game 4–0. Following Neville's appointment as head coach of Valencia in December 2015, he left the show to focus on his managerial duties. After leaving Valencia in March 2016 due to a poor run of results, Neville's return to Sky in his previous role was confirmed on 10 August 2016 ahead of the 2016–17 Premier League football season; he made his on-air return on 14 August. David

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: 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: 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: Sunday NFL Countdown originates in the city hosting the Super Bowl for its Super Bowl edition. On November 20, 2016, the show originated from Mexico City, which was hosting the "Monday Night Football" game the following night between the Houston Texans and Oakland Raiders. In January 2017, ESPN announced that Berman would leave the show at the end of the 2016-17 season, ending his 31-year tenure as host of this program. Berman was replaced with Samantha Ponder, who had previously co-hosted and contributed to "College GameDay" from 2012–2016. On July 14, 2003, ESPN announced that Rush Limbaugh would be joining the show as

neg: 2016 Los Angeles Rams season for this game, both teams having finished in third place in their respective divisions in the season. The game was played in Week 7 on Sunday, October 23. The kickoff time was announced on April 14, and both teams had their bye the following week. As a condition of the Rams' use of the Coliseum, the University of Southern California requested that the NFL not schedule any Monday night home games at the stadium, nor any home games on days after USC football games. While the team's final schedule did not contain any home Monday night games, two games were

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: 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: National Football League Christmas games title) aired on Fox; Green Bay defeated Minnesota by a score of 34–31. Prior to that, the last Christmas Eve Friday game was played in when the New Orleans Saints defeated the Dallas Cowboys. In , Christmas Eve landed on a Monday. This proved especially problematic; the league's television contract with ESPN requires the league to provide 17 "Monday Night Football" games over the course of the first 16 weeks of the season (the league no longer schedules a Monday night game for the final weekend of the season, for multiple reasons). In seasons past, the league compensated for an

neg: NFL on CBS 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 to watch a professional football game in Detroit up to that point. Two years later, Rozelle would build on this success as the NFL began a four-year experiment of playing on Monday night, scheduling a total of five Monday night games on CBS from 1966 to 1969 (including 2 in 1968). The first

neg: Monday Night Football Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden and sideline reporter Lisa Salters called the game, the first of the 2014–15 NFL playoffs. The Carolina Panthers defeated the Arizona Cardinals 27–16. As with all "MNF" games, the matchup was simulcast on WJZY in Charlotte and KASW in the Phoenix market to allow local viewers over-the-air access to the game. However, the cable-only playoff game experiment would only last one season. On May 11, 2015, it was announced that ABC would simulcast a Wild Card playoff game with ESPN for the 2015 season. This was the first NFL game broadcast nationally on ABC since "MNF"

neg: History of Monday Night Football home markets of each team to allow viewers who do not subscribe to a pay television provider to view the game. For that reason, NBC gained rights to the Thursday night season-opening game, the Wild Card doubleheader that has traditionally aired on ABC, as well as a share of the rotating rights to the Super Bowl (with CBS and Fox also in the mix). ESPN had initially stated that its "MNF" team would consist of Al Michaels and Joe Theismann in the booth, with Michele Tafoya and Suzy Kolber serving as sideline reporters. However, on February 8, 2006, ESPN announced

neg: Monday Night Football ESPN Sunday Night Football crew called the first game, with the ABC MNF crew calling the second game. ESPN provided wraparound studio programming, with part of the pre and postgame airing on ABC, and ESPN's Ron Jaworski often appeared from the studio for extra analysis during the first game. This arrangement lasted from 1997 through 2005, except for 2002 when ESPN/ABC's college football crew did the early game. Super Bowls on ABC in this period were treated as ESPN events. After "MNF" was awarded to ESPN and "Sunday Night Football" was acquired by NBC in 2006, the Wild Card doubleheader

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: 2018 NFL season and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN will continue to air "Monday Night Football" and the Pro Bowl. CBS will broadcast Super Bowl LIII. On January 31, the NFL announced that Fox had acquired the broadcast television rights to the "Thursday Night Football" package under a five-year deal (aligned with the remainder of the NFL's current broadcast contracts). Fox will air 11 games, along with the 2018 NFL Draft (the first time the event has aired on over-the-air television), in simulcast with NFL Network, with the remaining games in the package airing exclusively on NFL Network to satisfy its carriage contracts

neg: NFL Kickoff Game New England Patriots are the only three defending Super Bowl champions to have lost. The Giants are also the only home team to have lost in the Kickoff Game twice—once in the very first edition of the contest, when the defending Super Bowl winner was not yet a regular participant, and again in 2012. 2003: The game's popularity and success saw it move to ABC as part of the "Monday Night Football" package. In order for the kickoff game to fit into the schedule, ABC dropped the "Monday Night Football" game held in the last week of the NFL season.

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: 1978 Houston Oilers season the Oilers would stun the Miami Dolphins, 17-9, in the two teams first playoff meeting, then defeated the New England Patriots 31-14 in New England to advance to their first ever AFC Championship game, but in that game, they would score a mere 5 points in a 34-5 blowout loss to the eventual champion Steelers. The Oilers appeared twice on Monday Night Football. In their first appearance on Monday Night Football, the Oilers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 24–17. In their second appearance, the Oilers defeated the Miami Dolphins 35–30. The Oilers number one draft pick, Earl Campbell, a 5–11, 232-pound

neg: 2007 Pittsburgh Steelers season through with kicker Jeff Reed nailing the game-winning 24-yard field goal with 17 seconds left for the game's lone points. With the win, the Steelers improved to 8–3. Also, not only did they improve their home record to 6–0, but this also marked their 13th-straight home win on Monday Night Football. This game would also be crowned as the lowest-scoring game in Monday Night Football history. It was the lowest scoring NFL game since December 11, 1993, when the New York Jets defeated Washington by the same score. Coming off their Monday Night slushfest victory over the Dolphins, the Steelers

neg: Monday Night Football the back cover and signifying the end of the "chapter", or game. The scene was filmed in the summer of 2009 at The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee. Before Williams Jr. appears, Frank Gifford gave a short vignette about a memorable moment in the history of "Monday Night Football" featuring one or both of the teams playing that night's game. Tony Kornheiser did not return to the booth after 3 seasons and was replaced by former Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden. The 40th season of "Monday Night Football" ended on December 28, 2009 with the Minnesota

neg: 2018 Chicago Bears season Night Football" and week two on ESPN's "Monday Night Football". Weeks ten to twelve saw three consecutive games against NFC North opponents, marking the Bears' first three-game divisional stretch since 2007. The second match of the slate, week eleven against the Vikings, was initially scheduled for Sunday afternoon before being flexed to "Sunday Night Football". The following week's game against the Lions was played on Thanksgiving Day, making the Bears the first team since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970 to play a Thursday afternoon game after playing on Sunday night. Through this stretch they managed to win 3 division games

neg: Ford Field to be moved elsewhere, and after deliberations, the NFL chose Ford Field. It was the first ever regular season Monday night game played at Ford Field. The Lions hosted their first ever "Monday Night Football" game in Ford Field on October 10, 2011 against the Chicago Bears. A Buffalo Bills home game against the New York Jets was played at Ford Field on November 24, 2014 after a major lake effect snowstorm hit western New York, causing the game to be moved from Ralph Wilson Stadium. The Bills won the game 38–3. On December 13, 2003, Ford Field hosted the

neg: History of Monday Night Football Night Football" game for the final week of the regular season. The move, which had been in effect for the first eight years of the broadcast (1970–1977), was the result of declining ratings, as well as problems involved for potential playoff teams, as there was a potential of only four days rest between their final regular season game and first-round playoff game. ABC replaced the telecast with an opening weekend Thursday night game, and in exchange ESPN got a Saturday night game on the final weekend. Also during the 2003 season, Lisa Guerrero decided to leave Fox Sports Net's "The

neg: Percy Harvin a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills, coming out of retirement to re-join the team due to injuries to wideouts Sammy Watkins and Greg Salas. On November 7, 2016, Harvin appeared in his first game of the season in a "Monday Night Football" game against his former team, the Seattle Seahawks. Harvin began to experience severe migraine headaches that kept him out two games and was placed on reserve/non-football illness list, ending his season early after coming out of retirement. On March 14, 2017, Harvin announced his retirement from the NFL for the second time in his career. "Source: NFL.com"

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: Dallas Cowboys of the 2009 season was against the New York Giants. A league record-setting 105,121 fans showed up to fill Cowboys Stadium for the game before which the traditional "blue star" at the 50-yard line was unveiled for the first time; however, the Cowboys lost in the final seconds, 33–31. The Cowboys got their first regular season home win on September 28, 2009. They beat the Carolina Panthers 21–7 with 90,588 in attendance. The game was televised on ESPN's "Monday Night Football" and marked a record 42nd win for the Cowboys on "Monday Night Football". On July 25, 2013, the Cowboys

neg: History of the Washington Redskins Newberry, and Citadel College fullback Nehemiah Broughton. Hoping to improve on the previous season’s dismal passing attack, Coach Gibbs added former Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave as his quarterbacks coach. For the first time under Gibbs, the Redskins offense utilized the shotgun formation. The team won its first three games, including a "Monday Night Football" victory over Dallas. The "Monday Night Football" game would go down as one of the greatest comebacks in Redskins history. Trailing 13 to 0 with 3:46 left in the game and facing a 4th down with 15 yards to go at the Dallas 39-yard

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: 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: 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

neg: Monday Night Football bar per each team's possession, the latter of which is now placed inside a green border in the shape of an arrow. As for the score bar itself, it is now back to being shown permanently throughout the game. From to , ABC's "Monday Night Football" coverage began at 9:00 pm. Eastern Time, with game kickoff typically occurring at seven minutes past the hour. Coverage was moved one hour earlier to 8:00 pm. Eastern Time in , with a pre-game show titled "Monday Night Blast", hosted by Chris Berman from the ESPN Zone restaurant in Baltimore preceding the start of

neg: Monday Night Football left the network at the end of the 2005 season. The game, announced by the broadcast team of Tirico, Gruden and Salters, was the first of the 2015–16 NFL playoffs. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Houston Texans 30–0. The ESPN/ABC simulcast continued for both the 2016 season, and the 2017 season as well. ABC televised the Pro Bowl from 1975 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 2003. As part of their 2011 rights agreement, ESPN was given the exclusive rights to the Pro Bowl from 2015 through 2022. Starting in 2018, it will be simulcast on ABC. Monday

neg: WLWT carriage deal was reached between Hearst and Time Warner. In 2014, the station aired a "Thursday Night Football" game from NFL Network (produced by CBS Sports) in lieu of CBS affiliate WKRC-TV, who exercised their option of the right of first refusal. The station today airs up to four Cincinnati Bengals games a year, usually as part of "NBC Sunday Night Football" or ESPN's "Monday Night Football". The latter usually means the delay of "The Voice" to the timeslots normally occupied by a rebroadcast of the fourth hour of "Today" and "Mad Money", with voting limited to the internet on

neg: Blair Walsh game against the Washington Redskins where Walsh missed three field goals in the first half. On November 9, 2017, in a Thursday Night Football game 4 days later Walsh made 2 field goals and 2 extra points in a 22-16 win against the Arizona Cardinals. On November 20, 2017, in a Monday Night Football game against the Atlanta Falcons, Walsh made 3 field goals before coming up a foot short on 52 yard game-tying field goal with 2 seconds left, and Seattle fell short in their comeback, 34-31. On December 3, 2017, in Sunday Night Football game against the 10-1

neg: 2018 NFL season play-by-play announcer in 2017, became the show's studio host from Stamford, Connecticut, with Liam McHugh moving into Tirico's former role. Dan Patrick, who had been the studio host for "FNiA" since 2008, declined to sign a long-term contract and left NBC. On radio, Kurt Warner will replace Boomer Esiason as the color commentator for Westwood One's "Monday Night Football" broadcasts, after Esiason had filled the role for the previous 18 years. Esiason will continue as a studio host for CBS. In a surprise announcement made two days before its first game, Amazon announced it would provide its own broadcast team

neg: 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2 wins each). The ceremony was held on a night other than Sunday for the first time since 1976 (the 28th Primetime Emmy Awards were also staged on a Monday that year, May 17). The ceremony's unusual date — a Monday night in late August — was due to two factors, primary being NBC's commitment to "Sunday Night Football"; since acquiring the National Football League's Sunday night game package in 2006, NBC, when it is their turn in the four-network rotation to air the Primetime Emmy Awards, usually schedules the ceremony for the Sunday before Labor Day weekend, to avoid

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: 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: 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: 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: NBC Sunday Night Football Michele Tafoya as the sideline reporter. Upon NBC's assumption of the Sunday prime time game rights, Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff, who serve as the respective lead producer and director, joined "Sunday Night Football" in the same positions they held during the latter portion of the ABC era of "Monday Night Football". John Madden, the color commentator for the first three years of the program, retired prior to the 2009 season; he was succeeded in that role by Collinsworth. Since 2014, sister cable channel NBC Universo has carried Spanish-language simulcasts of select games, after years of aborted attempts to simulcast

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: 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: Rob Hawthorne finals, the Scottish Cup Final, a number of FA Cup and League Cup semi-finals and two major international tournaments - Euro 92 and World Cup 94. His first live television experience came in 1991, when he covered Brazilian championship football games for Screensport. Hawthorne's move to television was completed as he became part of the Sky Sports commentary team covering Monday night games in the F.A. Premier League; his first live game was Leeds United v Liverpool in August 1995. But after his first season covering Monday Night Football (having commented on the title showdown between Newcastle and Man United)

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