Beginning with the 1997 season, the ESPN Sunday Night Football crew called the first game, with the ABC MNF crew calling the second game. 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). Except for Seattle and Portland from 1970 to 1995, ABC World News Tonight was routinely preempted on most West Coast affiliates, though the ABC network-owned stations (e.g. From 1970 to 1997, ABC's Monday Night Football coverage began at 9 pm. Watch Next. However, the forecasting abilities of the NFL's scheduling officials have exhibited uncanny proficiency. KOMO then tried to accommodate having to air its local newscasts earlier than its local station competitors by marketing it as KOMO 4 News Primetime, touting it as a way to watch the news at a more convenient time than during evening rush hour. [62] In 2018, the game was simulcast on ABC. Monday Night Football has continued to provide as much entertainment as sports throughout its run. This was because of the NFL’s rule that requires local affiliates to allow viewers over-the-air access to the game. NFL to … In addition, Gordon was a halftime guest on the game just before the season-ending Ford 400 and was joined by teammate Jimmie Johnson. On September 7, 2013, the NFL announced that British Eurosport would show Monday Night Football games live in the United Kingdom for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. At the end of the song, Williams Jr. touched a foot pump, which supposedly contained the helmets of that night's participating teams. Celebrity guests – such as former Vice President Spiro Agnew, singers Plácido Domingo and former Beatle John Lennon, President Bill Clinton, and even Kermit the Frog – were often featured during the game to "liven up" the broadcast. On the East Coast, with MNF beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, there was an hour of primetime in which to schedule regular programming. 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Neville & Carragher's Team of the Year Watch Now. It features computer-generated imagery showing a city being transformed into a football stadium and passers-by on the street turning into players, coaches, fans, and officials set to an updated orchestral treatment of the "Heavy Action" theme song. At the end of each game, Williams returned to say, "See you in (city that is the site of the next week's game)." ESPN Monday Night Football (abbreviated as MNF and also known as ESPN Monday Night Football on ABC for rare live special broadcasts) is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States. Colts, BUF After MNF moved to ESPN in 2006 (around the same time that ABC Sports rebranded as ESPN on ABC), ESPN adopted new red and black graphics with heavier use of 3D elements and animations. 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. With Suzy Kolber reassigned to the new studio show NFL32, and Michele Tafoya having left ESPN for NBC Sunday Night Football, the sideline reporter position rotated between various reporters for the season. Josh Norman (Redskins), Larry Fitzgerald (Cardinals) and Rob Gronkowski (Patriots) are among the current players being represented in the open, with Franco Harris (Steelers), Jerry Rice (49ers), Barry Sanders (Lions) and Bruce Smith (Bills) among the past players being represented. Since 2006, the structure of the Brazilian feed has been merged with ESPN Brasil and the broadcasting is done from São Paulo. The highest-rated Monday Night Football telecast on ABC was the Miami Dolphins' victory over the previously undefeated Chicago Bears on December 2, 1985, which drew a national Nielsen rating of 29.6 and a share of 46. Its main competitor, Murphy Brown on CBS, averaged a 12.3 rating.[59]. [45] The MNF scoreboard retained a similar layout to before, but with new fonts and only showing team logos. Among the few changes, GMC's product placement promoted the automaker's line of Denali vehicles, while the sequence itself included some additional highlights of MNF games from the previous 44 seasons up to 2013. [17] Lisa Salters remained the sideline reporter. Fox and NBC have used their Fox Deportes and Universo cable networks to air similar broadcasts for their Super Bowl games, but CBS did not own a mainstream Spanish-language cable channel of its own at the time. [49][50][51][52][53][54], In 2017 and 2018, ESPN2 simulcast 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). The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Houston Texans 30–0. © 2021 NFL Enterprises LLC. As a result of this, the NFL wished to move the "Game of the Week" idea to Sunday nights as to make flex scheduling possible. In the case of Guam, KTGM, the ABC affiliate in that U.S. territory, aired MNF live on Tuesdays at 11 a.m., as Guam is a day ahead of the United States due to being located on the other side of International Date Line. The 80-second opening animation sequence, which also featured Pac-Man, Darth Vader and President Ronald Reagan, was created by actor/filmmaker Peter Berg. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. Best Games In the first instance, the September 13 game against the Baltimore Ravens, it was delayed 25 minutes; the second delay, prior to the October 11 contest against the Minnesota Vikings, lasted for 40 minutes. Dolphins, CLE The Spanish-language broadcast is carried on ESPN Deportes Radio. [55][56][57] In the 2020-21 playoffs, ESPN Deportes also aired an AFC Divisional Playoff game and the AFC Championship Game.[58]. The sequence began every week with a different celebrity walking down the street, picking up a glowing football helmet with the ESPN logo on the side and saying, "I'm ready for some football! Additionally, this practice was done in Hawaii, where Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV delayed the game until 7 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Time, corresponding to 11 p.m. or midnight Eastern during daylight saving time on the mainland. Browns. ET. From 2003 to 2005, one game was played on Thursday and another Monday under the Monday Night Football banner. None of them traveled to the game sites and there were no sideline reporters in the early weeks. ESPN2 had previously scheduled lesser-viewed filler programming during the period. Steelers, LAR See which teams are playing this week or plan your Mondays for the entire NFL season. Raiders, DET To … ESPN underwent another broadcast booth shakeup, as Jason Witten left to return to the Dallas Cowboys, and rules analyst Jeff Triplette left after one season. Here is everything to know about how to watch Week 13's "Monday Night Football." The Acadia then heads to a glitzy red carpet at the stadium's entrance, where McDonough, Gruden and Salters exit the car, followed on the carpet by a flood of NFL players representing the past and present of MNF. Celebrities for 2006 included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matthew Fox, Hugh Hefner, Paris Hilton, Spike Lee, Ashton Kutcher, Samuel L. Jackson, Ludacris, Jack Black, Kiefer Sutherland, James Belushi, Ben Stiller, Tyra Banks, Carmen Electra, and Eva Longoria. For the 2008 season, a new graphics scheme was introduced, in which a scorebar and all lower thirds were confined to a dedicated "dashboard" area spanning across the bottom the screen. Monday Night Football is also broadcast in Canada on TSN and RDS, and in most of Europe. Packers, PHI As with other regular-season NFL games, Monday night games are also broadcast locally by the featured teams' own radio networks and announcers. Paul market, when NBC affiliate KARE took over as the local broadcaster of MNF games, if the Minnesota Vikings were playing a game being simulcast on local ABC affiliate KSTP-TV, sister independent station KSTC-TV aired DWTS live). The practice, long opposed by viewers and ABC, ended in 1996. On the opening weekend, Arnold Schwarzenegger, another celebrity-turned-California governor, was in the booth at McAfee Coliseum in Oakland, California; before that, Jamie Foxx appeared at FedExField in suburban Washington, D.C. The 2006 telecast generally began with a cinematic tease produced by Rico Labbe, Michael Sciallis, and Jason Jobes. [27], The December 21 matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals featured the Muppets and was themed as "Muppet Night Football." The new contracts also see ABC re-enter the Super Bowl rotation, beginning with Super Bowl LXI in 2027. 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". This is the 1973 intro to ABC's Monday Night Football. As a result, network programs scheduled for prime time on the East Coast were broadcast at various hours on the West Coast. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. The 40th season had the highest season viewership for MNF since ESPN acquired the rights to the broadcast.[9]. The NFL schedule has been leaking all … On December 8, 1980, one of the most memorable moments of MNF occurred when Cosell announced in a news flash that John Lennon had been shot and killed in New York City. In 2011, Westwood One was purchased by Dial Global. This was the first NFL Playoff game to get a Megacast treatment. As of 2008, Westwood One was no longer controlled by CBS, but the network retained its NFL broadcast rights. Monday Night Football will air on ESPN at 8:15pm during the NFL regular season. 5y ESPN.com. Week 1 —Pittsburgh Steelers @ New York Giants, 7:15 p.m., ESPN Week 1 … Monday Night Football (MNF) (also known as Bet365 or Renault Monday Night Football for sponsorship reasons) is a British football programme on Sky Sports which broadcasts live English football from the Premier League. Moss played only four games for Minnesota until he was waived on November 2. 2021 Monday Night TV Football Schedule: Who plays Monday Night Football this week? Source: Packers, in need of QBs, adding Bortles. In 1996, Howard David and Matt Millen replaced Buck and Stram. Before Williams Jr. appears, Frank Gifford gave a short vignette about a memorable moment in the history of MNF featuring one or both of the teams playing that night's game. 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.[6]. The December 9, 1974 contest featured a rare instance of two celebrities entering the booth, with Lennon being interviewed by Howard Cosell and California governor Ronald Reagan speaking with Frank Gifford, with Reagan explaining the rules of American football (off-camera) to Lennon as the game went along. Also among the many changes is the highlights of MNF games – this time, they are set inside a computer-generated stadium using 3D imagery – from the previous 45 seasons up to 2014. Monday Night Football has also been carried on national radio networks over the years. The video is also used by the Super Bowl telecast for ESPN Brasil, dubbed with Portuguese commentary.[68][69]. [2] The telecasts are also seen in most of Australia on ESPN Australia, in Portugal on SportTV 3 and SportTV HD and on TV 2 Sport in Denmark, and in some other regions of the world outside the U.S. on ESPN International. Thus, the game, which was broadcast live on local radio starting at 3 or 4 p.m., was almost over before it aired on television. Monday Night Football odds, line: Vikings vs. Bears picks, predictions from NFL expert on 35-12 roll R.J. White has his finger on the pulse of Dalvin Cook and the Minnesota Vikings ESPN Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League games on ESPN in the United States. Since 2006, a Spanish-language telecast is also broadcast on ESPN Deportes, the Spanish version of ESPN and on ESPN Latin America, featuring NBA and NFL play-by-play announcer Álvaro Martín, Super Bowl winner Raul Allegre as color commentator and John Sutcliffe as the field reporter. Marv Albert and Boomer Esiason were the MNF radio voices from 2002 to 2009, with Kevin Harlan replacing Albert in 2010. The Sky Sports pundits … Lower third graphics replaced the scorebar when in use. Lisa Salters was named the permanent solo sideline reporter for the 2012 season. 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. [38] It was slightly modified in 2000 to have a border that was more in line with the red and yellow color scheme. MNF celebrated its 600th game broadcast on October 20, 2008 in a game which the New England Patriots defeated the Denver Broncos, 41–7. After MNF was awarded to ESPN and Sunday Night Football was acquired by NBC in 2006, the Wild Card doubleheader that had aired on ABC, as well as a share of the rotating rights to the Super Bowl, was also given to NBC. Originally, ABC's college football crews would call the first Wild Card Game. Witten was not replaced, therefore making the 2019 broadcast team consist of Joe Tessitore (play-by-play), Booger McFarland (color commentator) and Lisa Salters (sideline reporter). In three seasons on ESPN, MNF has registered seven of the top 10 all-time largest household audiences in cable history, led by the Eagles-Cowboys telecast on September 15, 2008, which attracted cable's largest household audience ever (an average of 12,953,000 homes). For the second year in a row, and the third time overall, the beginning of the 10:15 p.m. Eastern Time game (Oakland Raiders at Denver Broncos) was shown on ESPN2 as the game that began at 7:00 pm. A revision of the opening sequence was used for the 2014 season. Monday Night Football. The franchise with the most Monday night appearances is the Miami Dolphins. 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. To replace Monday Night Football, ABC turned its series of primetime college football specials, which had run until 1975 and again from 1990 to 1993 and from 1996 onward, into a regular series. ESPN's 17 MNF telecasts in 2008 averaged an 8.9 rating, representing an average of 8,679,000 households (11,962,000 viewers), increases of 3%, 5% and 7%, respectively, vs. 2007 (8.6; 8,277,000 and 11,230,000).[61]. Patriots, ARI Here is the complete prime time TV schedule for the 2020 NFL season, with start times and channels for every Thursday, Sunday and Monday night football game. Monday Night Football fixtures. [14][15] In addition, Booger McFarland, who has been a college football analyst for the network since 2014, joined the MNF team as field analyst and consultant. The result was a larger scorebug with a more conventional font. Then in 2014, Dial Global, including Westwood One, was acquired by Cumulus Media. Saints, SEA For ABC's last MNF game in 2005, Williams Jr.'s rendition of "Turn Out the Lights, The Party's Over", closed the broadcast.[31]. At the end of the sequence, helmets featuring logos of that night's two participating teams are shown, followed by the various Monday Night Football logos used since the program's debut in 1970. The Monday Night Football schedule is out, and the matchups seem to get better every season. This both forces the affiliate to air that program immediately after late-evening local newscasts, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Nightline and has resulted in the program's telephone and Internet voting coordinators keeping a late-night voting window open for the market or markets where Dancing with the Stars was pre-empted. Starting with the 2024 game, the Pro Bowl will air on ABC alone. The highest-rated MNF game on ESPN, and the highest-rated program in U.S. cable television history at that time, was the Minnesota Vikings' defeat of the Green Bay Packers 30–23 on October 5, 2009, with a rating of 15.3. In addition, color commentator Ron Jaworski did not return to the booth after 5 seasons. Are you? The announcement of the Playoff Megacast went along with the announcement of ABC simulcasting two late-season MNF games that aired on ESPN (both games involving the Buffalo Bills). It stuck. For the 2015 season, ESPN introduced another overhaul of its MNF graphics, with a new scoreboard spanning the bottom of the screen, capable of being faded away when plays are in progress. When the league expanded the playoffs from a 10-team to a 12-team tournament in 1990, ABC was then given the rights to air the first two Wild Card Playoff games. Gifford provided new vignettes and the Parthenon scenes were repeated from the year before. Titans, NO It is highly recommended that you use the latest versions of a supported browser in order to receive an optimal viewing experience. MNF is preceded on air by Monday Night Countdown. ESPN's third season of MNF was the most-watched program on cable television in 2008, setting an all-time cable viewership record for the third straight year and drawing that year's three largest cable household audiences and 13 of the top 15. The network also brought back Hank Williams Jr. to perform "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night", which for the first time since 2011, he performed solo, as Florida Georgia Line and Jason Derulo all departed after two seasons. The title sequence for the 40th season of MNF featured Hank Williams, Jr. seen on the steps of a building (presumably a museum), surrounded by dancers, football fans, and statues/busts – which, along with everyone else in the scene, begin to move and dance – patterned after those at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night" featuring country music legend Hank Williams, Jr., country music duo Florida-Georgia Line and R&B singer Jason Derulo returned from the previous season and is once again seen just before the opening kickoff. Eastern Time, with game kickoff typically occurring at seven minutes past the hour. There have been issues with local stations in the ESPN era, where stations in each team's home market that air the ESPN simulcast are in most cases ABC affiliates, which must pre-empt Dancing with the Stars to air the NFL. Due to the Thousand Oaks shooting, and the then-ongoing Northern California wildfires, the opening intro was not shown during the November 12 broadcast between Pro Bowl WR Odell Beckham Jr. and the New York Giants and Super Bowl-winning CB Richard Sherman and the San Francisco 49ers and also, the historic Chiefs-Rams game the following week (November 19). 29m Rob Demovsky. Find out what NFL teams are on Monday Night Football tonight. The Mutual Broadcasting System aired the games initially, with Van Patrick (1972–1973), Lindsey Nelson (1974–1977) and Al Wester announcing. On September 29 (Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers), ESPN used "Another Way to Die", a duet between Alicia Keys and Jack White of 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. The telecast ended with a vignette that featured Gifford taking a look back at highlights from the previous four decades – and the 40th season – of MNF, after which the book closed, signifying the end of the 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. After 50 seasons, there have been over 700 games televised by Monday Night Football. An ABC advertisement for MNF featuring Nicollette Sheridan of Desperate Housewives dropping her towel in front of Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens created some controversy, including at least 1,997 complaints being sent to the FCC and outrage from FCC chairman Michael Powell.[7]. Monday Night Football. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. That year, it introduced the "clashing helmets" intro, with on-screen graphics consisting of italicized text underlined in red. 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. The guest visits continued: Barkley returned to the booth on September 17 in Philadelphia. The success of MNF has always been about the games and that will continue. 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