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The November 30 game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks marked the final Monday Night Football game at the Kingdome, which was the last MNF game in Seattle until 2002. The December 28 game between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers marked running back Barry Sanders 's debut on Monday Night Football and the final ...
In 1970, ABC executive producer for sports Roone Arledge hired Cosell to be a commentator for Monday Night Football (MNF), the first time in 15 years that American football was broadcast weekly in prime time. Cosell was accompanied most of the time by ex-football players Frank Gifford and "Dandy" Don Meredith. Cosell in the broadcast booth, 1975
The game was originally scheduled to be played at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, but was moved to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (the Rams' home stadium at the time, which itself last hosted a Monday Night Football game in 1985) due to the poor field conditions at the former. The Rams defeated the Chiefs by a score of 54–51.
This was the last Monday Night Football game at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Nov. 13, 1995: Pittsburgh Steelers 20, Cleveland Browns 3 ... the team had to play a prime-time game in ...
Billy Crystal told a funny story to Stephen Colbert on Monday about guest-hosting “The Tonight Show” back in the 1980s and having to deal with a “looped” and sobbing Howard Cosell. (Watch ...
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. Howard 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 ...
The following is a list of sportscasters who have served as commentators for Monday Night Football broadcasts on various networks, along with each commentator's period of tenure on the show (beginning years of each season shown, as the NFL season ends in the calendar year after it begins). Game announcers used in #2 games usually come from ESPN ...
Thursday Night Football (TNF) was a good get for Amazon Prime, explaining the astronomical price tag on rights, but it was a kind of “flea flicker” in NFL parlance, moving the real action ...