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The first Monday night national telecast was on October 31, 1966, with the St. Louis Cardinals winning at home over the Chicago Bears, 24–17. [19] NBC followed suit in 1968 and 1969 with games involving AFL teams. The Chicago-St. Louis game on October 31, 1966, was a national Monday night telecast except in St. Louis.
From 1960 to 1987, the professional American football team now known as the Arizona Cardinals played in St. Louis, Missouri, as the St. Louis Cardinals. The team moved from Chicago to St. Louis in 1960, and played their first home game there on October 2 at Busch Stadium against the New York Giants .
Television (Broadcast) KSD-TV/KSDK Channel 5 (1949–1987, 2007–2010) KPLR-TV 11 (1988–2006) ... St. Louis Cardinals : History : Cardinals All-Time Broadcasters
This was the first (and only) 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. [7] [8] [9] The MNF broadcast team of Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden and sideline reporter Lisa Salters called the game, the first of the 2014–15 NFL playoffs.
The Monday Night Football broadcast team would cover the game that the network regarded as the marquee matchup of the two. The other game was initially broadcast by ABC's #2 college football broadcast team of Brent Musburger and Dick Vermeil. Beginning with the 1996 season, the other game was broadcast by ESPN's Sunday Night Football team.
NBC made history in the 1980s with an announcerless telecast, which was a one-shot experiment credited to Don Ohlmeyer, between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins in Miami on December 20, 1980, [9] as well as a single-announcer telecast, coverage of the Canadian Football League [10] [11] during the 1982 players' strike (the first week of ...
The city of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States is home to more than a dozen professional, semi-professional, and collegiate sports teams. The Sporting News rated St. Louis the nation's "Best Sports City" in 2000 [1] and the Wall Street Journal named it the best sports city in 2015. [2] St. Louis has three major league sports teams.
In 1974, CBS abandoned the pre-recorded NFL Today broadcast and its short-form wrap-up show, Pro Football Report, for a live, wraparound style program titled The NFL on CBS. [5] It started a half-hour prior to kickoff of either the singleheader or doubleheader telecast (12:30, 1:30 or 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time). On September 15, 1974, the revamped ...