Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League games on ESPN in the United States. 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. Monday night games early in the season are often highly anticipated since records are new, teams usually are showcasing fresh talent and potential, and storylines coming into the season. The most common Monday night pairings are Broncos vs. Raiders and Cowboys vs. Cowboys.
About Monday Night Football in brief
Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League games on ESPN in the United States. 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. 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. In 2011, ESPN extended its contract for the show for an additional eight seasons, giving it rights to the broadcasts until 2021. Monday night games early in the season are often highly anticipated since records are new, teams usually are showcasing fresh talent and potential, and storylines coming into the season. The most common Monday night pairings are Broncos vs. Raiders and Cowboys vs. Cowboys. The defunct Candlestick Park in San Francisco currently holds the record for most Monday night appearances with the San Francisco 49ers tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most wins on September 14, 2020. The league currently expanding flexible scheduling to Monday night Football, citing the logistical issues of moving back and forth between Sundays and Mondays. It is also possible for a team like the 1999 St. Louis Rams not to be scheduled for a Monday night game because of its dismal record the year before, and many other NFL teams have had huge unforeseen turnarounds that result in lack of MNF attention.
After 50 seasons, there have been over 700 games televised by Monday Night football. Many MNF games feature at least one team that is either headed to the playoffs or must win the MNF game to clinch a playoff spot. On September 7, 2013, the NFL announced that British Eurosport would show Monday night football games live in the UK for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. The NFL wished to move the “Game of the Week” idea to Sunday as to make the end of Monday nights possible. This was a move which would ultimately mean the end of Monday night Monday Football on ABC. The Miami Dolphins is the franchise with the most Monday nights appearances on Monday night, including the 36th and final game on December 23, 2013. They had both had both won on the same night in 2008 and 2009, when they were playing the New England Patriots. The San Diego Chargers are the most recent Monday night team to play on the Monday night slot, having done so in 2011 and 2012. The Chargers have won the most games on Monday nights on Monday, with 23, including all three games in 2012 and 2013. The Dallas Cowboys have the most Mondays on Monday Nights, having won the last two games on the night of December 23 and December 24, 2013 and 2013, respectively. The Denver Broncos are the only team to have won more Monday nights than the 49ers in the last five years of the NFL season, with two wins in each of the last three seasons.
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