Monday Night Football has continued to provide as much entertainment as sports throughout its run. Washington (matched up 14 times as of the start of the 2009–10 season) both are division games between bitter rivals and draw substantial interest from fans of other teams as well. Oakland (matched up 15 times as of the start of the 2009–10 season), and Dallas vs. The most common Monday Night Football pairings are Denver vs. The franchise with the most Monday night appearances is the Miami Dolphins. The new rule applies only to CBS, Fox, and NBC's Sunday night games.) (Cable games are protected from the NFL's flexible scheduling rule adopted for the 2006–07 season. This was a move which would ultimately mean the end of Monday Night Football on ABC. As a result of this, the league wished to move the "Game of the Week" idea to Sunday nights as to make flex scheduling possible. The problem of having a national spotlight game which during the season's most critical weeks late in the year probably would not show the most important game of the week was long known by the league and network. However, the forecasting abilities of the NFL's schedule-makers have generally been proficient over the years, resulting in most late-season MNF games featuring at least one team that is either headed to the playoffs or needs to win the MNF game to clinch/get closer to a playoff spot. 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 (these teams generally receive multiple MNF spots the year after their breakout success, which is great for viewers if those teams continue to play well, and not so great if they return to mediocrity or worse).
It is also possible for a team like the 1999 St. It had seemed like a good pre-season matchup since the Falcons had played in the previous season's Super Bowl and the 49ers coming into the '99 season had posted 16 consecutive 10-win seasons). Teams thought to be good during the off-season could be out of playoff contention by mid-season (a prime example occurring in 1999, when the 49ers and Falcons both entered the season's final MNF game with 4-11 records. Unfortunately, since the MNF schedule is set in April and cannot be changed, the league and network cannot guarantee a late season match up will have any significance or be highly anticipated. Since no one knows during the first month of the season if a team is indeed good, or will rebound from a difficult start, interest is usually high for the first few weeks of the MNF season. 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 are often played out as fans try to see if these hyped teams are up to form.
Monday night game score series#
Starting in 2006, when the series moved to cable, two games are played on the opening Monday night to capitalize on fan interest during "Kickoff Weekend". From 2003 until 2005, one game was played on Thursday and another Monday under the Monday Night Football banner.
To avoid any scheduling unfairness where a team may have five days between games and others six before the first playoff game, there is no Monday night game during the final week of the regular season. See also: List of Monday Night Football commentators Scheduling problems Īs of December 27, 2010, the Monday Night Football franchise had aired a total of 643 games. The games are also made available on regular over-the-air television stations in each participating team's local market so that households without cable television can still see the telecast. and on ESPN International in Latin America. A Spanish language version airs on ESPN Deportes in the U.S.
Monday night game score tv#
On 29 March 2010 it was announced that MNF would be shown on ESPN UK, in most of Australia on One HD, in Portugal on SportTV 3 and SportTV HD and on TV 2 Sport in Denmark, and in some regions of the world outside the U.S. Monday Night Football can also be seen in Canada on TSN and RIS, and in most of Europe on ESPN America. Monday Night Football was, along with Hallmark Hall of Fame, and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest running prime time commercial network television series ever, and one of the highest-rated, particularly among male viewers. Monday Night Football ( MNF) is a live broadcast of the National Football League on ESPN.
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