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Monday Night Football (1970)

Monday Night Football poster
Original title
Monday Night Football With Peyton and Eli
Directed by
Chet Forte, Andy Sidaris, Drew Esocoff
Genre
sports television program
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 1 episode
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Monday Night Football is a live weekly broadcast of NFL games played on Monday nights. It has been a long-running television tradition showing professional American football.

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What happens

Monday Night Football (often abbreviated as MNF) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that air on Monday nights. It originally ran on ABC from 1970 to 2005, before moving exclusively to sister network ESPN from 2006 to 2019. While still airing on ESPN, MNF returned to ABC in 2020 beginning with select simulcasts, later expanding to select exclusive telecasts in 2022, and the bulk of games in simulcast with ESPN since 2023. In addition, ESPN2 features the Manningcast alternate telecast of select games, which was established in 2020, and since 2021, ESPN+ has served as the streaming home of MNF in the U.S. During its initial run on ABC, MNF became one of the longest-running American television series, as well as one of the highest-rated, particularly among male viewers. Since 1993, it has been preceded by the ESPN pregame show Monday Night Countdown. Per an NFL broadcasting policy intended to allow those who do not subscribe to cable or satellite television to see local games televised by a pay television network, the ESPN-exclusive games are also made available on an over-the-air station in each participating team's local market. MNF is broadcast in Canada on TSN and RDS, in most of Australia on ESPN Australia, in Portugal on Eleven Sports, on TV 2 Sport in Denmark, on Sky Sports/DAZN in the United Kingdom, and in some other regions of the world outside the U.S. on ESPN International. A Spanish-language version airs on ESPN Deportes in the U.S. and on ESPN International in Latin America, while a Portuguese version airs on ESPN Brasil. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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