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This article has been mentioned by a media organization: "Marvelous on Monday". ESPN. September, 2004. ((cite news)): Check date values in: |date= (help)

Cool! This page was mentioned on ESPN: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=list/mondaynight-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.121.216.243 (talk) 23:01, 13 September 2004 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A lot of the sources come from forums and not official websites which would have accurate information. I think the article needs to be picked apart and researched with appropriate sources. 38.115.60.50 20:13, 1 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It seems as if a fan does not enjoy the new ESPN Monday Night Football discussion... "he is balding, which doesn't help at all" is definately not NPOV.-— Preceding unsigned comment added by Slastankya (talk • contribs) 06:06, 27 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

ESPN is owned by ABC, so ABC really isn't losing the deal with the NFL, just moving it to another network.-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.33.36.146 (talk) 01:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• ESPN is only partially owned by ABC. In fact, it's more accurate to say both are owned by the Walt Disney Company. ESPN does operate in a matter of speaking, independantly of ABC, although they have fundamental sports ties. Starting in the fall of 2006, the seperate production segment of ABC Sports was dissolved, and all live sports are ESPN productions (thus the "ESPN on ABC" monikor). So it is still accurate to say ABC "lost" MNF. You could say though that WDW still maintained it. Doctorindy 17:46, 30 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If someone knows how get copyright permission from the ap they might want to put the MNF crew picture on this article-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.217.186.68 (talk) 02:27, 7 April 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

berman is the halftime host now and has been for as far back as i can remember, not just 1996-1997--Jaysscholar 20:59, 20 September 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The only non-playoff game I can think of he did was the telethon w/Robin Roberts-— Preceding unsigned comment added by Levineps (talk • contribs) 00:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I found an .mp3 version of the theme song. If someone could find an .mp3 of the other version they used for a while, could they post it on the page as well?--KoopaTroopa211 23:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The theme song to MNF "Heavy Action," was not used until the later part of the 1970s. Mention must be made of the farfisa organ sounding intro and outro theme music during the first three or four years of MNF. User:Efrem7-— Preceding unsigned comment added by Efrem7 (talk • contribs) 05:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• In the late 90s and early 2000s, a secondary theme was used... kind of jazzier, had little in common with the standard MNF theme. Any ideas what it is? MojaveNC 05:52, 26 September 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Seems like the history section currently needs a serious makeover. It's first lead sub-section crams everything and anything. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 18:49, 3 December 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Explain in more detail. The pre-1970 information should be there to offer perspective on how the show developed.-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.213.16.180 (talk) 19:01, 3 December 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Why are some parts of the article in past tense already? They haven't signed off their last telecast yet... --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:05, 27 December 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Shouldn't we use a picture of the actual announcing crew rather than one of actors who portrayed them in a movie? MK2 06:11, 27 December 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

We should. I'll look and see if I can find a picture of the three of them together. MarkLucas 06:43, 27 December 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A quick search on Google didn't find any pictures of the three of them together. Wouldn't there be many pictures of them since they were such icons and worked so well together? MarkLucas 06:46, 27 December 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Does anyone have a list of the games they did-— Preceding unsigned comment added by Levineps (talk • contribs) 00:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• The only one I'm certian of exactly is the 1/1/92 Sugar Bowl. It was shown on ESPN Classic a while back. They did do others, but that would take some research. Doctorindy 17:42, 30 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I restored this image for two reasons: (1) it's the only public domain image in the article as it is a U.S. government illustration, (2) postage-stamp honors are so rare in the U.S., that this merits inclusion in the article. —Twigboy 00:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Would a mention of "NFL GENERIC / AAAAAAAAAAGGGG" be proper if it keeps happening? It's been two weeks so far.-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.76.32.144 (talk) 20:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I could be wrong, but I think someone filled in for Esiason on the radio for Mon. 11/27/06. I listened to the broadcast for a short time, and it did not sound like him. Doctorindy 17:40, 30 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• When did they start using the "Are You Ready For Some Football?" theme song? WizardDuck 21:47, 26 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I remember seeing the 1991 Super Bowl on NFL Network earlier this year (but foolishly didn't record it immediately) and I remember hearing that theme then, so my guess is probably 1990. WAVY 10 19:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I definitely remember it happening in 1989. I remember my freshman year roommate doing an imitation of it. I never saw the guy again after that year, so there's no way it could have been later. I suspect it wasn't earlier, either, but I'm not 100% sure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.175.154.143 (talk) 17:00, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

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If anyone has a chart of the local stations that have shown MNF in a simulcast throughout the 2007 season, similar to one on the Run to the Playoffs page, I would appreciate it being added to this site. - Desmond Hobson (talk) 18:29, 12 December 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You might be able to find that on each of the 2007 <Team Name> season articles. Not sure if every article does it like this article, though.—Twigboy (talk) 21:09, 12 December 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:11, 8 March 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The "Overview" section consists of a long and uncited discussion of the NFL's late-season scheduling practices. Some of the facts and conclusions are questionable. For example, the lack of a MNF game on the last week of the season is attributed to a desire to avoid "scheduling unfairness" due to the MNF teams having one less day of rest before the playoffs. If you actually look at how the last week of the season's schedule runs, you see that there isn't even a Sunday Night game on NBC. Aside from one Friday night game, all games take place on Sunday afternoon at 1:00pm or 4:00pm Eastern Standard Time. If the days of rest issue was driving the scheduling decisions, there presumably would be no Friday night game, but there would be a Sunday night game. The reason there are no night games after the last Sunday afternoon is because the last few teams would have an unfair competitive advantage from knowing the results of all the other contests, not because they would be at a disadvantage from having less downtime before the playoffs. Timothy Horrigan (talk) 21:08, 3 April 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

"It was during one of these teases that Barack Obama spoofed his announcement for the 2008 Presidential candidacy."

Where is the reference for this sentence?

I haven't found a reference for this spoof: no video of the spoof, nor a reference in an article or a blog. 66.43.253.135 (talk) 23:41, 10 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Resolved

 – Source has been added—Bagumba (talk) 23:59, 10 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Why does the "Scoring Records" section include a list of the closest games from 1970 to 1975? The 1975 cut-off is entirely arbitrary, as far as I can tell, except to the extent that it keeps the list from being absurdly long. According to Pro-Football-Reference, there have been 145 MNF games with a margin of three points or less. Even if you limit it to ties and one-point games, that's 35 games—still probably too long, given that there's nothing particularly significant about a one-point game.

So how about this? I'm going to change it from "Closest games" to "Ties". That's three games—the two already on the list from 1971 and 1973, and a Giants-Cardinals game from 1983. If someone can explain to me why it makes sense to list the one-, two-, and three-point games from just the first six years of MNF, I'll be happy to change it back. Jwsinclair (talk) 23:52, 10 December 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ties is good. Way too many games on the list using the previous criteria. --Jtalledo (talk) 16:05, 11 December 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This article does a great job explaining the history of the digital on-screen graphics that ESPN has had over the years. However, we have no visual examples to show what these graphics look like. Without visual examples, this section is pointless. Low resolution examples need to be uploaded using File Upload Wizard and shown in this section to ensure accuracy of what the graphics look like. Thank you.

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History of Monday Night Football apparently has not been significantly updated since 2012 when Jaworski left the booth. Instead editors have been updating Monday Night Football#2010s even though it is currently suppose to be a subsection of "As entertainment". Thus, all this non-entertainment content should be moved to the history page. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Support per nominator. Have a brief history at the main article, more in depth in the history article. --Squeeps10 ^{Talk to me}_{My edits} 23:51, 14 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The really bad call on the roughing Carr was not about possession. It was about a clean sack verses roughing. 172.251.215.202 (talk) 01:39, 11 October 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

the bills-bengals game in 2023 where damar hamlin suffered cardiac arrest peaked at 23-21 million viewers according to CNN. even if the game technically dosent count it was still a broadcast and should probably be included in the table of most watched broadcasts.[1]https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/04/media/monday-night-football-ratings-espn-damar-hamlin/index.html 2600:1017:B113:85B5:ADB2:6CA9:65D0:11A3 (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]