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[[File:monday_night_football.jpg|frame|Are you ready for some football?]]
''Monday Night Football'' is a [[Long Runner|long-running]] weekly broadcast of NFL ([[American Football]]) games. Debuting in 1970 on [[ABC]], the program was conceived as both an answer to Major League Baseball's ''Game of the Week'' (and the NHL's ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'') and a showcase for the best teams in the NFL, as the league traditionally uses the coveted ''Monday Night'' slot to spotlight matches between high caliber teams.
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''Monday Night Football'' remains popular even with the jump to cable and routinely ends up in the Top Ten Nielsen ratings chart every Monday. And with the games on cable, it's now possible to have a season-opening Monday night doubleheader with one game beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern time and the second at 10:15 Eastern. The later game usually involves two west-coast teams (usually the currently awful Raiders have been involved to much viewer and advertiser annoyance) but in 2010, it will be the showcase for the newly-remodeled Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs (a 9:15 p.m. kickoff locally). It also gives ESPN a prominent day to market everything about their network, and all programming is focused around both Monday morning quarterbacking and hyping that night's game.
=== Monday Night Football has been
* ABC (1970-2005)
* ESPN and ESPN2 (2006-present, as well as a couple of one-off '90s games)
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* [[FOX]] (postponed 2010 New York Giants-Minnesota Vikings game, moved to Detroit's Ford Field due to a roof collapse in Minneapolis's Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome; the game only aired in New York, Albany, NY, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Rochester, MN)
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* [[Bearer of Bad News]]: During a broadcast Howard Cosell broke the news of [[John Lennon]]'s death on Dec. 8, 1980.
* [[Bootstrapped Theme]]: Now universally recognized as the ''MNF'' theme music, Johnny Pearson's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIxeOvClzR4 Heavy Action]" was originally used only as accompaniment for halftime highlights, and didn't become the opening theme until several years later. (The original opening theme was a funky organ-based piece called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV-pYT4wldc Score]".)
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