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ABC was losing $$$ and decided to dump the program. The NFL shopped things around and ESPN felt they could make money with it having a captive audience vice a broadcast audience.
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This is interesting, since Disney is simply showing MNF on a different channel that they own. So Disney isn't really dumping MNF. It is also odd that ESPN would out-bid ABC for the MNF contract - they were competing with only each other, since NBC and CBS have Letterman and Leno, and wouldn't bid for MNF rights. Also, in response to another poster, I believe ABC is not showing football at all next year, as NBC will take over ESPN's rights to sunday night football.
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Duh. That's right. It's been a long weekend. So long its already Monday night.
Part of what I said still makes sense though.
Part makes sense? There goes your perfect record.
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talk about the game while it is being played? Some of us really would rather watch the game than a graphic of camera operators, but that's just us.
The worst part about the MNF announcing is even if you want to switch them off and listen to radio, you have to deal with a delay. Haha.
Was a funny situation watching a MNF game in a box in Gillette a few months (vs. Indy ) -- you have the MNF TV monitors you can look at, which are at least 7 seconds behind, so you can watch a play on the field then turn to watch the "replay" on "live" TV, all the while with the radio broadcast blaring, which is already a good 3 seconds behind the live action.
I believe that is what they call information overload.
ABC can't even manage to cover a retrospective tribute properly. The only thing even remotely interesting would have been actually seeing and hearing some clips from MNF. Instead, they set it to some stupid soundtrack song. Figures.
What drives me nuts, besided the lists of people, is when they show the 2 guys in the booth, during the game, talking to each other. I mean its 2 guys in suits just standing there, and the play is going on. How stupid can TV people be, they are supposed to be heard at a football game and not seen.
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The worst part about the MNF announcing is even if you want to switch them off and listen to radio, you have to deal with a delay. Haha.
He heeeeeeeeeeee Not me, I've got a DVR, so I just pause the game until it gets to the point the internet radio is at and then start it. It's a bit of a ***** to get synched but once it's synched it's awesome.
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The funniest MNF memory was told by Frank Gifford on the NFL Network pregame show.
Gifford recounted his phone call to Don Merideth telling him that Kathy Lee Gifford was expecting their first child (this was when Frank G. must have been about 80 years old).
According to Gifford, "Dandy Don paused for a moment upon hearing the news and then said, 'Don't worry, Frank, I'll get that son of a ***** no matter who he is...."
It is also odd that ESPN would out-bid ABC for the MNF contract - they were competing with only each other, since NBC and CBS have Letterman and Leno, and wouldn't bid for MNF rights.
The NFL has essentially switched Sunday Night with Monday Night next year. The Sunday night package is going to get the better schedule and also have the ability to change the time of games late in the season so they get the premier match-up of the week.
Monday Night Football next year will be the one that fufills the NFL's goal of getting every team on in prime time so it will have the Lions, Cardinals, etc. Sunday night does that now.
All ESPN did was retain the package it already had.
The NFL has essentially switched Sunday Night with Monday Night next year. The Sunday night package is going to get the better schedule and also have the ability to change the time of games late in the season so they get the premier match-up of the week.
Most of this is "so what?" -- they switched networks.
This ability to switch games mid-stream could be a real problem for some people. You plan to go to a 1 pm game on the road, get a flight back that night so you can work the next day ... and then they change your game to a night game.
) -- you have the MNF TV monitors you can look at, which are at least 7 seconds behind, so you can watch a play on the field then turn to watch the "replay" on "live" TV, all the while with the radio broadcast blaring, which is already a good 3 seconds behind the live action. 
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