Thanks Monday Night Football, For all the Memories.......
 

MNF on ABC fades into history, and goes into that good night. Thanks for the thrills and whatnot, and all the football memories.

That's all she wrote..36 years gone

Really is a sad day..... MNF on "pay" TV. :disgust


At least Sunday night football will become free to the masses.

Interesting fact.

Jets played the first MNF game and lost 31-21

Played the last one on ABC and lost 31-21

ESPN is basic cable here. Don't even need a box to get it.

Advertisers don't care for people without cable I guess.

Isn't that called... "full circle"?

:)

Sad to see it go but they have handled it pretty shittily for the last few years

for anybody under 30 - maybe under 35 - they have no clue what an event MNF was in the 70's - Cosell made it what it was, back then the halftime highlight package was your only look at alot of teams and games.

turn out the lights the party's over

It helped make the NFL into the nations most popular game by far, and turned the NFL into an economic powerhouse. The NFL is now the most powerful and rich sports league in the world.

And MNF was a helluva show.

But things change. Viewership on Sunday Nights is greater, and NBC came up with the $. And Monday football will now revert to ESPN.

But MNF on ABC.........whatta ride.

Thanks.

Couldn't help getting misty a few times tonight...thanks for all of the memories MNF...

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So many games we watched. Some of them good. Some of them bad. Some of them even great.

But man, if you love football, you loved Monday Night Football on ABC.

Turn out the lights. The party's over. And then I cried.

They want qualified surfers more than freeloaders...Much like the adult business. :thumbsup

Thank god for the NFL Channel. If you don't have it, I highly recommend it, despite the repeat programming. But there was just something special about football on Monday Night on ABC. So many water cooler moments with friends......did you watch the game.......did you see that play???? And so many good moments with friends coming over on Monday to watch.

It will be missed.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mul...content.1.html

Top Ten MNF memories by Sports Illustrated.

The Snow Bowl in Denver........who could ever forget this?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mul...content.4.html

#1 Memory of MNF by Sports Illustrated:

Cosell reports live that John Lennon has just been senselessly assassinated.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mul...ontent.10.html

:(

No they don't. They want male eyeballs in the 25-34 age range.


Network ads aren't sold based on quality, but rather quatity.

That's how I found out..ironic...MFN will be missed

Yeah, MNF moves to ESPN :thumbsup

GFY is the new MNF, where news breaks first (or where news breaks wind, I am never quite sure).

On a serious note, that is where I first heard of Lennon's senseless assassination too...

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It was just a sad day, that day. I still to this day don't know why.

So true! The halftime info back then was really the only way to get video highlights from the sunday games...and Howard Cosell's commentary on them, in the 3-5 minute span, set up what we know today as "normal" on ESPN, etc...
Fitz

Life must go on.. Change is the only constant thing in this world.

I still remember Howard's "Halftime Highlights" :thumbsup

Good memories - remember that OJ used to be an announcer for a few years :) and still remember the earlier attempts they made back in the late 60s (although only done locally in some areas before the blackout rules) and those games were kicking!

thanks for the good times

they usually show allot of the ESPN stuff on TSN up here, I hope they do the same with MNF.
Anyone ever see the movie they did for MNF? Was was frickin great!

I think you'll see the stock in Sunday night football pick up allot too. Specially with Madden going over etc... Any news on who else is going to work MNF now? I know Michaels is supposed to be staying..gawd I hope we dont see Denis Miller again..gawd I couldnt stand him.

hasta la vista - thanks for the memories

At least they didnt pick the other contender when they picked him - Rush Limbaugh was the other person considered at the time

It's Dennis Miller's fault :( RIP MNF

fuck did he ever suck.

Last few years? I'd say since the Madden era it has been shitty