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By HAL BOCK, AP Sports Writer
December 25, 2005 From its inception, ABC's "Monday Night Football" was a risky experiment that defied American sports tradition. From Howard Cosell's pontification to Don Meredith's down-home songs to Dennis Miller's arcane analogies, it dominated TV viewing in homes and bars across the nation......

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I think ESPN will do a terrific job with MNF, its just strange to me that something thats been on one station since five years before I was born will be somewhere else next year. Can't wait to see it.
yea its just not right
I heard it was movin to NBC
Just Sad
"Cowhunter30" Wrote:I heard it was movin to NBC

ABC is turning it over to ESPN:

Television sports reaches the end of one era and the beginning of another Monday night when ABC signs off on its prime-time weeknight coverage of the NFL for the final time and hands off to sister network ESPN.
hmm...new broadcasters, or are they tryin to get Madden back?
"Cowhunter30" Wrote:I heard it was movin to NBC

I'm not positive, but I think with the MNF game moving from ABC to ESPN, I thought I heard that ESPN was dropping their Sunday night game and it would be moving to NBC.