Monday Night Football

Live television broadcast of weekly National Football League

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2024 MJ Acosta-Ruiz joins Monday Night Football on ESPN Deportes as sideline reporter.
December 30 2024 San Francisco 49ers lost to Detroit Lions 40-34 on Monday Night Football
December 9 2024 Dallas Cowboys lost to Cincinnati Bengals 27-20 on Monday Night Football
November 25 2024 Los Angeles Chargers lost to Baltimore Ravens 30-23 on Monday Night Football
November 4 2024 Kansas City Chiefs defeated Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30-24 in overtime on Monday Night Football
October 28 2024 Pittsburgh Steelers defeated New York Giants 26-18 on Monday Night Football
October 28 2024 ESPN announced that ESPN+ and Disney+ will stream an alternate animated broadcast of the Cincinnati Bengals vs. Dallas Cowboys Monday Night Football game using player tracking data and characters from The Simpsons.
October 21 2024 ESPN+ exclusively streamed the second game of a split Monday Night Football doubleheader.
October 14 2024 New York Jets lost to Buffalo Bills 23-20 on Monday Night Football
October 11 2024 ABC announced simulcasts of six additional Monday Night Football games, bringing the ESPN/ABC simulcast total to twelve.
September 16 2024 Philadelphia Eagles lost to Atlanta Falcons 22-21 on Monday Night Football
January 6 2024 Indianapolis Colts played on Monday Night Football, losing to Houston Texans 23-19
2023 New NFL TV contracts expanded ESPN/ABC playoff coverage to include a Divisional Round game in addition to the Wild Card Game.
2023 ESPN Deportes introduces a new Monday Night Football team with Rebeca Landa (play-by-play), Sergio Dipp (analyst), Katia Castorena (sideline reporter), and John Sutcliffe continuing to provide site reports.
2023 NFL expanded flex scheduling to Monday Night Football, allowing game changes based on season's most critical matchups.
2023 ESPN debuted new on-air presentation for NFL broadcasts with a glossier, neon-themed graphics package.
2023 ESPN/ABC begins a new 10-year contract for Monday Night Football broadcasting rights.
December 2023 In Week 15, the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots game was the first to be flexed out of Monday Night Football, replaced by the Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks matchup.
October 16 2023 ESPN2 simulcasts ESPN Deportes' Spanish-language presentation of Monday Night Football featuring the Dallas Cowboys and L.A. Chargers.
October 1 2023 ESPN+ carried an International Series game with a unique youth-oriented alternate broadcast featuring animated Toy Story characters using player tracking data.
September 2023 ABC added 10 more simulcasts due to scheduling changes during the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes, bringing total broadcasts to 21 games.
January 1 2023 First NFL season where New Year's Day fell on a Monday in the penultimate week of the regular season, resulting in no Monday games scheduled for the final two weeks to avoid conflict with the College Football Playoff.
2022 ESPN began a new 5-year deal to Megacast the 'Monday Night Wild Card Game' during NFL playoffs, expanding Wild Card Weekend to three days.
October 30 2022 ESPN+ broadcasted an International Series Monday Night Football game.
September 19 2022 ABC carried an exclusive Monday Night Football game during the NFL season.
2021 Monday Night Football's 52nd season began without a season-opening doubleheader, breaking a tradition since 2005, with the opening game being the Baltimore Ravens–Las Vegas Raiders matchup.
2021 ESPN extended their deal with Omaha Productions for an additional year due to the success of the Manningcast's first season.
2021 ESPN+ begins serving as the U.S. streaming home for Monday Night Football.
2021 Pro Bowl was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ESPN, ABC, and the NFL instead aired a two-hour special honoring the selected Pro Bowl players.
2021 ESPN and the NFL agreed to a new broadcast contract, expanding ABC's involvement and adding an International game on ESPN+. The contract introduced a Saturday doubleheader in Week 18 with games at 4:15 ET and 8:15 ET, both simulcast on ABC.
July 19 2021 ESPN announced a partnership with Omaha Productions to produce alternate telecasts of Monday Night Football featuring Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, and guest celebrities for ten games per season from 2021 through 2023.
2020 Buffalo Bills-New England Patriots game was simulcast on ABC.
2020 Super Wild Card Playoff Game was Megacast across multiple networks including ESPN, ABC, ESPN Deportes, ESPN2, ESPN+, and Freeform.
2020 Buffalo Bills-San Francisco 49ers game was simulcast on ABC, with the game played in Glendale instead of Santa Clara due to COVID-19 sports restrictions.
September 2020 ESPN and ABC begin jointly broadcasting Monday Night Football games, continuing the tradition of national television coverage for weekly NFL games that started in 1970.
2019 New graphics scheme introduced with monochrome photography, smoke, liquid metal, and a black, white, and lime color scheme, retaining a similar scoreboard layout with new fonts and team logos.
2019 Last year of the Monday Night Football game list coverage period, concluding ESPN's documented Monday Night Football game listings.
2017 ESPN2 begins simulcasting ESPN Deportes' NFL Esta Noche telecast during the first nine weeks of the season.
2015 ESPN overhauled MNF graphics with a new bottom-screen scoreboard that could be hidden during plays.
May 11 2015 ABC began simulcasting ESPN's Wild Card playoff game, with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the Houston Texans.
April 22 2014 NFL announced the first NFL playoff game to be broadcast exclusively on cable television (ESPN), with the Carolina Panthers defeating the Arizona Cardinals.
2011 Introduced a dedicated graphics package with a red and black metallic design, larger scoreboard, and a redesigned MNF shield logo.

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