Live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games
This article is about broadcasts of National Football League games on Mondays. For an overview of NFL telecasts on ESPN, see NFL on ESPN. For Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli, see Manningcast. For overview of NFL telecasts on ABC, see NFL on ABC. For other uses, see Monday Night Football (disambiguation).
Monday Night Football
Also known as
ABC Monday Night Football(1970–2005, 2016–present)
ESPN Monday Night Football(2006–present)
Genre
NFL game telecasts
Created by
Roone Arledge
Directed by
Chet Forte (1970–1986) Larry Kamm (1987) Craig Janoff (1988–1999) Drew Esocoff (2000–2005) Chip Dean (2006–2018) Jimmy Platt (2019–2022) Derek Mobley (2023–present)
Presented by
Commentators: Joe Buck Troy Aikman Chris Fowler (select games) Louis Riddick (select games) Dan Orlovsky (select games) Peyton Manning and Eli Manning (ESPN2) Reporters: Lisa Salters (lead sideline) Laura Rutledge (sideline, select games) Michelle Beisner-Buck (feature) Rules Analyst: John Parry
Opening theme
"Score" by Bob's Band (1970–1975)
"All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night" by Hank Williams Jr. (1989–2010; 2017–2019)
"Heavy Action" by Johnny Pearson (1976–1988; 2011–2017, 2022–2023; used as secondary theme from 1989 to 2011, 2017-2021, and 2023–present)
"Rip It Up" by Little Richard feat. Butcher Brown (2019–2021)
"In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins feat. Chris Stapleton, Cindy Blackman Santana and Snoop Dogg (2023–present)
September 21, 1970 (1970-09-21) – February 5, 2006 (2006-02-05)
Network
ESPN
Release
September 11, 2006 (2006-09-11) – present (present)
Related
Monday Night Countdown NFL on ABC
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Monday Night Football (often abbreviated as MNF) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that primarily broadcast on Monday nights. It was originally broadcast on ABC from 1970 to 2005, before moving exclusively to sister network ESPN in 2006, which remains the main channel for the broadcast. In 2020, MNF returned to ABC in select simulcasts with ESPN, and in 2022, it began featuring select exclusive ABC telecasts. In addition, ESPN2 has aired alternate telecasts of selected games since 2020 as the Manningcast, while ESPN+ has streamed MNF simulcasts in the United States since 2021.
During its initial run on ABC, it became one of the longest continuously running American television series, and one of the highest-rated, particularly among male viewers. Since 1993, MNF has been preceded on ESPN by the pregame show Monday Night Countdown. Per an NFL broadcasting policy intended to allow those who do not subscribe to cable or satellite television to see games televised by a pay television network, games on ESPN are also made available on over-the-air television stations in each participating team's local market.
MNF is broadcast in Canada on TSN and RDS, in most of Australia on ESPN Australia, in Portugal on Eleven Sports, on TV 2 Sport in Denmark, on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom,[2] and in some other regions of the world outside the U.S. on ESPN International. A Spanish-language version airs on ESPN Deportes in the U.S. and on ESPN International in Latin America, while a Portuguese version airs on ESPN Brasil.[3]
^"ESPN creates rooftop 'bubble' for NFL coverage in under a month". Newscast Studio. September 14, 2020. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
^"The NFL returns to Channel 5". NFL.com. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
^Shapiro, Leonard; Maske, Mark (April 19, 2005). "'Monday Night Football' Changes the Channel". The Washington Post. p. A1.
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