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Aug 30, 2021 · The Story of the First-Ever Monday Night Football Game. August 30, 2021 by Sports History Network. The 1970s ushered in a new birth of competition in pro football. As with many new things, a new idea sparked the entire pro football landscape at the very beginning of the decade. A new television contract was obtained by all three major ...
The New York Jets meet the Cleveland Browns in the first-ever Monday Night Football game on September 21, 1970. ... check out every time the top two picks from the draft played against each other ...
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Monday Night Football first aired on ABC on September 21, 1970, with a game between the New York Jets and the Browns in Cleveland. Advertisers were charged US$65,000 per minute by ABC during the clash, a cost that proved to be a bargain when the contest collected 33% of the viewing audience.
The New York Jets meet the Cleveland Browns in the first-ever Monday Night Football game on September 21, 1970.#ClevelandBrowns #Browns #NFL Subscribe to the...
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Sep 21, 2012 · On this day 42 years ago — September 21, 1970 — sports television’s signature series was born. The Cleveland Browns defeated star quarterback Joe Namath and the New York Jets 31-21 in front of more than 80,000 rabid fans and a curious national audience as ABC’s Monday Night Football made its prime time debut. The photo gallery above ...
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Sep 21, 2020 · ABC broadcasted the first ever “Monday Night Football” game 50 years ago today. The Browns beat the Jets, 31-21. ... the AFL would play games on Fridays and Saturdays. Mostly, though, if you ...
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Ironically, the December 1983 game was the second and final Monday night game played at Tampa Stadium though ABC would air Super Bowl XXV played at the stadium. The December 7, 1998 game versus Green Bay was the first Monday night played at Raymond James Stadium and came just about 5 days shy of 15 years after the previous game hosted in Tampa.
