All My Rowdy Friends Are Gone
Tonight I saw the last Monday Night Football game.
After 35+ years/36 season of Monday night football ABC lost this TV changing show to ESPN.
The 555th broadcast opened with the most best voice in Monday Night Football, Mr. Howard Cosell.
John Madden and Al Michaels showed clips and talked over this lackluster game. Some great stories and of course a few of thousand of the greatest football moments that happened on Mondays.
The first Monday Night Football game featured the Jets losing 21-31 to the Brown.
Today the Jets lost to the Patriots 21-31. Synergy people!!
The crew still has the Superbowl before they disappear forever.
If you know TV you know the impact Monday Night Football had on all the shows. Football at 9:00pm/ET forced every station to put up there lesser shows until 24 came around.
I saw some of the best games on Monday while flipping to the CBS sitcom in the last few years before TiVo came out.
Moving to ESPN is horrible not everyone has cable and I grew up on broadcast TV, it is not fair to put football out of reach to young fans, yes ESPN is basic cable but it still seems wrong.
I'm not a football fan, but I know what you mean about growing up on broadcast TV. Today's young people don't know what it is like to have only three channels and then the president decides to make a speech. Your night was shot -- you might as well go read a book :-).
ReplyDeleteBroadcast TV isn't what it used to be, though. In my area, you can't even pick up the local channels without subscribing to basic cable.
That is awful, no broadcast channels in your area, that is not right.
ReplyDeleteI still remember the UHF channels that played repeats or strange shows.