ABC to add Monday Night Football games to its schedule

According to Jordan Valinsky of CNN on Monday, Monday Night Football will be seen on the American Broadcast Company throughout the remainder of the 2023 National Football League regular season. The weekly games which are normally seen on ESPN, are being added to ABC because of a writer’s strike in the United States. The strike is impacting network programming as comedies and dramas are not being seen as scheduled. However, one must realize the National Football League regular season games are a zillion times more fascinating than any regularly scheduled programming that all four of the major cable networks in the United States generally provide.

ABC originally broadcasted Monday Night Football from 1970 to 2005. Some of the legendary broadcasters included Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, Don Meredith, Al Michaels, and Dan Dierdorf. In recent years, ESPN had exclusive rights to Monday Night Football from 2006 to 2015. Then in 2016, various games returned to ABC each season. It should be noted that Disney owns ABC, which owns ESPN.

The Monday Night games have been very intriguing so far. On September 11, the New York Jets beat the Buffalo Bills 20-17 in overtime. However, the game will be mostly remembered at the beginning when Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles injury. Then this past Monday, there were two Monday Night Football games. The New Orleans Saints beat the Carolina Panthers 20-17 on ABC and the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cleveland Browns 26-22 on ESPN. It was simply an unbelievable game by Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt of Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Like in Week 2, there will be two Monday Night Football games in Week 3. Philadelphia is in Tampa Bay and the Los Angeles Rams are in Cincinnati.

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