First Monday Night Football Game 1970

The new york jets played against the cleveland browns in the first ever monday night game the embodiment of the merger coupled with the star power of joe namath being placed in the spotlight. The final monday night football game of the season offered one of the least attractive contests in the six year history of the program. Advertisers were charged us65000 per minute by abc during the clash a cost that proved to be a bargain when the contest collected 33 of the viewing audience.
first monday night football game 1970

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First monday night football game 1970. Broadway joe in ohio. September 19 2018. The 111 san diego chargers hosted the 39 new york jets with the chargers pulling an upset 2416 victory. If flexing was around in 1970 when monday night football debuted on the abc network the eagles almost certainly would have lost their one primetime appearance and the nation would have missed out on seeing a highly entertaining game.

The nfl had experimented with a few monday night games in the 1960s. Joe namath and jets lose first ever monday night football game in 1970 fall to the cleveland browns 31 21. Monday night football first aired on abc on september 21 1970 with a game between the new york jets and the browns in cleveland. This was the first season that the rams did not appear in one of the final two games of the season.

It was a week 10 matchup of the eagles who were 1 7 1 and the new york giants who were 6 3. The new york jets meet the cleveland browns in the first ever monday night football game on september 21 1970. New york jets at cleveland browns. The first monday night football game ever 1970 nfl posted an episode of nfl throwback.

But this is about the regular series which began in 1970. In 1970 when everybody else was scared stiff about taking a chance on this new venture called monday night football cleveland browns management was confident enough in the marriage of the nfl and prime time tv to offer their team as one of the sacrificial lambs for that first game.