Who Plays NFL Football on Monday Night?
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The NFL
What is the NFL?
The NFL is the National Football League, the highest level of professional American football. It was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, and changed its name to the National Football League in 1922. The NFL is made up of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. Each conference has 16 teams, and each team plays a 16-game schedule. The NFL playoffs are held after the regular season ends, with 12 teams qualifying for the playoffs: four from each conference. The playoffs culminate in the Super Bowl, which is held every year in February and pits the champions of each conference against each other.
How many teams are in the NFL?
The National Football League (NFL) is made up of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).
What is the NFL’s schedule?
The NFL regular season typically runs from the last week of September through the end of December. Each team plays 16 games during the regular season, with a bye week (an opportunity to rest and recover, or to prepare for the next opponent) scheduled between weeks four and 12. The regular season is followed by the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, which is usually held in early February.
Monday Night Football
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America, and the highest professional level of American football in the world. The NFL’s 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, six teams from each conference (four division winners and two wild card teams) advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, which is usually held in the first Sunday in February and is played between the champions of the NFC and AFC.
What is Monday Night Football?
Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States. From 1970 to 2005, it aired on sister network ABC. Monday Night Football is also broadcast in Canada on TSN and RDS, and in most of Europe on ESPN America. On September 7, 2013, the NFL announced that British Eurosport would show Monday Night Football games live in the United Kingdom for the 2013 season. The broadcasting agreement ended after the 2015 season as the NFL decided to move exclusively to Sky Sports for its UK game broadcasts
As of 2018, Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play commentator for all games broadcast on ABC/ESPN, while Jason Witten serves as the color commentator for ESPN’s primary broadcast team. Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland were originally slated to be the Monday Night Football commentators for ESPN’s 2018 season opener between the Minnesota Vikings and San Francisco 49ers on September 10; however, due to Tessitore suffering from double vision caused by a detached retina, McFarland was moved up to serve as Tessitore’s replacement alongside Witten, with Tessitore instead calling that evening’s college football game between Virginia Tech and Florida State for ABC. Lisa Salters is the sideline reporter for all games. Jon Gruden is currently serving as lead analyst, with Witten as color commentator during his first season back since leaving coaching following the 2008 campaign; they are joined by sideline reporter Lisa Salters.
Who plays on Monday Night Football?
Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States. From 1970 to 2005, it aired on sister broadcast network ABC. Monday Night Football is also broadcast in Canada on TSN and RDS, and in most of Europe onespnamerica.
The first Monday Night Football game was played on September 21, 1970, between the New York Jets and the Cleveland Browns. Since then, there have been numerous memorable games and moments during its fifty-year history.
The current schedule consists of sixteen regular season games following a predetermined schedule released before the start of the season. Each team plays one game per week during seventeen weeks of the NFL’s regular season. Typically, there are no Monday Night Football games during the first week of the regular season as most teams have their bye week then. However, there has been at least one game during every week of the regular season since 1968.
What is the Monday Night Football schedule?
The Monday Night Football schedule is generally released in April, prior to the start of the NFL season. The schedule typically features 16 games, spread out over 17 weeks. The first game of the season is usually played on the Thursday night after Labor Day, and the final game is usually played on the Monday night before Christmas. There are typically four games played on Monday nights in September, three in October, three in November, and six in December.
