Fans Look Forward To Return Of NFL Monday Night Football

Following the 2010 season, fans of American football were left wondering if there would even be a 2011 season to look forward to. The Collective Bargaining Agreement, or CBA, had expired. This was the structure in place between NFL owners and the players union. The 2011 NFL Monday Night Football schedule was released in the spring but fans were left to wonder if the games would be played.

The owners and players bickered over how to divide up the revenues which approached a staggering 9 billion dollars, an indication of the popularity of the sport. Owners pushed for a restructuring of the pay scale for players, particularly first year players while the union is happy with the way things have been for the past several years.

With the 2011 draft at the end of April the only highlight of the off season so far, news began to break in mid-June that owners and player reps were meeting in earnest and possibly nearing a new agreement that would end the player lockout. With a new labor agreement in place by the first of July, teams could finally make trades and sign players to fill their rosters in time for training came towards the end of the month. Pre season games could go on as scheduled and the regular season could begin as planned in September.

And with the new season comes the much anticipated return of Monday Night Football, a fall staple looked forward to by many fans. The marquis match ups are watched by millions of viewers and MNF is set to return for its forty first season.

Out were long time announcers Al Michaels and Jon Madden who left to go to Sunday Night Football on NBC. Current broadcasters for ESPN on Monday Night Football are Mike Tirico on play-by-play with commentators Jon Gruden, a former head coach of the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski.

In all there have been 643 games played on Monday Night Football. Another common matching is Dallas versus Washington, who have played fourteen times on MNF. Those games draw large audiences with both teams large fan bases and interest from fans of other teams throughout the country.

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Written by Al Zamora on January 18th, 2012 with comments disabled.
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