#MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL HOSTS PRO#
Pro football had dabbled in games outside its Sunday comfort zone a little the AFL would play games on Fridays and Saturdays. Charles Dolan would not found the operation that would become HBO for four more months. It isn’t just that it’s hard to conjure a similarly impactful moment 50 years later it’s actually all but impossible to remember a time when the idea of a prime-time football game could cause such a stir. ABC broadcasted the first ever “Monday Night Football” game 50 years ago today. And it sure felt like forever, even in the moment. This night, however, as the Jets and the Browns prepared to play a football game, there was an immediate, and profound, rebuttal.
#MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL HOSTS PROFESSIONAL#
“From Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio … two powers in professional football meet for the very first time as members of the American Football Conference of the National Football League …”Įarlier in 1970, the poet Gil Scott-Heron had recorded a song containing the instantly iconic line: “The revolution will not be televised.” And, at last, this from a relatively obscure sportscaster named Keith Jackson: Ba-bah, bah! Bah! Bah!” Then some serious 1970s-circa pixilated football players dancing across the screen. An unknown voice barking: “Fifteen seconds to air … standing by all cameras! Standby video tape!”Īnother voice: “Video tape is rolling in less than 5 … and 3, 2, 1 … taping!”Īnd then, a melody that would grind itself into ears for years to come, something along the lines of: “Bah. Or, at 9:01 p.m., you might’ve opted for this on Channel 7, WABC-TV: a dark screen, suddenly illuminated by two banks of stadium lights. Channel 13, PBS affiliate WNET, had “NET Journal” and the story of a former concentration camp prisoner visiting Israel, searching for fellow survivors. 21, 1970, you could tune into “Boom!” a Liz Taylor-Richard Burton drama on Channel 4, the NBC affiliate, or “Mayberry RFD” on CBS Channel 2.ĭavid Frost and Edgar Wallace had talk-shows on Channels 5 (WNEW) and 11 (WPIX), two local VHF channels, and there was a movie, “Killers of Kilamanjaro,” starring Anthony Newley, on Channel 9 (WOR). So as 9 o’clock rolled around that Monday night, Sept. If you lived in and around New York City, you were actually blessed with what felt like a buffet table of seven television choices. The options were limited that night, of course. Knicks must reverse Madison Square Garden trend to be taken seriously Struggling Astros star Jose Altuve can expect rude reception in Bronx What would George do? Imagining how Yankees icon would embrace ALCS hole Identifying most popular jersey numbers on New York's sports teams Once-promising New York baseball season about to end in a whimper
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