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calendar   Tuesday - December 27, 2005

Turn Out The Lights

I don’t know about you but I have fond memories of Monday Night Football over the years. I haven’t watched it as much in recent years as I did during the 70’s and 80’s. I can hardly believe the weekly football event has been on the air for 36 years. Next year the show will move to ESPN but it won’t be the same for me. Then again, it hasn’t been the same for quite some time. I miss Howard Cosell and his ridiculous toupee ...

imageimage‘’Monday Night Football’’ Signs Off On ABC
December 27, 2005
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)

Al Michaels turned to Frank Gifford, patted his former broadcast partner on the shoulder and said simply: “I can’t thank you enough.” Football fans feel the same way about “Monday Night Football.” After 36 years on ABC, the television phenomenon concluded its network run with New England’s 31-21 win over the New York Jets, a lackluster game that didn’t come close to epitomizing the special place “Monday Night Football” has held in the American cultural landscape.

There were still plenty of great highlights, just not from players in helmets and pads. Instead, they featured characters in yellow blazers and outdated hairdos, cracking wise into ancient microphones and chomping cigars. The 555th broadcast opened with—who else?—the most recognizable voice in “Monday Night Football” history: Howard Cosell.

And it ended with his longtime foil, country boy Don Meredith, singing his trademark line “Turn out the lights, the party’s over ... .” By the time the song moseyed to a conclusion—ending a final montage more than three decades in the making—Hank Williams Jr. was carrying the tune, with a slight lyric change for the last line: “Mondays will never be the same again.”

Not for ABC, anyway. The series switches networks next season, when ESPN begins an eight-year deal in which it will pay $1.1 billion per year for Monday night rights. “They can take football away from ABC on Monday night,” announcer John Madden said after the game ended, “but they can’t take away the memories.”

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