Ranking Every ‘Monday Night Football’ Announcer Over 46 Years
Some folks say they grew up at Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, for me it was football and growing up at Mile High Stadium watching the Denver Broncos. My earliest memories of the Denver Broncos go approach again, lengthy before John Elway, back to the American Football League, when the Broncos have been the laughingstock of the league.
Ten years after that, the identical situation performed out in Miami. The Marlins and Indians were enjoying Game Seven of the Fall Classic on Sunday, so the Dolphins sport against the Bears was postponed till Monday. The Marlins gained the title by rallying within the ninth inning to tie the sport before Edgar Renteria ripped a walk-off single in the eleventh. The next night time, the Dolphins led the winless Bears by 15 with six minutes left in the game, but Chicago roared back to even the rating before profitable 36-33 in … Read more
Sean McDonough, a longtime ESPN broadcaster, would be the new play-by-play voice this fall , with Jon Gruden staying on as the colour analyst. McDonough will make his debut for the Pro Football Hall of Fame sport in August.
Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, and Don Meredith made ABC’s Monday Night Football memorable, and the recollections of those early years of ABC’s Monday Night Football are still widely talked about. The legendary sports activities broadcasting trio of Cosell, Meredith, and Gifford remains bigger than life. A distinctive chemistry existed among them, often with a tension in the sales space that equaled that of the taking part in discipline combatants. Over the years enemies became associates, and friend became enemies. It was that volatile chemistry of early personalities from 1970-1983 that made ABC Monday Night Football legendary.