Monday, December 26, 2005

Monday Night Football on ABC

Jan. 1972 photo, released by ABC, shows, from left, Don Meredith, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford,
If you were ready for some football, it was the place to be for 35 seasons on Monday nights. Tonight, the NFL bids farewell to ABC. The second longest-running series on network TV shifts to ESPN beginning next season. The series began in 1970, with Keith Jackson handling the play-by-play. ESPN is paying about $1.1 billion over eight seasons for the Monday night contract.
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On August 15, 1935, Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, in Alaska.


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