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Article: 'Monday Night Football' Signs Off on ABC
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- December 27, 2005
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CONNOR ENNIS, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
12-27-2005
Dateline: EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
FILE ** This Jan. 1972 photo, released by ABC, shows, from left, Don Meredith, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford, the broadcasting team for Monday Night Football. Television sports reaches the end of one era and the beginning of another Monday night when ABC signs off on its prime-time weeknight coverage of the NFL for the final time and hands off to sister network ESPN. (AP Photo/ABC)
Are you ready for a finale? After 36 years as a television phenomenon, "Monday Night Football" prepared to end its run on ABC with Monday night's game between the New England Patriots and the New York Jets.
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