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Article: The Changing Face of 'Monday Night'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 27, 2005
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Twenty years later, the "Monday Night Football" game on Nov. 18,
1985, still ranks as one of the most gruesomely memorable evenings in
the 36-year history of the longest-running and most successful
football series in television history.
That was the night Joe Theismann's playing career ended, and for
all intents and purposes his broadcasting career began. It was the
second quarter between the Washington Redskins and the New York
Giants when Washington running back John Riggins took a handoff from
Theismann, charged a few steps toward the line, then wheeled and
pitched the ball back to his quarterback for a classic flea-flicker.
Three Giants linebackers saw the trick play coming and headed ...