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Article: MONDAY BLIGHT It may be a national phenomenon, but in New England, Monday Night Football has had a troubled past
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 23, 1995
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FOXBOROUGH -- It is the Patriots' unfortunate history of national
night football that their lively fans always show up for the country
to see, but the players and coaches often do not. The rest of the
country snickers at this strange occurrence and asks: "If the fans
show up, is it too much to ask the players and coaches to come along,
too?"
Tonight it is Monday Night Football. It has been so long.
Fourteen years in the abyss, and all along we were led to believe
that it was the fans who were not ready for prime time. Fans run
over by drunken drivers in the pitch black of Route 1, fans ripping
guns from the holsters of Foxborough police and waving them in the
air, those fans behaving like ...