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ABC's Monday Night Football debuts in Cleveland

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 19, 2001

Sept. 21, 1970 Are you ready for some football? Some prime-time football? ABC Sports president Roone Arledge is. It's the debut of Monday Night Football, with the New York Jets and Broadway Joe Namath visiting the Cleveland Browns. Arledge has a vision of pro football being prime-time television entertainment -- more cameras, new angles, better graphics and information, and dramatic halftime highlights. He wants to show football is more than a game of Xs and Os. That's why he has the outspoke ...

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