Monday Night Football isn't what it used to be. It used to be the only prime time game of the week. It has to share prime time games now. NBC seems to get the best games on Sunday night. Every team gets a turn on Thursday so NFL Network gets a mix. ESPN seems to get what's left on Monday Night. The best games used to be on Monday Night. Now, they get Miami-Tampa Bay. There might have been a time when Miami-Tampa Bay had the looks of an intriguing game. It isn't now. The Dolphins are in the news for all of the wrong reasons. The Buccaneers have had their own version of dysfunction this season. There haven't been a lot of wins from the Florida teams. Tampa Bay and Jacksonville got their first wins of the season this week. Congratulations. The Dolphins and Buccaneers put up a mildly entertaining game. A 22-19 Buccaneers win. Any game is a peach when compared to the disaster that we saw on Monday Night three weeks ago. The Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants played one of the worst professional football games that I've ever seen. It didn't even look like an NFL game. Neither team seemed to want to win that game but someone had to win it. The New York Giants came out on top but they couldn't have been proud. When the schedule popped out last spring the league probably thought that they had a dandy with the Vikings and Giants. Didn't happen. ESPN couldn't have been happy.
If NBC isn't happy with their scheduled game they have the option of grabbing a better one starting next Sunday. ESPN doesn't get that option for their Monday nights.
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