The New York Jets play host to the Chicago Bears tonight in ESPN’s Monday Night Football (8:30 p.m. ET).
Forty-four years ago yesterday, the Jets were the visitors in the very first regular-season MNF game in a matchup with the Cleveland Browns at Municipal Stadium. Keith Jackson, Don Meredith and Howard Cosell called the Sept. 21, 1970 telecast on ABC.
(L-R) Analyst Howard Cosell, commentator Keith Jackson and analyst Don Meredith at Cleveland Municipal Stadium for the historic first Monday Night Football telecast on ABC.
