Dolphins’ big men cross offensive line

Monday Night Football has been a cornerstone of American television since its inception on ABC in the 1970s.

It has since moved to ABC’s corporate brothers at ESPN (siblings at the Disney corporation) and retains a place in the nation’s psyche as must-see TV, although not quite the street-emptying phenomenon it was in the early days.

But as much as you could feel sympathy for a billion-dollar-generating behemoth like ESPN, the huge fee they paid for the sole rights to those 17 games a season has been looking like a comically bad deal of late.