Dolphins’ big men cross offensive line

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

Dolphins’ big men cross offensive line

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.

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