MNF used to have a halftime show that featured SPORTS!

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Remember? They would show highlights of the week’s games. They would analyze playoff scenarios and starter’s stats. And they would banter a bit.

BUT IT WAS ALL ABOUT FOOTBALL!

Now they have these god damned MTV style punk shows. Or some foul mouthed dipshit mother fucking asshole miked up so we can hear how he fails to have anything to say that makes a fucking difference! (Yeah, I know, the irony…)

And they spend maybe (if we’re lucky) about 1:15 seconds during halftime to talk about this week’s football, half of it which is merely a recap of what we’ve just watched in the first two quarters.

I miss Howard. I even miss Dennis. But I miss football talk the most. :::sigh:::

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Howard Cosell’s highlights were sometimes better than the game.

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It ain’t over til the fat lady sings.

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Some of us are old enough to recall when halftime meant we had to sit through marching bands form the team’s logo or give a salute to Autumn. (shudder!)

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I remember the MNF highlights as (sometimes) the best part of the game!

Back in the bad old days before DirecTV and the Football package, there was no way that I could watch my favorite team play. These were also the days before ESPN, so there was no NFL Primetime on Sunday night either. The MNF highlights effectively served as the weekly recap of the NFL.

Did they use NFL Films footage in those highlights? My memory may be getting a little too misty, but I remember the highlights as being something more than the stock footage.

Tonight - Sacked! WTF? A bunch of kids hassling one of the Barber twins? OK…I think I’ll just get on the wonderful IntarWeb and read some more about Half-Life 2. At least that’s more interesting than the MNF halftime show.

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Also, ESPN used to have analysis that featured sports.

Don’t forget the atrocious “Jacked Up” segment of ESPN Countdown just before MNF. The top five “hits of the week” all followed with the four commentators hooting “You just got JACKED UP!” on each.

That wouldn’t be so bad by itself, except each week, some of the hits are cheap shots, and their top hit this week was a defenseless Torry Holt taking a helmet-to-helmet hit, going down like a ragdoll, and being knocked out of the game.

“Torry Holt, you just got JACKED UP! Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh by the way he was okay after he got to the emergency room”

Yeah, ha ha ha, you apes. Analyze the football, give us your picks (except for the execrable "lead pipe lock of the week’ - my god, they actually call it that) and get off the show.