Monday Night Football is on tonight, and I don't know, or care, who is playing. And really, I never do.  ESPN has successfully destroyed an American favorite over the years, and now it may be just about as dull as it can be. 

MNF used to be an event.  Now, look, I'm not saying go back to the "Old Days."  Frank, Howard and Dandy Don are all dead anyway.  But the entire broadcast had the right idea. Make it an event, more than football, in the booth and out.  Now, it's just another game. It might was well be a college game with Texas Tech and Boise State, and not the NFL.  It's now and X's and O's broadcast with announcers no one wants to hear, and who have nothing new, or really nothing creative to say at all. There is no star power, no pizzaz, no..well anything.  It's just a game that starts too late, and runs too long.

It was a huge mistake to take it off ABC and put it on ESPN, (same company).  That gave NBC a clear path to be #1.  NBC Sunday Night Football is better positioned on its night, and on the main network.  It's also the number one show on TV.  The ratings for cable are decent, but the MNF broadcast is not exciting. Monday night Football is an after thought with many now. If not just with those watching it, and seemingly with those producing it. 

What was once a real institution, is now as dull as paint on an old barn.  MNF needs a hero, or two, or three....that I fear are never coming.