20 Years Since Dennis Miller and the Best Monday Night Football Season Ever
7 min readSep 28, 2020
ESPN has been trying to recreate the magic of the 2000 Monday Night Football season for 20 years now. They’ll never succeed.
Monday Night Football was the premier sports series in the country entering the 21st century, and there wasn’t a close second. College football wasn’t in primetime every weekend. The NHL was barely on television. Baseball was still struggling after the 1994 strike. The NBA lost Jordan and endured a lockout season that tanked ratings.
