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• The addition featuring comic Dennis Miller as a color commentator in 2001 was met with controversy as many of Miller's jokes and comments went over the heads of viewers. ABC ultimately ended up setting up a Web page dedicated to explaining Miller's many obscure (and not-so-obscure) pop culture references.
  
  
• In 1998, play-by-play commentator 'Al Michaels' said, "No shit," in response to a question posed by his colleague, Dan Dierdorf. It turned out that Michaels thought that a scheduled interview was going on and that his microphone was turned off.
  
  
• The highest rated game in the program's history was a 1985 Bears/Dolphins game.
  
  
• The highest scoring game in Monday Night Football history was a Packers-Redskins game from 1983. Green Bay won the game 48-47 with both teams combining for 95 points.
  
  
• Brent Musburger was the halftime host during the mid'90s
  
  
• In 1983, during a Monday Night Football match up between the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys, Howard Cosell referred to Redskins wide receiver Alvin Garrett as a "little monkey". Following two months of intense public pressure, he resigned from the MNF broadcast team.
  
  
• John Lennon's murder was first announced to the world by Howard Cosell during a broadcast of this show. According to Frank Gifford, Lennon met Ronald Reagan when both were guests on "Monday Night Football" in the mid-1970s. After appearing on the show, he gave Gifford and Howard Cosell each a complete collection of Beatles albums, which he autographed.
  
  
• Peter Thomas currently narrates the "Monday Night Football" commercials.
  
  

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