Monday Night Football... what to do with it
 

Tonight's barn-burner between the 1-5 Giants and 2-4 Falcons brings up the annual question... what to do with the shitshow that MNF has become? SNF has surpassed it due to the ability to flex teams from the morning/afternoon slot into the evening slot.

I think there are three ideas:

1) Get rid of MNF altogether. But the NFL would never do this due to the loss of revenue. That leaves two viable options:

2) Add a second MNF game, and air them both. They do it for the first Monday anyway (although that is two games at different times, whereas I suggest just having two games at the same time). This doubles your chances of not having a crap matchup like tonight's. Air the better matchup on ESPN and air the crappier one only on the home teams' local over-the-air stations (like they do with Thursday Night Football games). And if your good matchup turns to a blowout and suddenly the second-tier game is close, switch over (again, for everyone except the home teams of the first matchup). They do it on Sundays all the time.

3) Allow the NFL to flex teams off Sunday altogether. Is it really that big of a deal? They already have no problems flexing a 1pm game to an 8:30pm game. I'm sure true fans would understand if their ticketed game got flexed to Monday night... hell, most true fans would probably love it, and the few who don't should have no problem pawning off their tickets (since if you're flexed it means your team is probably doing well).

Like the NFL is going to eliminate the Monday night game. Sheesh.

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MNF is unwatchable and has been for years. ESPN ruined it, which is fairly bizzare since they did a good job with SNF for years. Fix would likely be to take it away from ESPN.

Flex it.

Add second game.

Flex it.. at least the last 6-8 MNF games.

Terrible idea^

Isn't MNF still the highest rated program every Monday? You think that the NFL really GAF about the quality of the matchup? If it's an obvious flex layup like this past Sunday night, fine, but for the most part the NFL knows most everyone is gonna watch anyway.

MNF gets better ratings than MLB playoffs and Lebeon James, yet people think it’s failing??

The NFL is absolutely rolling

It's fine, quit whining.

And east coast then a west coast MNF game would be awesome. Hopefully one of the two games would be worth watching.

On principle I agree. However to have it make sense and to avoid having overlap(the NFL, and about any other business in the world is not going to compete against itself when it already has the whole market owned)you'd have to rotate weekly between the CA teams, Seattle, and the Cardinals. Maybe Denver.

1. Get rid of Thursday night.
2. Flex MNF.
3. Bring back Sergio Dipp.

Pretty Much no may you can Flex MNF is there? not fair on people who make plans to travel.

End of the day isn't Monday Football primarily for the gamblers?

Leave it. You can’t help that the Falcons are brutally beaten by injuries and Eli’s decline is in full acceleration. Shit happens.

Some weeks you get this, but one week you get Rams/KC.