Turn out the lights

The party's over for 'Monday Night Football' on ABC after a 36-year run as the show that became a part of pop culture moves to ESPN in 2006

By Bob Hohler

Globe Staff / December 26, 2005

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A casket bearing the bombastic pundit who revolutionized television sports broadcasting and helped alter American pop culture with his provocative role on ABC's ''Monday Night Football" rests in a New York cemetery beneath a headstone etched with a passage from the poem, ''Ode to a Nightingale." (Full article: 2147 words)