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NFL considering moving on from their Monday Night Football doubleheader to open the season

For the last 15 seasons, the NFL has concluded it’s opening weekend by playing a doubleheader on Monday Night Football. These game times were usually around a 7 PM and 10PM EST kickoff with the second game obviously being played in the western half the United States. According to Peter King in Football Morning in America, ESPN will no longer be airing a doubleheader on Monday night to open the season. Instead, ESPN comes out even better by picking up a Saturday doubleheader the final week of the season.

This per Peter King:

Looks like ESPN will lose the second game of the week-one Monday night doubleheader but gain a hugely valuable property this season: the week 18 Saturday doubleheader on Jan.