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ESPN Finally Solved Its Opening-Night Doubleheader Broadcast Issue: TRAINA THOUGHTS

1. Ever since 2006, when the NFL decided to give us two Monday Night Football games on the opening week of the season, ESPN has had a problem finding a serviceable broadcast crew for the second game.

The regular Monday Night Football booth would always call one game, and then it was mainly gimmicks for game No. 2.

Chris Berman called several of those games. Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic did the honor a couple of times. Rex Ryan even had one awful turn in the booth.

Monday night, though, the network finally got things right by using its lead college football crew of Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit on the Steelers-Giants game.