Instead of carrying its scheduled Jets-New England game, NBC took Denver-Kansas City from CBS. “Our deal is so much more than ‘Monday Night Football,’” said Burke Magnus, an executive vice president of ESPN. The league understood ESPN’s ability to pay a decade ago when ESPN succeeded ABC as the home of “Monday Night Football” and NBC took over on Sunday nights from ESPN. There will, of course, be no reduction in Monday night games. The Packers are usually a good national draw, but it was ESPN’s misfortune to carry a Packers game when they were 4-6, facing a 5-5 Eagles team.

Source: New York Times November 29, 2016 02:13 UTC