How to watch Monday Night Football: Seahawks vs Giants
Before Thursday night or even Sunday night was saved for NFL football each fall, Monday Night Football was bringing fans primetime football for more than 50 years. With the NFL 2023 season officially underway, we've got everything you need to know about how to watch Monday Night Football each week.
What to Watch has you covered with how to watch all of the primetime NFL offerings, including Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Football, as well as the Sunday NFL on Fox and NFL on CBS games.
But, this post is for Monday Night Football, so let's get into it.
How to watch Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football is going to air on multiple channels throughout the season, including ESPN and ABC. For select weeks it'll also be available to live stream on ESPN Plus. Here's what you need to know about each.
ESPN is a cable channel, requiring viewers to be subscribers to a traditional pay-TV or live TV streaming service (Fubo, Hulu with live TV, Sling TV and YouTube TV), though it may not be available on all packages. With a subscription to one of these services, in addition to being able to watch ESPN on your TV or connected device, viewers can watch Monday Night Football through the ESPN app or ESPN.com.
ABC, meanwhile, is also available through pay-TV and live TV streaming services, but as one of the four major networks also has local stations in each US TV market that can be received via a TV antenna.
To stream the Monday Night Football games on ESPN Plus, you must be a subscriber to the sports-centric streaming platform.
NFL Plus is also an option to stream Monday Night Football live. You must be a subscriber and the live stream is only available through a mobile device.
Sky Sports is the home for NFL football in the UK, offering live game broadcasts to Sky TV subscribers. The games also are available free-to-air on My5.
If the standard 1 am UK start time is too late (or early) for you, NFL Game Pass is an option. The international version of this subscription service offers live broadcasts of games as well as the opportunity to watch the full broadcast on-demand or a condensed version of the broadcast that only features the plays.
ESPN2 is also going to feature multiple special Manningcast broadcasts of Monday Night Football throughout the season. ESPN2 is available on just about all of the same cable and live TV streaming services as ESPN.
What time is Monday Night Football?
There are a doubleheader of Monday Night Football games this week. The first starts at 7:15 pm ET/4:15 pm PT, while the other starts MNF's normal time, 8:15 pm ET/5:15 pm PT.
ESPN's pregame show, Monday Night Countdown, begins at 6 pm ET/3 pm PT.
What channel is Monday Night Football on?
Monday Night Football primarily airs on ESPN, though ABC, ESPN2 and ESPN Plus are also going to carry games, live streams or alternate broadcasts (ie the Manningcast) of the games occasionally throughout the season.
Monday Night Football: Seahawks vs Giants
Monday Night Football heads to the Big Apple as the Seattle Seahawks fly to New York City to take on the New York Giants.
Seattle has bounced back from their week 1 loss, winning their last two games and scoring 37 points in each outing. Quarterback Geno Smith has continued his strong play from last season as their offense ranks in the top half of the league, with receiver DK Metcalf and running back Kenneth Walker III off to solid starts as well. The Seattle defense, however, has not been as strong. They rank 31st in yards allowed per game thus far and 27th in points allowed per game. Perhaps Monday Night Football can see them play their best game, as they go up against, statistically, one of the worst offenses in the NFL so far.
Through three games the Giants have average just over 250 yards of offense and only 14.3 points per game. Quarterback Daniel Jones has thrown twice as many interceptions (four) as touchdowns (two) and the running game hasn't been much better. Things could be even harder on the Giants' offense because of injuries, as starting offensive tackle Andrew Thomas is ruled out for the game, while star running back Saquon Barkley is doubtful. The Giants defense hasn't been much better, surrendering an average of 32 points per game, though the unit does appear to be healthy for the game. At 1-2, and in a division with the Eagles and Cowboys, the Giants really need to turn it on for Monday Night Football to keep pace.
2023 Monday Night Football schedule
Check out the complete schedule for Monday Night Football during the 2023 NFL season. There is one thing to note, flex scheduling is being applied to Monday Night Football for the first time this year, so any games currently between week 12 and week 17 could be swapped out. A couple quirks: the week 17 MNF game is going to take place on Saturday, December 30, and a week 18 doubleheader will be announced later in the season.
Without further ado, here is the 2023 Monday Night Football schedule:
Week 1: Buffalo Bills 16, New York Jets 22
Week 2: New Orleans Saints vs Carolina Panthers & Cleveland Browns vs Pittsburgh Steelers (ABC)
Week 3: Philadelphia Eagles 25, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 11 & Los Angeles Rams 16, Cincinnati Bengals 19
Week 4: Seattle Seahawks vs New York Giants
Week 5: Green Bay Packers vs Las Vegas Raiders
Week 6: Dallas Cowboys vs Los Angeles Chargers
Week 7: San Francisco 49ers vs Minnesota Vikings
Week 8: Las Vegas Raiders vs Detroit Lions
Week 9: Los Angeles Chargers vs New York Jets
Week 10: Denver Broncos vs Buffalo Bills
Week 11: Philadelphia Eagles vs Kansas City Chiefs
Week 12: Chicago Bears vs Minnesota Vikings
Week 13: Cincinnati Bengals vs Jacksonville Jaguars
Week 14: Tennessee Titans vs Miami Dolphins & Green Bay Packers vs New York Giants (ABC)
Week 15: Kansas City Chiefs vs New England Patriots
Week 16: Baltimore Ravens vs San Francisco 49ers
Week 17: Detroit Lions vs Dallas Cowboys
Week 18: TBD
Monday Night Football commentators
There's a completely new team to call Monday Night Football games this year, as Joe Buck and Troy Aikman call the games from the Monday Night Football booth, while Lisa Salters is on board as the sideline reporter.
Before the Monday Night Football game kicks off, ESPN airs a pregame show, Monday Night Countdown. The last couple of years Monday Night Countdown has been hosted by Suzy Kolber and featured Randy Moss, Steve Young, Booger McFarland, Adam Schefter, Chris Mortensen, Lisa Salters and more.
Sky Sports is the home for NFL football in the UK, offering live game broadcasts to Sky TV subscribers.
If the standard 1 am UK start time is too late (or early) for you, NFL Game Pass is an option. The international version of this subscription service offers live broadcasts of games as well as the opportunity to watch the full broadcast on-demand or a condensed version of the broadcast that only features the plays.
