live nfl trivia every wednesday night on twitch at NUMBER_TOKEN pm eastern come show off your football knowledge for a chance to win cash prizes check the link in the description to find out more and now on with our feature presentation when you watch a football game especially a nationally televised one like monday night football you expect to watch the entire thing no matter what happens no matter how bad it gets so no matter what delays happen you're going to be able to see that game from start to finish if you want to when it comes to a national game like a primetime one it's difficult to imagine the idea that a network would cut away from the ending of the game to show some other programming fans would be outraged the league would be outraged i think it's safe to say if the network would have a lot of explaining to do however what you might not realize is that in NUMBER_TOKEN this actually happened on september NUMBER_TOKENnd NUMBER_TOKEN the jacksonville jaguars played the pittsburgh steelers on monday night football and unless you were in the stadium no one saw the true ending of the game there is no footage of how the game ended because abc cut away from the game before it actually finished leaving many people incredibly confused when they woke up the next morning and realized that the final score was not the one that they thought it was and this is the story behind one of the strangest broadcast controversies in the history of monday night football before i talk about the controversy in question we need some context to understand the importance of this game how it was going and perhaps most importantly how everyone thought the game actually ended it's week NUMBER_TOKEN of the NUMBER_TOKEN season and we're down in jacksonville for this absolutely critical monday night football game between two division rivals oddly enough this is not the first time i've talked about the NUMBER_TOKEN jaguars and the NUMBER_TOKEN steelers as they were involved in a bizarre tiebreaker controversy later in the season where the afc central was decided by five tiebreakers you'll learn more about that by clicking the card in the upper right corner for the jaguars they enter this one at NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN while the steelers were NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN if the jags won they'd maintained first place in the afc central also for the jaguars this was their first ever appearance on monday night football so the stakes were pretty high as this was one of the first times ever that the whole country was watching the jaguars play and let's just say there's a reason that many jags fans who were there at the time still remember this scheme as one of the greatest regular season games in the history of the franchise heck roughly a quarter century later it might even be number one the jaguars scored two touchdowns in the first half with natrone means punching in from a yard out to give the jags an early seven nothing lead and jimmy smith scoring on an NUMBER_TOKEN yard touchdown early in the second quarter at halftime jacksonville led it NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN although the steelers were not going away quietly into the night cordell stewart threw two touchdowns on the first two drives of the second half as after hitting yancey thinkpen from four yards out and mark bruner from one yard out the steelers had their first lead of the game leading it NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN. with
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