A look inside Monday Night Football. The most striking thing about ESPN's work when it comes to town for Monday Night Football -- work that I'm observing in Minneapolis today -- is the physical size of the operation.
ESPN has 31 cameras and 20,000 feet of cable running through the Metrodome, and its Monday Night Football production trucks travel 25,000 miles a year.
But the number that stuck out to me is this: There are 325 people in Minneapolis today for ESPN's telecast. I figure the Bears probably brought 50 players and 100 or so other team employees, meaning ESPN likely has more than twice as many people in town for Monday Night Football as the Bears do.
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12-17-2007 @ 4:36PM
Peter said...
Unless you count Bears fans.
On second thought, with Kyle Orton in at QB, ESPN probably still outnumbers Bears staff AND fans put together.
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