How to watch Monday Night Football: Bengals vs Cowboys everything you need to know

Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Burrow
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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. As we get ready for the 2024 NFL season, Monday Night Football looks to have another great slate of games for fans to enjoy.

How to watch Monday Night Football

What to Watch has you covered with how to watch this and 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 here is everything that you need to know how to Monday Night Football this season.

How to watch Monday Night Football in the US

Monday Night Football airs on multiple channels throughout the season, including ESPN and ABC. For select weeks it'll also be available to live stream on ESPN Plus.

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). 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.

This week 14 game is going to have a special viewing option, as Disney Plus is not only going to host an alternative broadcast, but one where the game action is animated to look like the world of The Simpsons. Yu must have a Disney Plus subscription to watch this special version of the game.

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.

When Monday Night Football games are on ABC, meanwhile, the networks is 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 when available, you must be a subscriber to the sports-centric streaming platform.

How to watch Monday Night Football in the UK

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.

NFL Game Pass is also 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.

How to watch Monday Night Football from anywhere

If you're going to be away from your normal TV setup but still want to watch Sunday Night Football, you might run into some problems. Thankfully, you can solve this exact issue with a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

A VPN lets you change your IP address to that of the area of what you want to watch, meaning you can tune in to your favorite events or other content even if you're not there. Our favorite is NordVPN, which is the No. 1-rated VPN in the world right now according to our sister site, TechRadar.

How to use a VPN to watch any stream:

  • Download the app at NordVPN
  • Choose the location of the streaming service you want to watch (UK, US, etc)
  • Navigate to the streaming service and start watching!
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Monday Night Football week 14: Bengals vs Cowboys

What many thought could have been a Super Bowl preview early in the season, is still something of a de facto elimination game, but not in the way that many were expecting. Both the Bengals and Cowboys have underperformed this season and are clinging to slim playoff hopes, but a lose in this game could all but end those dreams of a late season rally.

Despite incredible play from Joe Burrow this season, the Bengals enter week 14 4-8. The problem for the Bengals has been a defense that has not been able to do much of anything well; they allowing nearly 370 yards per game and more than 28 points per game. Can the Bengals defense finally give Burrow some support?

For Dallas, while slim, they may have the better chances at the playoffs, as they have won two games in a row, have just two-more losses of division rival Washington, who currently holds the final playoff spot in the NFC (and currently the edge in the head-to-head). But a loss will make the road that much more difficult. Can they continue to ride Cooper Rush and a defense that's been coming up with some big plays a little bit longer, or will issues that got them into to this sub-500 record resurface?

Monday Night Football schedule

Check out the complete schedule for Monday Night Football during the 2024 NFL season. We've ID'd games that are on channels other than just ESPN.

  • Week 1: New York Jets 19, San Francisco 49ers 32
  • Week 2: Atlanta Falcons 22, Philadelphia Eagles 21
  • Week 3: Jacksonville Jaguars 10, Buffalo Bills 47
  • Week 3: Washington Commanders 38, Cincinnati Bengals 33
  • Week 4: Tennessee Titans 31, Miami Dolphins 12
  • Week 4: Seattle Seahawks 29, Detroit Lions 42
  • Week 5: New Orleans Saints 13, Kansas City Chiefs 26
  • Week 6: Buffalo Bills 23, New York Jets 20
  • Week 7: Baltimore Ravens 41, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31
  • Week 7: Los Angeles Chargers 15, Arizona Cardinals 17
  • Week 8: New York Giants 18, Pittsburgh Steelers 26
  • Week 9: Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24, Kansas City Chiefs 30
  • Week 10: Miami Dolphins 23, Los Angeles Rams 15
  • Week 11: Houston Texans 34, Dallas Cowboys 10
  • Week 12: Baltimore Ravens 30, Los Angeles Chargers 23
  • Week 13: Cleveland Browns 32, Denver Broncos 41
  • Week 14: Cincinnati Bengals vs Dallas Cowboys, ESPN/ABC
  • Week 15: Chicago Bears vs Minnesota Vikings, 8 pm ET/5 pm PT, ABC
  • Week 15: Atlanta Falcons vs Las Vegas Raiders, 8:30 pm ET/5:30 pm PT, ESPN
  • Week 16: New Orleans Saints vs Green Bay Packers
  • Week 17: Detroit Lions vs San Francisco 49ers, ESPN/ABC
  • Week 18: TBD

The schedule for which of these games will get an Manningcast alternate broadcast has not been announced as of yet.

Monday Night Football FAQs

What time is Monday Night Fooball?

Unless otherwise specified in the schedule above, Monday Night Football game broadcasts begin at 8:15 pm ET/5:15 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 commentators

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 team of hosts and analysts consist of Scott Van Pelt, Ryan Clark, Jason Kelce, Marcus Spears, Adam Schefter, Michelle Beisner-Buck.

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Michael Balderston

Michael Balderston is a DC-based entertainment and assistant managing editor for What to Watch, who has previously written about the TV and movies with TV Technology, Awards Circuit and regional publications. Spending most of his time watching new movies at the theater or classics on TCM, some of Michael's favorite movies include Casablanca, Moulin Rouge!, Silence of the Lambs, Children of Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Star Wars. On the TV side he enjoys Only Murders in the Building, Yellowstone, The Boys, Game of Thrones and is always up for a Seinfeld rerun. Follow on Letterboxd.

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