ESPN is collaborating with acclaimed filmmaker/director Peter Berg of Pony Show Entertainment to create a dramatic new show open for the MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL franchise. The one-minute, 30-second open chronicles the 44-year history of sports television’s signature series by combining indelible football moments from past MNF games with images of touchstone cultural events of the past four-and-a-half decades.The timeline-themed open will debut (at 6:55 p.m. ET) before ESPN’s MNF regular-season opener – Philadelphia Eagles vs. Washington Redskins – at 7 p.m. on September 9. The remainder of the season, it will air on Monday nights (at 8:25 p.m.) before ESPN’s nationally televised prime time NFL game kicks off at 8:30 p.m.