ESPN scored its highest ratings ever for the second game of its "Monday Night Football" package. In the game where the Jacksonville Jaguars shut out the Pittsburgh Steelers 9-0, ESPN posted 13.3
million viewers--a 10.6 household rating. The ratings succeed the previous week game, which held the previous record of 12.6 million viewers and a 9.9 rating. ESPN ratings are nowhere near the
all-time "Monday Night Football" ratings on ABC. For example, during the 1989 season, ABC averaged 25.3 million viewers---its highest ever. In 1981, it grabbed its highest average household rating--a
21.7. --Wayne Friedman
