ESPN Scores Record Viewership With MNF's Eagles, Cowboys Match-Up

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ESPN rounded up the largest audience in cable history with the Sept. 15 installment of Monday Night Football, as a record 18.6 million viewers tuned in for the all-out air war waged by the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys.

In what will stand as the final MNF game played in Texas Stadium, the two NFC East rivals traded leads no less than seven times, until Marion Barber

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