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Traina Thoughts: ESPN's 'Monday Night Football' Shows Improvement After Bad 2018

1. ESPN's Monday Night Football bounced back nicely last night after a rough 2018.

Before we get to the booth, let me start with the yellow/green down-and-distance graphic debacle.

The network unveiled a new score bug at the bottom of our screens for the Texans-Saints game. The down-and-distance was shown in yellow or green depending, I guess, on your TV settings and eyesight. (It was yellow for me.) This caused mass confusion because NFL viewers are like trained dogs and the second we see yellow, we think penalty.

Twitter did what Twitter does and hammered ESPN relentlessly about this snafu.