List of Monday night National Football League games prior to 1970

Listed below are all professional American football regular season games played on Monday before the start of ABC's weekly Monday Night Football series in .
These include games televised by CBS and NBC on an experimental basis in the late 1960s. The pre-1960s games were on Mondays either as special promotions or due to schedule conflicts. The primary reason that Monday games were much more rare before the 1960s was mainly because artificial lighting was not yet widespread or good enough to provide an acceptable view of the field for a night game, along with being before the advent of color television (hence, for the first few years of night games, a specially painted white football was used), thus requiring that all games be played during the day, when most potential spectators were at work.
1930s
1934
* October 22: at Detroit Lions 28, Brooklyn Dodgers 0
:This game was scheduled for Sunday, postponed due to weather.
1936
* September 28: at Detroit Lions 39, Chicago Cardinals 0
:This game was scheduled for Sunday, postponed due to weather.
1938
* October 3: Pittsburgh Pirates 13, at New York Giants 10
1939
* October 2: Chicago Bears 32, at Pittsburgh Pirates 0
* November 6: at Brooklyn Dodgers 17, Pittsburgh Pirates 13
:This game was scheduled for Sunday, postponed due to weather.
1940s
1946
* September 30: at Chicago Cardinals 34, Detroit Lions 14
* November 11: Chicago Rockets 20, at Miami Seahawks 7 (AAFC)
* November 18: at Miami Seahawks 21, Buffalo Bisons 14 (AAFC)
* November 25: Los Angeles Dons 34, at Miami Seahawks 21 (AAFC)
* December 9: New York Yankees 31, at Miami Seahawks 0 (AAFC)
1947
* September 29: New York Giants 7, at Boston Yanks 7 (Tie)
* September 29: Los Angeles Rams 48, at Pittsburgh Steelers 7
1948
* October 4: Chicago Bears 28, at Chicago Cardinals 17
1949
* September 26: at Chicago Cardinals 38, Washington Redskins 7
* October 3: Philadelphia Eagles 22, at Detroit Lions 14
* October 3: Washington Redskins 27, at Pittsburgh Steelers 14
1950s
1950
* October 2: at Chicago Cardinals 55, Baltimore Colts 13
1951
* October 1: New York Giants 13, at Pittsburgh Steelers 13 (Tie)
* October 8: at Detroit Lions 37, New York Yanks 10
1952
* September 29: Washington Redskins 23, at Chicago Cardinals 7
1955
* September 26: at Pittsburgh Steelers 14, Chicago Cardinals 7
1960s
1964
* September 28: Green Bay Packers 14, at Detroit Lions 10
* October 12: at Baltimore Colts 47, St. Louis Cardinals 27
1965
* October 4: at St. Louis Cardinals 20, Dallas Cowboys 13
1966
* October 31: at St. Louis Cardinals 24, Chicago Bears 17 (CBS-TV)
1967
* October 30: Green Bay Packers 31, at St. Louis Cardinals 23 (CBS-TV)
1968
* September 9: Kansas City Chiefs 26, at Houston Oilers 21 (AFL) (NBC-TV)
* September 16: Los Angeles Rams 24, at St. Louis Cardinals 13 (CBS-TV)
* October 28: Green Bay Packers 28, at Dallas Cowboys 17 (CBS-TV)
1969
* October 13: at Baltimore Colts 24, Philadelphia Eagles 20
* October 20: at New York Jets 26, Houston Oilers 17 (AFL)
* October 27: at Dallas Cowboys 25, New York Giants 3 (CBS-TV)

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