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Local Media Recall Dennis Green, Cardinals' Monday Night Meltdown

The Arizona Daily Independent says local media are revisiting the Cardinals' infamous Monday Night Meltdown, a moment it calls memorable in NFL history; there was no map.

On air: Chip Darnell and Dale Bearman on The Weekend Shift
Published 12:55 AM ET, Sunday, October 18, 2026

Photo: Christopher Patterson · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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Watch it as it aired: Chip Darnell and Dale Bearman on this story, from The Weekend Shift at 12:55 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Arizona Daily Independent's, the jokes are ours.

Photo: Arizona Cardinals — Photo: Christopher Patterson · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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First reported by Arizona Daily Independent: “Local Media Recall Dennis Green, Cardinals’ Monday Night Meltdown”.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 12:55 AM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Chip Darnell and Dale Bearman.
Topics: Cardinals.
BBN covered this story before: Seinfeld clip draws wide reaction as Cardinals fans buy billboards (October 16).

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Arizona Daily IndependentLocal Media Recall Dennis Green, Cardinals’ Monday Night Meltdown

What BBN said about it

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTeam coverage tonight, Dale!
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorLocal media in Arizona are recalling Dennis Green and the Cardinals' Monday Night Meltdown, and we have a live map of the newsroom.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe Arizona Daily Independent ran it eighty-two minutes ago. Somebody remembered a football game.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorRemembered it! Dramatically! Our map shows the memory moving from the sports desk toward the coffee machine.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat map is a rectangle.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA rectangle with a prediction! By morning, I expect at least one more paper to remember it, and I'd bet the farm on that.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorYou're calling the outcome of a story that already happened, Chip. Nobody has ever done that on this network.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThey are who we thought they were, Dale, and tonight that's a local paper.

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