i remember settle down in front of the tv on monday night and just wait for that voice to introduce monday night football good evening and lady and gentleman and this be howard cosell . a this movie point out and cosell in fact be monday night football without him and a be point out in this movie and you do not have monday night football and you have football on monday night . monday night mayhem be an expose type movie and show u the mostly unsavoury event that go on behind the scene represent the tension in the broadcast booth and director chet forte gamble problem and womanize . some of it be interest and but i really do not find most of this to be particularly engross . perhaps the problem be john turturro a cosell . i be almost tempt to let him off the hook . who could really play cosell the look and the voice . but then again i have see ali and jon voight uncanny ability to capture cosell . turturro just do not do it . he never come across to me at least a howard cosell while he be always an actor try to be howard cosell ( and try too hard at time in my opinion . ) the same can be say for those portray the rest of the on air mnf cast . kevin anderson a frank gifford and brad beyer a don meredith and chad coleman a o. j. simpson and shuler hensley a keith jackson none of them seem like the real thing . that just throw me off too much . i think some of the insight into cosell be interesting . cosell come across a surprisingly insecure and not just want the approval of his superior ( especially roone arledge and play by john heard ) but need to be tell that he have their approval . in an interesting balancing act and cosell also come across a arrogant disdainful of his jock broadcast colleague and and even of monday night football itself and believe himself really more suited to more serious news reporting . there be some interesting aspect to this movie and but i never really think it find it footing and it seem to lack any real consistency . i would call it a mediocre movie at best . 4/10 .