ESPN Gave J Balvin Total Control Over Curating The Music For Some ‘Monday Night Football’ Games This Season

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The 2024-25 NFL season is due to start next Thursday, September 5, when the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs host the Baltimore Ravens. The game will be broadcast on NBC. ESPN will handle the final Week 1 game between the New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers — the season’s first Monday Night Football matchup.

It will double as J Balvin’s first of seven curated Monday Night Football broadcasts.

On Thursday, August 29, ESPN announced that J Balvin “will work with ESPN throughout the 2024-25 NFL season to curate music for select ESPN Monday Night Football games,” as per a press release.

The release continues, “The curated music from J Balvin will run in Monday Night Football promotional spots, live telecasts, and Monday Night Countdown for seven weeks this season, inclusive of two NFL Playoffs weeks.”

It all begins with “Doblexxó” featuring Feid (a recent Uproxx “Best New Pop Music From This Week” selection) from Balvin’s freshly released RAYO.

Below, check out Balvin’s full ESPN curation schedule, with the note that it is subject to change.

Week 1: New York Jets at San Francisco 49ers on Monday, September 9
Week 5: New Orleans Saints @ Kansas City Chiefs on Monday, October 7
Week 6: Buffalo Bills at New York Jets on Monday, October 14
Week 11: Houston Texans at Dallas Cowboys on Monday, November 18
Week 18 Doubleheader: TBD
Monday Night Super Wild Card: TBD
Divisional: TBD

SOURCE SPORTS: Larry Fitzgerald to Join ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Countdown’

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ESPN’s Monday Night Football will have a new cast member. According to the New York Post, future Hall of Fame wide receiver and Arizona Cardinals legend Larry Fitzgerald Jr will join the Mounday Night Countdown pregame show.

Fitzgerald will step in for Randy Moss, who will now only appear on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown show. Fitz will take the air for the first time before Russell Wilson’s return to Seattle as the Denver Broncos will take on the Seattle Seahawks.

Fitzgerald will not be on the show full-time, appearing in what is reported to be five-to-seven shows during the season.

Robert Griffin III has recently been added to the show, joining a roster of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, Steve Young, Adam Schefter, and Alex Smith.

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