Editing Keith Jackson (section)

====Professional football====
In the early 1960s, Jackson covered [[American Football League on ABC|American Football League]] games.<ref name=TSN082195/> In [[1970 NFL season|1970]], he was chosen to be the first play-by-play announcer on ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' covering the [[National Football League|NFL]], but he remained in that capacity only for the program's first season.<ref name="TSN082195"/> [[Frank Gifford]] was ABC's initial target, but could not get out of his [[NFL on CBS|CBS]] contract until after the 1970 season. In [[1971 NFL season|1971]], however, Gifford landed the job. Jackson found out that he had been taken off the ''Monday Night'' package from 38 messages, not from [[Roone Arledge]] himself. This incident led to some contention between Jackson and the brass at ABC.<ref name="Sports Illustrated">{{cite news|url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1065699/2/index.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102053744/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1065699/2/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 2, 2013 |work=CNN |title=Video |date=February 9, 1987 |access-date=May 7, 2010 }}</ref> With Gifford's death in August 2015, Jackson became the last surviving member of the broadcast teams that called ''MNF'' games from the early 1970s.

Jackson was the lead play-by-play announcer for the [[United States Football League]] broadcasts on [[United States Football League on television|ABC]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://classicsportsmedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/opening-day-of-usfl-on-abc-in-1983.html |title=Opening day of the USFL on ABC in 1983 |date=March 6, 2013 |work=Classic Sports TV and Media |access-date=March 7, 2013}}</ref> from [[1983 USFL season|1983]] to [[1985 USFL season|1985]]. He was paired with [[Lynn Swann]] and [[Tim Brant]]. He called all three championship games in the league's short history.

As previously mentioned, for ABC's broadcast of [[Super Bowl XXII]] at the end of the [[1987 NFL season|1987 season]], Jackson served as the host for the pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage.