Which two NFL teams played in the 1978 Monday Night Football nachos game?

The two NFL teams in the 1978 Monday Night Football nachos game were the Baltimore Colts and Dallas Cowboys. They met on September 4, 1978, in the season-opening Monday night broadcast linked to Howard Cosell’s on-air popularization of nachos.

Dallas dominated the game, defeating Baltimore 38–0 at Texas Stadium. The result was memorable for football reasons, but the broadcast also became part of food history because the announcing crew was served nachos and Cosell began using the term during the telecast.

This game is easy to mix up with other 1978 Monday night matchups, including Baltimore’s September 18 game against the New England Patriots. That later contest was a dramatic Colts comeback, but it was not the nachos broadcast. The snack itself originated much earlier, in 1943, when Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya prepared it in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico.