(UPDATE: See update below.)

ESPN worked closely with the National Football League during the off-season to schedule a special "Monday Night Football" game in the nation's capital on the eve of presidential voting next week.

Alas, everyone will be there except the two candidates -- Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain -- who will still be out campaigning late into the last night of a campaign that seems like only 22 months long.

So the MNF hosts will pre-tape satell