The start of the NFL season is still months away, but this week the league made news, but not about anything that will happen on the field.

In week 2 of the NFL season, a woman will be the play-by-play announcer for a nationally televised football game. It's the first time that a woman has ever done that.

Beth Mowins, a veteran sports reporter - will be the first woman to call a nationally televised NFL game when the Los Angeles Chargers go up against the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football. 

The only other time a woman has done this job was more than thirty years ago when reporter Gayle Sierens called a local broadcast of an NFL game in 1987.

For more on Mowins and what it means, we talked to Christine Brennan,  an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today.