Inside the longest NFL game ever, with Titans vs. Dolphins - ESPN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A mixture of lightning delays, key injuries, two kick return touchdowns, five interceptions, a fight and both teams admittedly running out of snacks, were some of the highlights (and lowlights) on a day when Mike Vrabel made his head coaching debut.

Vrabel's Tennessee Titans (4-8) face the Miami Dolphins (9-3) for «Monday Night Football» (8:15 p.m ET, ESPN), marking the first time Tennessee returns to Miami since Sept. 9, 2018 — when the two teams set a record for the longest game in NFL history in front of a sold-out Hard Rock Stadium for the season opener.

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The game lasted 7 hours, 8 minutes and finally ended with the Dolphins winning 27-20. It surpassed the previous longest game since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, when the Chicago Bears won in overtime against the Baltimore Ravens in 2013 in a matchup that went 5 hours, 16 minutes. The biggest delays were for two lightning stoppages, which combined for a total of 3 hours, 59 minutes.

«It's like, 'This one's going to be a while. So let's take our pads off and hang out,'» Vrabel said Monday, «and then try to have an idea of when [the delay] may end and try to ramp back up. Have to be ready for everything, I guess.»

Needing to be ready for everything is an understatement.

«It didn't even feel like the same day,» said former Titans linebacker Darren Bates, who's now an assistant special teams coach for the Seattle Seahawks. «It was a whole 'nother day. It didn't feel right.»

THE FIRST LIGHTNING delay came with 1:11 left in the first half. Both teams were forced into