The “Monday Night Football” crew was gathered on Sunday when Jason Witten caught a 4-yard touchdown pass in the Cowboys’ romp of the Giants.

There was a celebration in New Orleans as their former broadcasting teammate enjoyed a successful return to the field. Texts would be exchanged later in the week between Witten and ESPN play-by-play man Joe Tessitore — and both their wives — as a decidedly different start to the football season had begun for both.

“I know that meant a lot to him and his family. It meant a lot to us that he did that on Sunday. All in all, I think everybody is in a good place,” Tessitore said.

Comfortable is the word Tessitore kept repeating when describing the new MNF alignment. The revamped broadcast will be at MetLife Stadium for the Jets and Browns on Monday night.

“This feels a little more what I am accustomed to with all my years doing college football,” Tessitore said of the Week 1 Texans-Saints thriller he and his crew called.

“Last year, we were tasked with a lot, and I’ll never be shy or regret folks who want to take chances, and we did that. But right away with this new booth, there’s definitely that well-worn-pair-of-jeans feeling now. It’s comfortable.”

The BoogerMobile has been stripped for parts (literally), and its driver, Booger McFarland, is now in the booth next to Tessitore. Witten is back on the field after saying this week he felt the “fire” to return to the Cowboys pretty early last season.

This offseason was different. It went from rehearsals and getting Witten ready before last season to the more standard approach of reviewing their work and that of their competitors to find areas of improvement. Tessitore knows any positive feelings he expresses about this season could be perceived as a dig at Witten, who was the target of much of the vitriol directed at the MNF booth a season ago.

“To the fan, if I say something like that, it’s a finger-point at Wit, and that’s not the case at all,” Tessitore said. “I am just describing how it felt with the two-man booth.”

Tessitore worked college games with McFarland, and the pair’s chemistry seemed to grow as the Saints’ thrilling victory went on. That was aided by new MNF director Jimmy Platt, who also worked with Tessitore in his college calling days. New rules analyst John Parry appeared to be a natural in his first game.

The biggest disaster of the night was the yellow down-and-distance graphic for first downs — the same color used for penalties — which ESPN was able to flip into a positive when the network adjusted it during the game, before the Twitter horde could assemble their pitchfork emojis and find their way to Bristol.

“When you have a great game, it’s easier for the viewer to say you did well,” Tessitore said. “I think it was comfortable for everybody, conversational. When the big moments happened the crew felt big. I thought Booger was really ahead of everything in the final five minutes.”