NBC Sunday Night Football

NBC Sunday Night Football
Format	Sports
Starring	Commentators: Al Michaels Cris Collinsworth Michele Tafoya Studio hosts: Bob Costas Dan Patrick Tony Dungy Rodney Harrison
Theme music composer	John Williams (main theme) Desmond Child and Joan Jett (opening theme)[1]
Opening theme	"Sunday Night Football Theme"[1] Performed by Pink in 2006 and Faith Hill since 2007
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	6
Production
Location(s)	NFL stadiums NBC Studio 8G, New York City
Running time	180 minutes+ until the conclusion of the game
Production company(s)	National Football League NBC Sports
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV)
Original run	August 6, 2006 (2006-08-06) – present
External links
Website

NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth as the color commentator and Michele Tafoya as the sideline reporter. Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff, the lead producer and director respectively, carry over their duties from ABC's telecasts of Monday Night Football. John Madden, the color commentator for the first three years of the program, retired prior to the 2009 season;^[2] Collinsworth succeeded him.

ESPN, which aired Sunday night games from the 1987 through 2005 NFL seasons, took over Monday Night Football from sister network ABC starting in 2006.

Studio show

For more details on this topic, see Football Night in America.

The studio show Football Night in America, featuring Bob Costas, Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, and Peter King precedes the broadcast each week, featuring a recap of the other Sunday NFL contests. Costas, Tafoya, Collinsworth, and Michaels also contribute to the studio show from the game site.

Contract

NBC's contract also includes the season-opening Thursday night NFL Kickoff Game and two Saturday games in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. The network aired, or will air, two Super Bowl games during the six years of the deal, following the 2008 (Super Bowl XLIII) and 2011 (Super Bowl XLVI) seasons, and two Pro Bowl games the week before their Super Bowl telecasts as part of a new contractual policy in which the network with the Super Bowl normally also airs the Pro Bowl.

In addition, NBC is the current home of the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, which begins the NFL's preseason each August. However, the 2007 game aired on the NFL Network because the league had planned to stage the China Bowl just a few days later, to be televised by NBC as a tie-in to its coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in that country. The China Bowl has since been postponed indefinitely. Normally, there are two other pre-season telecasts on NBC; however, because of the Beijing Olympics, only two were shown in 2008. The second, on August 28 shortly after the closing ceremonies, started at an early time of 7 p.m. ET so as not to interfere with Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

During Wild Card Saturday, Tom Hammond (play-by-play) and Cris Collinsworth (color commentator) called the afternoon game for NBC from 2006–09, while Al Michaels and John Madden handled the evening game. In addition, due to Madden's fear of flying, Collinsworth substituted for Madden on October 19, 2008 for the game featuring the Seattle Seahawks at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This was due to Madden not wanting to make back-to-back-to-back cross-country trips via bus (the October 5 game was in Jacksonville and the October 12 game was in San Diego). Collinsworth was commentator for the Pro Bowl in Honolulu, Hawaii for Madden following Super Bowl XLIII, and (in his new capacity as Michaels' new broadcast partner) will presumably do so again after Super Bowl XLVI. Madden has stated he would only travel to Hawaii if he had to commentate a Super Bowl there (likely on an NBC charter flight or on General Electric's larger corporate jet; it is mentioned in his book One Size Doesn't Fit All that his fear was based on commercial flights and not charter or private planes; he never had a problem flying on charter flights when coaching the Oakland Raiders, as was mentioned in said book). For the 2009–10 playoffs, Hammond teamed with Joe Gibbs and Joe Theismann to call the early Wild Card game, while Michaels and Collinsworth worked the late game.^[3] For the 2010–11 playoffs, Hammond and Mike Mayock called the early Wild Card game, while Michaels and Collinsworth worked the late game.^[4]

Scheduling

For more details on each game's results and statistics, see NBC Sunday Night Football results (2006-present).

Opening game

The first regular season game to be shown by NBC under this contract, Miami at Pittsburgh, aired September 7, 2006, followed by the first Sunday-night game—Indianapolis at the New York Giants—on September 10, 2006. The actual first game of the run—the 2006 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game between Oakland and Philadelphia—was televised on August 6, 2006.

Flexible scheduling

NBC Sunday Night Football is the beneficiary of the league's new flexible-scheduling system. For the final seven weeks of the season (seven of the final eight weeks during the 2006 and 2011 seasons because of Christmas weekend), the NFL has the flexibility in selecting games to air on Sunday night.

World Series conflicts

In its first four seasons of Sunday night coverage, NBC took one week off in late October or early November, so as not to conflict with Fox's coverage of baseball's World Series. In 2006 NBC did not air a game on October 22, which was the set date for World Series Game 2, but a potential conflict still existed on October 29 had the series gone seven games (the conflict never arose, however, as the 2006 World Series ended in five games). With the change in World Series scheduling beginning in 2007, NBC did not air a game in order to avoid a conflict with World Series Game 4, which is the first chance a team would have to clinch the series. In 2007, there was no game on October 28; in 2008, there was no game on October 26; and, in 2009, there was no game on November 1. Although no games aired on these nights, Football Night in America still aired as scheduled at 7 PM Eastern.

NBC televised a game on October 31, 2010 and again on October 23, 2011, opposite Game 4 of the World Series on Fox in both cases. Both games featured the New Orleans Saints at home, first in 2010 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, then in 2011 against the Indianapolis Colts.

Ratings have been mixed for these results, with the NFL winning in 2010 while MLB won in 2011. While the Saints won both games, the former matchup featuring a major ratings draw in the Steelers, combined with the latter matchup against the Colts being a 62-7 blowout while Game 4 of the 2011 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers was a more closely-contested game, caused the ratings to slip in 2011.^[5]

2006

In the 2006 season, in addition to the World Series off week, there was no game scheduled for Christmas Eve night; NBC broadcast that week's game (Eagles at Cowboys) on Christmas afternoon instead. A half-hour version of Football Night in America aired before the Christmas game and the two "Wild Card Saturday" games. During the 2006 season, no game was initially scheduled for NBC in the affected weeks—instead, the schedule slot for the NBC game was left blank, with one Sunday afternoon game being moved to the primetime slot (the schedule for the affected weeks simply read 'one of these games will move to 8:15 Eastern'). CBS and Fox could each protect four of its games during Weeks 10–15 and also each protect one of its games for Week 17; however, these two networks had to decide which games to protect in early October 2006, after Week 4 of the NFL season.

2007

For the first time since NBC gained the rights to Sunday Night Football, a tentative full-season schedule was unveiled, including games in the last seven weeks of the season. Those games could be replaced under flexible scheduling if the need arose. The same rules under which CBS and FOX protect games for their own packages still apply.

Three of the games in the last seven weeks were eventually replaced with more compelling matches. This resulted in the unprecedented situation—twice—of having a team playing consecutive Sunday nights. New England had consecutive Sunday nighters: the November 18 New England at Buffalo game was moved to prime time and was followed on November 25 by the already-scheduled Philadelphia at New England game. Likewise, the Washington Redskins played a scheduled game at the New York Giants on December 16, and their December 23 game in Minnesota was moved to prime time. For the last week of the season, the Tennessee Titans–Indianapolis Colts game was moved, switching places with the Kansas City Chiefs–New York Jets game that was originally scheduled in the Sunday Night slot; the Titans needed a win to secure the final AFC playoff spot.

In addition, the annual preseason Hall of Fame Game telecast was shifted to NFL Network in anticipation of NBC airing the China Bowl contest from Beijing; however, the China Bowl was canceled.

2008

The 2008 schedule, released April 15, continued the 2007 practice of a scheduled game possibly being moved in favor of a more compelling one during Weeks 11 through 16 (November 16 through December 21), but left the slot open on the final Sunday, December 28. The NFL Kickoff Game between the Washington Redskins and defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants that was played on September 4 started at 7:00 p.m. instead of the normal 8:30 p.m. time in order to avoid conflict with the nomination speech that John McCain gave at the Republican National Convention that night; the game ended at 10:01pm EDT, averting any conflict. As happened in 2007, a team played on consecutive Sunday nights due to a game being moved into the Sunday night time slot. The originally scheduled New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys game on December 14 was followed by a flexed December 21 home game for the Giants against the Carolina Panthers; the Giants-Panthers game was flexed because it carried serious playoff implications, as the winner would clinch the NFC's top seed and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. This was the second of three flexed games, with a December 7 interconference matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins. The league filled the open spot on December 28 with a game between the Denver Broncos and San Diego Chargers with major playoff implications, as the winner of that game would win the AFC West and earn a home game in the playoffs while the loser would be eliminated.

2009

The 2009 schedule, released April 14, continued the 2007 and 2008 practice of scheduling a game every Sunday night during the season (except during the World Series) but declaring the games in Weeks 11 through 16 (November 22 through December 27) subject to change, should a more compelling matchup arise. The pattern of the 2007 and 2008 schedules was continued, as the slot for the final Sunday night of the season—January 3, 2010—was left blank. Two games were "flexed" in the 2009 season, as the Minnesota Vikings-Arizona Cardinals game replaced the original December 8 matchup between the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins. To fill the blank game for the last week of the season NBC was given the matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and New York Jets that was originally scheduled for 4:15 on CBS, with this game having playoff implications for both teams (a playoff berth, or a higher seed in the playoffs, respectively).

2010

The 2010 schedule, released April 20, placed a Sunday night game (Pittsburgh Steelers at New Orleans Saints) against a World Series game for the first time since the NBC-Sunday night contract began. It also continued the previous practice of scheduling a Sunday night game during every week of the season, and declaring the games in Weeks 11 through 16 (November 21 through December 26) as "flex games", meaning they reverted to Sunday afternoon if a more attractive matchup arose.

The Week 16 game, between the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles, originally scheduled for December 26, was moved to December 28 due to the December 2010 North American blizzard. The NFL postponed the game after Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter declared a snow emergency for the city.^[6][7] It was the 23rd NFL game to be played on a Tuesday, but the first since 1946.^[6][7] This was the only game, outside of the final Sunday night, to be "flexed" in the 2010 season; the original schedule called for the San Diego Chargers to play the Bengals in Cincinnati (the game was moved to CBS, and was indeed blacked out in Cincinnati). Because of this, a full 90 minute edition of Football Night aired on December 26, with a short five minute pre-game leading into the game on the 28th, while Faith Hill's introduction was not played due to time constraints before kickoff.

The last Sunday night game ended up being the St. Louis Rams at the Seattle Seahawks, as the winner of that contest would win the NFC West and earn a home game in the playoffs while the loser would be eliminated.^[8]

2011

The 2011 schedule, released April 19, once again placed a Sunday night game (Indianapolis Colts at New Orleans Saints on October 23, the fourth straight time these teams played each other on national TV) opposite a World Series game. Sunday night games between November 13 and December 18 (inclusive) are "flex games", and could revert to Sunday afternoon if a more competitive matchup arose. The final Sunday night of the season—January 1, 2012—is likewise a "flex game"; the slot, blank when the schedule was released, will be filled by a game with playoff implications. The Hall of Fame Game scheduled for August 7, and to be shown on NBC, was canceled due to the lockout that offseason; it was the only game to be affected.

The NFL announced on November 8th that the Week 13 rivalry game between the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots would be moved to 1 PM on CBS, while a replacement game would be announced by November 22nd.^[9] This was due to the Colts struggling without star quarterback Peyton Manning and, following a 62-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints in a Sunday night game in Week 7, is expected to be a relatively easy game for the Patriots. This also marked the first time the NFL announced that a Sunday night game was being moved to the afternoon without announcing a replacement right away. On November 14th, the NFL decided to keep the Week 12 matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs on November 27th in place after the league considered flexing it out for other matchups, particularly the AFC East showdown between the Buffalo Bills & New York Jets and the interconference matchup between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers & Tennessee Titans, due to the AFC West (where the Chiefs play) being a weak division for 2011.^[10]

2011 schedule

Preseason

Date	Kickoff (EDT)	Visiting Team	Final Score	Host Team	Stadium
Sunday, August 21	8:00 p.m.	San Diego Chargers	20–7	Dallas Cowboys	Cowboys Stadium
Sunday, August 28	8:00 p.m.	New Orleans Saints	40–20	Oakland Raiders	O.co Coliseum

Regular season

Week	Date	Kickoff (ET)	Visiting Team	Final Score	Host Team	Game Site
1	Thursday, September 8	8:30 p.m.	New Orleans Saints	34–42	Green Bay Packers	Lambeau Field
	Sunday, September 11	8:20 p.m.	Dallas Cowboys	24–27	New York Jets	MetLife Stadium
2	Sunday, September 18	8:20 p.m.	Philadelphia Eagles	31–35	Atlanta Falcons	Georgia Dome
3	Sunday, September 25	8:20 p.m.	Pittsburgh Steelers	23–20	Indianapolis Colts	Lucas Oil Stadium
4	Sunday, October 2	8:20 p.m.	New York Jets	17–34	Baltimore Ravens	M&T Bank Stadium
5	Sunday, October 9	8:20 p.m.	Green Bay Packers	25–14	Atlanta Falcons	Georgia Dome
6	Sunday, October 16	8:20 p.m.	Minnesota Vikings	10–39	Chicago Bears	Soldier Field
7	Sunday, October 23	8:20 p.m.	Indianapolis Colts	7–62	New Orleans Saints	Mercedes-Benz Superdome
8	Sunday, October 30	8:20 p.m.	Dallas Cowboys	7–34	Philadelphia Eagles	Lincoln Financial Field
9	Sunday, November 6	8:20 p.m.	Baltimore Ravens	23–20	Pittsburgh Steelers	Heinz Field
10	Sunday, November 13	8:20 p.m.	New England Patriots	37–16	New York Jets	MetLife Stadium
11	Sunday, November 20	8:20 p.m.	Philadelphia Eagles		New York Giants	MetLife Stadium
12	Sunday, November 27	8:20 p.m.	Pittsburgh Steelers		Kansas City Chiefs	Arrowhead Stadium
13	Sunday, December 4	8:20 p.m.	TBD[11]		TBD[11]	TBD[11]
14	Sunday, December 11	8:20 p.m.	New York Giants		Dallas Cowboys	Cowboys Stadium
15	Sunday, December 18	8:20 p.m.	Baltimore Ravens		San Diego Chargers	Qualcomm Stadium
16	Sunday, December 25	8:20 p.m.	Chicago Bears		Green Bay Packers	Lambeau Field
17	Sunday, January 1	8:20 p.m.	TBD		TBD	TBD

LEGEND:

Winning team in bold.

     The teams and game site are subject to change due to flexible scheduling.

     The teams and game site will not be determined until the final week of the season.

Post season

Week	Date	Kickoff time (ET)	Visiting Team	Final Score	Host Team	Game Site
Wild Card round	Saturday, January 7	4:30 p.m.	TBD		TBD	TBD
	Saturday, January 7	8:00 p.m.	TBD		TBD	TBD
Super Bowl XLVI	Sunday, February 5	6:30 p.m.	TBD		TBD	Lucas Oil Stadium

Winning team in bold.

Similarity to ABC

Much of NBC's Sunday Night Football production crew comes from ABC/ESPN, including Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff (producer and director, respectively), as ESPN moved most of its previous Sunday night crew over to Monday Night Football. Michaels, Madden and Kremer also came to NBC directly from ABC/ESPN, and Football Night in America's Sterling Sharpe was a member of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown in recent years (calling several Sunday night games for the network in 2005).^[12] With regard to using ABC/ESPN talent, NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said, "I was not interested in the quote, unquote vanity of starting anew ... There's not a lot of room for experimentation."^[12]

Also, NBC has the starters introduce themselves, much as ABC did in the last few years of its run, and the short postgame show (so affiliates can get to their late newscasts) follows a similar format to ABC's.

Michaels and Madden ended each telecast in the 2007 and 2008 NFL seasons by selecting an MVP for that night's game to receive the Horse Trailer award (with a photo of each recipient being affixed to the side of a production truck, also known as a "horse trailer"). This concept originated on Monday Night Football after Madden joined the broadcast team in 2002. In the 2006 season, the MVP concept was modified slightly, where the game's MVP was called the "Rock Star of the Game" and had his photo placed on a display at the "Top of the Rock" observation deck atop the GE Building, NBC's New York headquarters, in New York. When Madden retired following Super Bowl XLIII, the Horse Trailer Player of the Game award was discontinued.

Theme music

Academy Award winner John Williams composed the instrumental theme music^[13] for Sunday Night Football. For Super Bowl XLIII, NBC commissioned Joel Beckerman 276071^[14] of Man Made Music to create new instrumental cues adding techno and rock elements around the main brass melody. These cues replaced the original Williams arrangements full-time at the start of the 2009 season. Singer Pink sang the theme song for the broadcast^[15] in 2006, a reworking of the Joan Jett song "I Hate Myself For Loving You" retitled "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night".^[16][17] Several alternative versions were used throughout the season, substituting different lyrics when appropriate, e.g. "Waiting All Year For Opening Night."

In 2007, country singer Faith Hill replaced Pink as the singer of the opening theme, and a new arrangement of the Joan Jett song coincided with her debut.^[18] The Faith Hill intro in particular, has not been without criticism^[19] and parody. On the October 9, 2010 episode of Saturday Night Live, host Jane Lynch as Hill (with Jason Sudeikis as Al Michaels and Bill Hader as Cris Collinsworth), lampooned the intro^[20][21]. On the 30 Rock episode "Season 4", Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) sings what appears to be an allusion to the Faith Hill intro for NBC's fictional Tennis Night in America^[22][23] program.

The use of the reworked Joan Jett song is another similarity to ABC's Monday Night Football coverage. From 1989 to 2011, Hank Williams, Jr. has opened MNF with a reworking of his song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" entitled "All My Rowdy Friends Are Back for Monday Night (Are You Ready for Some Football?)".

Show opening

The song is at the centerpiece of the opening montage, which has changed in the following ways over the years. Williams' music has always played in the background over the official welcome after the opening is completed and the teams take the field.

2006

For the first season, Pink appeared to sing from the top of a skyscraper as a helicopter zoomed down on a city skyline with enlarged players Shaun Alexander, LaDainian Tomlinson and Tom Brady and the field, the results of computer-generated imagery. A television monitor, which resembles NBC's monitor at Times Square, showed game preview footage and opening credits.

2007

Faith Hill, who replaced Pink, sang on a stage while some of the key players in the game and announcers Michaels and Madden arrived in limousines and walk on a red carpet as they head to a simulated theater. The marquee outside the theater showed the logo of then-official NFL communications partner Sprint, which paid a product placement fee, and one of the "bystanders" recorded the red carpet scene on a Sprint camera phone. Access Hollywood co-hosts Shaun Robinson and Tony Potts also appeared in the opening. Also, some of the lyrics were changed slightly and the musical arrangement tilts toward country more than rock, to reflect the change in singers.

2008

The 2008 opening, which debuted on September 7, takes place in a stadium. Hill performs surrounded by video screens with simulated game action, and the song ends with a computer-generated fireworks display. Once again, a Sprint camera phone is used, this time by a fan. Among the spectators are NFL stars Ray Lewis and Antonio Gates. Again, there were some lyrics changes, among them was the substitution of the lyrics "last one standing better turn out the lights."^[24]

2009

Faith Hill sang the theme song for the third straight year. This time, she performed in a closed-studio setting, surrounded by video monitors, neon lights, and a message board that displayed the names of the production staff. Sprint returned for more product placement, as a branded cell phone appeared to give an alert that the game was about to start.

2010

Faith Hill was seen in front of a Ford Mustang convertible as the song began, overlooking a bluff; the scene was taped in the Hollywood Hills in Southern California. A number of NFL stars appeared in front of various landmarks throughout the United States, including Peyton Manning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Eli Manning at Times Square, Desean Jackson at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Larry Fitzgerald in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Drew Brees on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Hill herself drove down a road with some simulated billboards with the opening credits and a product placement ad for Verizon (which replaced Sprint as the league's telecommunications sponsor) and was also seen at the Washington Monument. Some of the lyrics changed yet again; for example, the opening line once again asked, "Alright, Sunday night, where are you?" Hill gathered with the NFL stars on a computer-generated football field inside a stadium at the end of the video. In Week 16, the introduction did not air due to the game moving to Tuesday night and time constraints.

2011

There were a few significant changes from the previous year, including Faith Hill (who herself returned for her 5th year as part of the telecast's opening) arriving in a motorcycle. Also, Verizon returned for more product placement. And most of the scenes, including the NFL stars' appearances in front of various landmarks throughout the U.S. and Hill at the Washington Monument (with the minor difference being her wardrobe), were repeated from 2010, as mentioned above. Several new stars appeared, including Adrian Peterson and Brian Urlacher; and in the last few seconds, all of them gather on a computer-generated football field. In another notable change, the opening credits are gone. J. Ivy, a spoken word poet from Chicago who has worked with Kanye West and Jay-Z, also appears during the opening.

Graphics

The scoring banner used from 2006 to 2008.

NBC's Sunday Night Football graphics, logos and scoreboard were designed by Troika Design Group, along with the city skyline graphics used in the introductions to both Football Night in America and the game itself.^[25] It was effectively the first time the network used permanent time/score boxes throughout any of their sports broadcasts outside of Olympic Games broadcasts, where permanent scoring displays were compulsory; previous to 2006 the network continued the previous mode of score presentation of flashing the score on-screen for a short time every few minutes or so seen in American sports broadcasting until Fox's 1994 introduction of constant scoring displays.

NBC's game telecasts use the same type of bottom-line scoreboard that Monday Night Football used in the 2005 NFL season (and was subsequently used by ABC Sports until its rebranding in August 2006). After its debut, the graphics also began to be phased in across other NBC Sports properties, including its coverage of Notre Dame football and the annual Bayou Classic game (which uses the exact graphics used on SNF broadcasts), National Hockey League coverage (which uses the SNF graphics but with a scoreboard on the top), and tennis and golf (which use a modified version influenced by the look, but with bolder text for readability purposes). NBC's Olympics coverage continues to use a different package mixed between NBC's graphics and those of the IOC's world feed. The NBC football graphics are also used, in some form or another, on certain local preseason telecasts carried by the network's stations who are the flagship stations to NFL teams (such as New York Giants preseason games on WNBC, and the Minnesota Vikings on KARE-TV).

The scoring banner used in 2009. Notice the addition of timeout indicators at the bottom, and the cleaner looking font in the team's initials.

NBC's bottom-line scoring banner underwent a significant revamp for the 2009 season. The revamped banner debuted during the network's Super Bowl XLIII coverage on February 1, 2009. The changes included presenting downs and yardage in a feather derived from NBC's famous peacock logo in the colors of the team currently on offense. Also, when a team scores a touchdown, the banner will open, the team's logo and initials will slide to the left of the banner and "TOUCHDOWN" is displayed in the remainder of the banner. After a few moments, the banner will show the drive information. Then the banner returns to normal and show the change in the team's score. Additionally (beginning with Week 9), timeout indicators were added below each team's respective scores. For the 2010 season, the timeout indicators were changed to 3 white trapezoids below the team abbreviations, and the play clock was moved from above the team in possession of the football to above the game clock (for the final 2 minutes of regulation and if necessary, overtime). The down markers also changed in 2010, which is now featuring the team logo next to the down marker.

International broadcasts

In Canada, SNF telecasts are seen live on TSN, using the NBC feed, which is subject to simsubbing on cable and satellite providers. In the United Kingdom, SNF is aired live on Channel 4 carrying the NBC branding and commentators during games, it is hosted by Danny Kelly and analysed by Mike Carlson.

See also

• Flexible scheduling
• NFL on NBC
• Monday Night Football
• ESPN Sunday Night Football
• TNT Sunday Night Football
• Sunday Night Football (radio)

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24. ^ This may be a paraphrase.
25. ^ Troika Design Group Creates New Identity and Packaging for "NBC Sunday Night Football"

External links

Official sites

• NBC Sunday Night Football Extra
• NBC Sunday Night Football All Access
• NBC Sunday Night Football on Facebook
• NBC Sunday Night Football on Twitter
• Andrea Kremer (SNF sideline reporter) on Twitter

Others

• NBC Sunday Night Football at the Internet Movie Database
• NBC Sunday Night Football at TV.com
• New NBC talking heads have history across NFL telecasts
• NBC a much happier NFL TV Partner – Sports Business News October 27, 2006