query: who sings the theme song for nbc sunday night football

pos: NBC Sunday Night Football Sunday Night Football Thanksgiving Special" broadcast. This opening was also not used on December 16, 2012, two days after the Sandy Hook shooting. Carrie Underwood became the performer for the theme song for the 2013 season, replacing Faith Hill. Her intro debuted on September 8, with the theme arrangement itself tilted even more towards country to reflect the change in singers. In this animation sequence, Carrie Underwood performs on stage inside a computer-generated stadium. Verizon also returned for more product placement. Some of the NFL stars appearing in this opening include Andrew Luck (Indianapolis Colts), Eli Manning (Giants), Peyton Manning

pos: NFL on NBC music the "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" theme song for "NBC Sunday Night Football".and A brand New Song is Oh, Sunday Night Miranda Lambert Song on her Platinum and At the Super Bowl LII She and Ludacris Create a New Song The Champion (song) Which Also Incuded on Carrie Underwood sixth Studio Album Cry Pretty as a Bonus Track. NFL on NBC music The 1985 season saw a new theme utilized throughout both the pregame show and game-opening sequence. This theme would be utilized for the remainder of the decade. Another music selection was used for the "Great Moments" segment,

pos: NBC Sunday Night Football announced May 7, 2013, that Carrie Underwood would take over singing the theme song. A new Carrie Underwood-sung theme known as "Oh, Sunday Night", which takes elements from her 2014 duet hit with Miranda Lambert, "Somethin' Bad", premiered with the opening game of the 2016 season on September 11. For NBC's coverage of "Thursday Night Football" in 2016 and 2017, a capella group Pentatonix sung the opening theme song called "Weekend Go." The song is a reworked version of their original song "Sing." NBC also used the "TNF" main theme music called "Can't Hold Us Down," performed by members of

pos: NBC Sunday Night Football the Broadway orchestra for "Hamilton". In 2018, Underwood, along with songwriters Chris DeStefano & Brett James, wrote and recorded a brand new song for SNF, called “Game On!”, replacing “Oh, Sunday Night,” which had been the opening theme since 2016. In addition, Joel Beckerman, who had orchestrated the main theme since Super Bowl XLIII, reorchestrated the main theme, for the first time since Super Bowl XLVI. The song is at the centerpiece of the opening montage, which has changed several times over the years. Carrie Underwood’s music has always played in the background over the official welcome after the opening

pos: Somethin' Bad million views on Vevo and was nominated for a 2014 CMA for "Video of the Year." In June 2016, NBC Sports announced that "Somethin' Bad" would form the basis of Underwood's new theme for "NBC Sunday Night Football" starting with the 2016 NFL season. Titled "Oh, Sunday Night", it replaced "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night", itself inspired by an existing song (Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You"). Somethin' Bad "Somethin' Bad" is a song recorded as a duet by American country music artists Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood. The song was written by Chris DeStefano, Brett James,

pos: NFL on NBC music song "I've Been Waitin' All Day for Sunday Night"; which was a customized version of Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You" (analogous to "All My Rowdy Friends Are Back for Monday Night (Are You Ready for Some Football?)", Hank Williams, Jr.'s reworking of his own song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" for ABC's "Monday Night Football"). The 2006 version was sung by singer Pink, while Faith Hill has done subsequent seasons, along with a second version for the network's Super Bowl coverage. For 2013 & 2014, country/pop singer Carrie Underwood sings a new version of

pos: The Champion (song) by NBC in the United States; Underwood also performs the theme song for the network's "Sunday Night Football". Underwood stated that "the main focus was to celebrate athletes at the top of their game, but we also wanted the song to resonate with people in their everyday lives". The song was featured in the intro for NBC's Super Bowl LII broadcast; in the sequence, Carrie Underwood performed on a soundstage with a screen showing highlights from past Super Bowl games. The song is set in the key of G minor with a tempo of 90 beats per minute in common

pos: NBC Sunday Night Football (Denver Broncos), Clay Matthews (Packers) and J. J. Watt (Houston Texans). The animation ends with the "NBC Sunday Night Football" logo written in laser lighting. Beginning with this season, the opening was not used for any playoff game aired on NBC. Carrie Underwood continued her role as "Sunday Night Football"s show opener, which debuted on September 7. Once again, Verizon returned to provide product placement. Some of the NFL stars that are represented in the opening are Philip Rivers (San Diego Chargers), Luke Kuechly (Carolina Panthers), DeMarcus Ware (Broncos), Clay Matthews (Packers), Brandon Marshall (Chicago Bears), Jimmy Graham (Saints), LeSean

pos: Chris DeStefano Chris DeStefano Christopher Michael DeStefano is a Grammy Award Winning American singer/songwriter, record producer and multi instrumentalist, raised in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and currently residing in Nashville, Tennessee. As a songwriter, he has multiple #1 songs with artists Carrie Underwood (“Good Girl”, "Little Toy Guns"), Billy Currington (“Hey Girl”), Brett Eldredge ("Don't Ya"), Luke Bryan ("That's My Kind of Night", "Kick the Dust Up" ), Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood ("Somethin' Bad," later reworked as the opening theme for "NBC Sunday Night Football"), Rascal Flatts ("Rewind") and Jason Aldean ("Just Gettin' Started"). Underwood's "Good Girl", which DeStefano co-wrote, reached

neg: NFL on Westwood One Sports Dave Lamont who departed for a college football play-by-play position at ESPN. Brent Musburger was the original studio host for the network and was eventually replaced by Greg Gumbel who in turn was replaced by Tighe. For the 2006 season, NBC co-produced "NFL Sunday" and turned it into an abbreviated radio version of its "Football Night in America" TV pregame, complete with the John Williams-composed "NBC Sunday Night Football" theme song. Al Trautwig started the season as host of the show, but was replaced by Graham in the middle of the season. The format of "NBC NFL Sunday" (as the

neg: NFL on NBC music Packers. NBC lost AFC television rights after 1997 to CBS which currently has them today. The NFL would not return to NBC until 2006 for Sunday Night Football. NBC still uses the 1995-1997 era theme, but only for "Sunday Night Football" online (dubbed NBC Sunday Night Football Extra) if you open the feed prior to the game start time. Starting in 2006, NBC unveiled a new theme composed by John Williams, who was responsible for the music utilized by the news division since the mid-1980s, for the "Football Night in America" pregame show. Also, the game introduction music was the

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Hill announced that she would no longer sing the intro song for "Sunday Night Football". The use of the reworked Joan Jett song is another similarity to ABC's "Monday Night Football" coverage. From 1989 to 2011 and again beginning in 2017, Hank Williams, Jr. opens "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?)". On October 7, 2012, the Soul Rebels Brass Band had a featured performance on "Sunday Night Football", performing the show's theme song. It was

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football intro, in particular, was not without criticism and parody. The intro was lampooned in the October 9, 2010 episode of "Saturday Night Live", with host Jane Lynch as Hill (with Jason Sudeikis as Al Michaels and Bill Hader as Cris Collinsworth). In the "30 Rock" episode "Season 4", the character of Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) sings what appears to be an allusion to the Faith Hill intro for NBC's fictional "Tennis Night in America" program. In the "South Park" episode entitled "Faith Hilling", Eric Cartman sings an obvious spoof of Hill's actual "Sunday Night Football" song. On April 15, 2013,

neg: Carrie Underwood Anthem for Super Bowl XLIV. Underwood performed the opening theme song for "NBC Sunday Night Football." Hill later expressed full support for Underwood, congratulating her via Twitter and stating that it was "an awesome choice" by NBC/SNF and that Underwood "will rock it". Underwood's original song was a modification of her song "Oh, Sunday Night", but was changed to an original song, "Game On", for the 2018 NFL season. She sang the National Anthem for the Nashville Predators prior to their victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the first round of the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs and

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football 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 in 2006, a reworking of the Joan Jett song "I Hate Myself for Loving You" retitled "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night". Several alternative versions were used throughout the season, substituting different lyrics when appropriate (such as "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. The Faith Hill

neg: NFL on NBC to CBS which currently has them today. The NFL would not return to NBC until 2006 for "Sunday Night Football". NBC still uses the 1995 to 1997 era theme, but only for online streams of "Sunday Night Football" online (dubbed "NBC Sunday Night Football Extra") if the feed is accessed prior to the start of the game. NBC's rebound in overall ratings in both the 1980s and 1990s (after years of being in the bottom of the ratings cellar) was attributed in part to its continuing coverage of the NFL. But with television contract re-negotiations in early 1998 ushering in

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football the bar. However, the timeout indicators on NBC's "TNF" score bar are stacked to the right of the team's abbreviations, as opposed to underneath them on the network's own "SNF" score bar. For the 2017 season, "TNF" games produced by NBC but aired exclusively on NFL Network outside of team markets have the NBC logos removed but use the same graphics and theme music. NBC debuted a new graphics package specifically for "Sunday Night Football" during Super Bowl LII. NBC producer Fred Gaudell stated that the network wanted the Sunday night games to have a more distinctive presentation to set

neg: Roundball Rock co-hosts with his wife Connie Sellecca. On September 17, 2017, NBC briefly played the song heading into a commercial break during a "Sunday Night Football" game, over a replay of a jump shot-themed touchdown celebration by Atlanta Falcons players Devonta Freeman and Andy Levitre. Fox Sports announced in December 2018 that it had acquired the rights to "Roundball Rock", which it will play for select college basketball broadcasts. Roundball Rock "Roundball Rock" is a theme song composed by John Tesh and used for "The NBA on NBC" from 1990 until 2002. NBC played the song 12,000 times during their run.

neg: Hawk Nelson also appeared on some of the band's songs, as well as in their video for the song "California". The band has achieved some success in the mainstream as well. They portrayed The Who on an episode of the NBC drama "American Dreams", and they recorded a song named "Bring 'Em Out" as the theme for the 2005 motion picture "Yours, Mine and Ours" featuring Drake Bell. This song and another hit song "The Show" were both used on Sunday Night Football commercials. "Things We Go Through" from "Letters to the President" was also featured in "Yours, Mine and Ours". In

neg: Mark Bright (record producer) day for Sunday night" which was replaced in 2016 using a new tune based on Underwood's country song "Somethin' Bad", but with new lyrics and other changes to fit the show. and changes the theme song again now is "Game On" for the 2018 NFL Season NBC Sunday Night Football. In 2006, Bright sold Teracel Music Publishing, along with Teracel's roster of writers which included Brett James and three members of Rascal Flatts, to Dimensional Music Publishing. According to industry analyst David Ross, the 2005 sale price was the highest multiple ever paid for a joint venture at that time.

neg: Joan Jett at Memorial Stadium. Until the 2016 season, the melody for her song "I Hate Myself for Loving You" was used as the theme music for "NBC Sunday Night Football" with re-worked lyrics and retitled "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night". Jett has also been a consistent supporter of the United States Armed Forces, throughout her career and has toured for the United Service Organizations for over 20 years, and even performed at the United States Military Academy. In 1983, musical satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic released a parody of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" entitled "I Love Rocky Road", changing the

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Sunday Night Football will have a rules analyst for the first time in program history, as the network added Terry McAulay, who retired after the 2017 season. McAulay has worked three Super Bowls in his tenure as an NFL referee. McAulay will also work the Notre Dame Football games for NBC, with FNIA studio host, Mike Tirico. Much of NBC's "Sunday Night Football" production crew comes from ABC/ESPN, including Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff (who respectively serve as producer and director of the broadcasts), as ESPN moved most of its previous Sunday night crew over to "Monday Night Football". Michaels,

neg: Thursday Night Football of the games on NFL Network. The first game produced by NBC Sports was broadcast exclusively on NFL Network on November 3, 2016, while the first game simulcast nationally on NBC aired on November 17. A cappella group Pentatonix recorded a reworked version of their song "Sing" ("Weekend Go") to serve as the opening theme song for NBC's "Thursday Night Football" telecasts; NBC also commissioned new instrumental theme music by Jimmy Greco, "Can't Hold Us Down", which was performed by members of the orchestra from the Broadway musical "Hamilton". Both were retained for NBC's games in 2017. On April 4,

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football 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 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 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. Academy Award winner John Williams composed the instrumental theme music, titled "Wide Receiver," for "Sunday Night Football". For Super Bowl XLIII, NBC commissioned Joel Beckerman of Man Made Music to create new instrumental cues adding techno and rock elements around the main

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football NBC Sunday Night Football NBC Sunday Night Football (abbreviated as SNF) is a weekly television broadcast of National Football League (NFL) games on NBC in the United States. It began airing on August 6, 2006 with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, which opened that year's preseason. NBC took over the rights to the Sunday prime time game telecasts from ESPN, which carried the broadcasts from 1987 to 2005 (concurrently with NBC assuming the rights to Sunday evening regular-season games, ESPN took over the broadcast rights to "Monday Night Football" from sister network ABC beginning with the 2006 season).

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football results NBC Sunday Night Football results The following is a detailed list of results and scores from National Football League games aired on NBC under the game package NBC Sunday Night Football. The list includes both regular season and post-season game results, both produced by NBC Sports, from the 2006 NFL season to the present. The NFL instated a new "flex-scheduling" policy in which the NFL could choose a game to be aired in primetime on NBC based on the team's current performance and record. Previously, Sunday night NFL games were televised by ESPN, from 1987–2005, and TNT, from 1990–1997. Starting

neg: Thursday Night Football games. As a result of CBS taking over production responsibilities for the "Thursday Night Football" broadcasts, its number one broadcast team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms took over the broadcast booth. With NBC adding games in 2016, Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, the broadcast team of "NBC Sunday Night Football", were required under league contract to do the same. NBC had initially hired former "Monday Night Football" play-by-play man Mike Tirico for Thursdays before the league nixed the idea of any separate broadcast teams for Sunday and Thursday nights. Tirico would eventually call three "Sunday Night Football" games, including

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football the September 6th Kickoff Game between the Falcons and Eagles, nor on Thanksgiving Night between the Falcons and the Saints (the latter of which featured Emeril Lagasse in the open). However, although the Kickoff Game had no intro, NBC used a snipet of Underwood’s song The Champion, to commemorate the Eagles’ Super Bowl Championship, which then lead into the Banner Unveiling, the singing of Fly, Eagles Fly, and the introduction of the Super Bowl Champion Eagles, All led by Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins. The graphics, logos and scoreboard for NBC's "Sunday Night Football" telecasts were designed by Troika Design

neg: Houston Texans are aired over CBS affiliate KHOU, FOX affiliate KRIV if the Texans host an NFC team, and NBC affiliate KPRC for Sunday night games. Spanish-language radio broadcasts of the team's games are aired on KGOL ESPN Deportes 1180AM. Enrique Vásquez is the play-by-play announcer. José Jojo Padrón provides color commentary, and Fernando Hernández serves as sideline reporter. Texans Radio Affiliates Until 2017, the theme song of the Texans was "It's Football Time In Houston" by Clay Walker, played after every Texans touchdown. The Texans tried to introduce a new fight song in 2003 written by Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, but

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football results the first ever tie on NBC Sunday Night Football, which occurred in week 7, when the Seahawks and Cardinals tied at 6-6. Seahawks-Cardinals also became the lowest scoring SNF on NBC game to date, with 12 total points, and the first primetime NFL game tie since November 23, 1997, when the Redskins and Giants tied at 7-7 on ESPN Sunday Night Football. Due to NBC having the rights to the second half of the Thursday Night Football package, NBC Sports gave Al Michaels a "Bye week", giving him 3 games off: Packers-Redskins, Steelers-Colts (Thanksgiving), and Chiefs-Broncos. Mike Tirico replaced him

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football returned for her 6th season on September 9. "Game On" replaced "Oh Sunday Night" as the opening theme. In the open, she is singing into a microphone with video screens in the background. Underwood is joined by several NFL stars before the cheerleaders join her. The open ends with Underwood on the rooftop of a skyscraper. In another significant change, the logo of Pepsi (the official soft drink of the NFL, which paid a product placement fee) is shown. It replaced Verizon as the product placement sponsor in the "SNF" open. As in past years, this theme was heard before

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Michele Tafoya as the sideline reporter. Upon NBC's assumption of the Sunday prime time game rights, Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff, who serve as the respective lead producer and director, joined "Sunday Night Football" in the same positions they held during the latter portion of the ABC era of "Monday Night Football". John Madden, the color commentator for the first three years of the program, retired prior to the 2009 season; he was succeeded in that role by Collinsworth. Since 2014, sister cable channel NBC Universo has carried Spanish-language simulcasts of select games, after years of aborted attempts to simulcast

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Giants against the Washington Redskins. In Week 16, due to the fact that Christmas Eve fell on a Sunday, the game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers aired on Saturday, December 23. For the second time since flex scheduling went into effect, no Sunday night games were flexed during the season—including (for the first time since NBC got the Sunday night package) Week 17. This was NBC's second year of producing Thursday Night Football with CBS and NFL Network. In addition to airing 5 Thursday night games, NBC along with NFL Network also aired the Pittsburgh Steelers

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football results with the 2006 NFL season, NBC was awarded the rights to air Sunday night primetime American football games, as well as the rights to air two games of the NFL playoffs. In February 2009, NBC concluded their third season of the game package by broadcasting Super Bowl XLIII and the 2009 Pro Bowl from Honolulu, Hawai'i. The game package also includes broadcast rights to the NFL Kickoff Game, the late-night Thanksgiving game, and Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. Listed below are games and their respective results played from 2006—"present". "NBC Sunday Night Football" wrapped up its inaugural season [in

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football results on a Sunday in 2017, the Week 16 Sunday night telecast was instead scheduled for Saturday, December 23, with the Vikings visiting the Packers. NBC also broadcast Super Bowl LII, played at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, making it the 4th time NBC had broadcast a Super Bowl since taking over the Sunday night package in 2006. NBC did not flex a single one of their originally scheduled games, which marked the second time since 2014 that none of the originally scheduled Sunday night games for the entire season were flexed out. For the first time since acquiring the Sunday

neg: NFL on NBC the 1997 season, after which NBC lost the AFC contract to CBS. NFL coverage returned to NBC on August 6, 2006, under the title NBC Sunday Night Football, beginning with its coverage of the preseason Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. From 2016 to 2017, NBC added a five-game "Thursday Night Football" package to its offerings supplementing two Thursday games that were already part of the "Sunday Night Football" package. Game coverage is usually preceded by the pregame show "Football Night in America". NBC's coverage of the National Football League (which has aired under numerous program titles and formats) actually

neg: John Williams of his feature films. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, "NBC Sunday Night Football", "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series "Lost in Space" and "Land of the Giants", and the incidental music for the first season of "Gilligan's Island". Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. From 1980 to 1993 he served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor, and is currently the orchestra's laureate conductor. Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film

neg: ESPN Sunday Night Football Kolber replaced Solomon Wilcots, who joined CBS as a color commentator. In 2002, ESPN's "SNF" crew covered the new Thursday, opening night kickoff game. In 2004, Pat Summerall replaced Patrick for the preseason and for several regular season weeks following Patrick's recovery from open-heart surgery. After the 2005 season, ESPN ended this package in favor of picking up the broadcast rights to "Monday Night Football" from ABC. NBC picked up the rights to ESPN's Sunday night games. To replace "Sunday Night Football" ESPN moved its late-season "Sunday Night Baseball" broadcasts back to the network and replaced most of the rest

neg: NFL on NBC which often led to teams with losing records playing each other on Monday night later in the season. The moves were intended to break NBC out of its ratings slump; however, this did not happen right away, and although "NBC Sunday Night Football" is the network's top-rated program and places in the top 30 among all broadcast network programs, it had no effect on the rest of the network's schedule for several years. Al Michaels, the longtime voice of "Monday Night Football" and other events for ABC, moved to NBC to become the play-by-play announcer for "Sunday Night Football". Michaels

neg: The Soul Rebels of Living Colour. In December 2011, The Soul Rebels appeared on the BBC Two's "Later with Jools Holland" on the same episode as Metallica and Lou Reed. HBO's original series "Treme" featured The Soul Rebels performing "Drink A Little Poison (4 U Die)" on the season one finale episode and in season 4 episode two with Galactic and Corey Glover of Living Colour performing "Hey Na Na". On October 7, 2012, The Soul Rebels had a featured performance on NBC Sunday Night Football, performing the show's theme song. The band performed a New Orleans style Jazz funeral for the late

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football results the New York Giants. In the 2006 season, there was no game played on the first Sunday night which overlapped with the World Series (October 22 in the 2006 season), along with Christmas Eve night; NBC broadcast that week's game (Eagles at Cowboys) on Christmas afternoon instead. However, the broadcast of "Football Night in America" continued at its regular time on both occasions each Sunday, with a half-hour version of the program airing before the Christmas game and the two "Wild Card Saturday" games. In 2007, there was no game broadcast on NBC for Sunday, October 28 due to Game

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football the Green Bay Packers and the Cowboys (which was watched by 31.5 million viewers). For the 2013 season, "Sunday Night Football" averaged 21.9 million viewers (for 15 broadcasts, as well as the Turkey Bowl) in 2013, up 5% versus its viewership in 2012, and an increase of 3% with a 12.9 household rating. In terms of sheer reach, this marked the highest average viewership for an NFL prime time package since 1996. Its highest rated game telecast was the Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts on October 20, 2013, which was watched by 26.9 million viewers. NBC Sunday Night Football NBC

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Madden and Andrea 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). 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." In addition, NBC has the starters for each team introduce themselves on each side of the ball (though the strict "player name/position/playing college" introductions of the past have

neg: Al Michaels NBC Sports, which had acquired the rights to "Sunday Night Football" games. Despite speculation that Michaels might be joining NBC as well, Michaels stated that he would continue as the "MNF" play-by-play announcer, stating, "I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'm home and I'm staying home." Plans were for Michaels to be teamed with Joe Theismann (who would be coming over from "Sunday Night Football") on the Monday night telecasts. At the time, then-ABC Television President Alex Wallau said, "For 26 years Al has played a pivotal role here at ABC Sports, and for 17 of those

neg: Peter King (sportswriter) in America", NBC Sports' Sunday night NFL studio show. In May 2018, King announced that he would be ending his 29-year tenure at "Sports Illustrated" to work for NBC Sports full-time. King joined the HBO show "Inside the NFL" in 2002 as a managing editor and reporter. With the return of NFL programming to NBC for the 2006 season, NBC started a studio show called "Football Night in America", set between the end of the Sunday afternoon games, and the primetime "Sunday Night Football". King joined the lineup of Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Sterling Sharpe and Jerome Bettis, serving as

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football is completed and the teams take the field. 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 the monitor at Times Square leased at the time by NBC, showed game preview footage and opening credits. Faith Hill, who replaced Pink as the theme song's performer, sang on a stage while some of the key players in the game and announcers Al Michaels and

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NBC Sunday Night Football results the earliest the NFL has ever flexed a Sunday Night Football contest. The Falcons-Saints game on Thanksgiving night will be called by the Football Night in America studio crew, with Mike Tirico doing the play-by-play and Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison as color analysts. ! Day !! Date !! Visiting Team !! Final Score !! Host Team !! Stadium <nowiki>*</nowiki>Rams–49ers game was flexed out for the Bengals-Chiefs.
 <nowiki>**</nowiki>Steelers-Jaguars game was flexed out for the Vikings-Bears game.
 <nowiki>***</nowiki>49ers-Seahawks game was flexed out for the Chargers-Steelers game.
 <nowiki>****</nowiki>Steelers-Raiders game was flexed out for the Rams-Bears game. NBC Sunday Night Football results The

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Football" is the beneficiary of the league's new flexible-scheduling system. Since the NFL now considers "Sunday Night Football" to be its featured game of the week, for the final seven weeks of the season (seven of the final eight weeks during the 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2017 seasons because of Christmas weekend), the NFL has the flexibility in selecting games that are more intriguing and typically have playoff implications to air on Sunday night. 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

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football season since 2015, that "Thursday Night Football" will not be on NBC, as it moved to fellow NFL broadcaster Fox for the next five years. Despite the loss of TNF, NBC will still broadcast the Kickoff Game and the Thanksgiving prime time games (both on a Thursday night) as they fall under the current NBC contract. Speaking of Thanksgiving, this marked the seventh year in the Sunday night package that a prime time Thanksgiving game was shown on NBC which featured the Atlanta Falcons against the New Orleans Saints. However, the studio team of Mike Tirico, Tony Dungy and Rodney

neg: NFL on NBC to switch the schedule so non-competitive games would not air in the league's marquee timeslot. Since this would require a move to Sunday night in order for this to happen, and since ABC decided to relinquish their rights to "Monday Night Football", NBC was able to bid on the "Sunday Night Football" package and won the rights after ESPN (corporate sibling to ABC and which had previously held those rights) elected to take over the "Monday Night Football" rights instead. NBC resumed airing NFL football on August 6, 2006, with coverage of the annual AFC-NFC Hall of Fame Game. NBC's

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Previously, NBC had aired American Football League (AFL), and later American Football Conference (AFC), games from 1960 until 1998, when CBS took over those rights. During the 2011–12 season, "Sunday Night Football" became the first live sports competition to hold the position as Nielsen's most-watched program on U.S. network television during the year, beating "American Idol", which held that honor for eight consecutive seasons beginning in 2004; "Sunday Night Football" repeated this feat three years running, beginning with the 2013–14 season. , Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer for the broadcasts, with Cris Collinsworth as the color commentator and

neg: National Football League 18 regular season games under its "Thursday Night Football" brand, 16 Thursday-evening contests (10 of which are simulcast on either NBC or CBS) as well as one of the NFL International Series games on a Sunday morning and one of the 2017 Christmas afternoon games. In addition, 10 of the Thursday night games will be streamed live on Amazon Prime. In 2017, the NFL games occupied the top three rates for a 30-second advertisement: $699,602 for Sunday Night Football, $550,709 for Thursday Night Football (NBC), and $549,791 for Thursday Night Football (CBS). The Super Bowl television rights are rotated on

neg: National Football League on television vast majority of the country's television product. League-owned NFL Network, on cable television, also broadcasts a selected number of games nationally. In 2017, the NFL games attracted the top three rates for a 30-second advertisement: $699,602 for NBC Sunday Night Football, $550,709 for Thursday Night Football (NBC), and $549,791 for Thursday Night Football (CBS). Under the current contracts, regionally shown games on Sunday afternoons are televised on CBS and Fox, which primarily carry games of AFC and NFC teams respectively (the conference of the road team determines the broadcaster of an inter-conference game). Nationally televised regular season games on Sunday

neg: NFL on NBC Radio 2006, the NBC television network, resumed their National Football League coverage (under the "NBC Sunday Night Football" umbrella) for the first time since losing the American Football Conference package to CBS after the 1997 season. As part of the relaunch of their coverage, NBC became a co-producer of Westwood One's radio pregame/highlight show "NFL Sunday", adding the network's name to the coverage and turning it into an abbreviated radio version of "Football Night in America". Al Trautwig hosted the show for the first several weeks of the season before being taken off the coverage for unspecified reasons. Chris Carlin subbed

neg: ESPN Sunday Night Football the entire slate of Sunday night games (now officially rebranded as "ESPN Sunday Night Football"), and had exclusive rights to any night game other than the season opener and regular Monday night games, which aired on ABC. Thus, ESPN would usually have a few weekends each season with games on both Saturday (sometimes Thursday instead) and Sunday nights. Also in 1998, Paul Maguire joined Patrick and Theismann in the booth after re-joining ESPN after several years as a color commentator for NBC. Beginning in 1999, Suzy Kolber, who had recently rejoined ESPN from Fox Sports, served as the sideline reporter;

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football also the first tie not to see a touchdown since 1972, as well as the lowest scoring tie, and the second lowest score in the prime time slot. After the addition of "Thursday Night Football" to NBC's rights holdings, the network elected to give Al Michaels time off. Mike Tirico, who left ESPN to become the heir apparent to Michaels at NBC, called select telecasts in his place. On November 14, 2016, the NFL announced that it had flexed the Chiefs-Broncos game into the Sunday night slot for Week 12, replacing the originally-scheduled New England Patriots-New York Jets game, which

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football 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 vacant, with one Sunday afternoon game being moved to the primetime slot (the schedule for the affected weeks simply read "one of these games

neg: Major League Baseball on NBC for NBC's "Sunday Night Football" telecasts) in July 2011. "The New York Times", however, reported that it was unlikely that NBC would get baseball, as the network would have to preempt up to three weeks of NFL coverage on Sunday nights. However, the NFL used to not schedule a Sunday night game on the second night of the World Series, which meant that NBC gaining the rights was not completely out of the question (however, the following Sunday, in which a possible World Series Game 7 is scheduled, a Sunday night NFL game is also scheduled). In addition to this,

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football NBC's "Sunday Night Football" was also the last of the five NFL broadcast partners to switch to a full 16:9 letterbox presentation on its 4:3 standard-definition feed, a downscaled version of the HD feed's native 16:9 format (utilizing the Active Format Description #10 flag), following Fox (2010), ESPN's "Monday Night Football" (2011), NFL Network's "Thursday Night Football" (2012) and CBS (2013). Some of the graphics were also re-positioned. On January 3, 2015, during the Wild Card playoffs, NBC Sports debuted a revamped graphics package for its NFL coverage on "Wild Card Saturday Night", which is formatted for the 16:9 letterbox

neg: NBC Nightly News anchors have included the following: The weekend editions may occasionally be abbreviated or preempted due to NBC Sports telecasts (such as golf tournaments, Notre Dame football games and Thoroughbred Racing tournaments) that overrun into the program's time slot. During NFL Season, the Sunday editions air live in every time zone at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, immediately prior to "Football Night in America" and "NBC Sunday Night Football". Bill Hanrahan handled the announcing duties for the newscast until his retirement in 1983, as he had done for the predecessor "Huntley-Brinkley Report". The next announcer for the program was long-time NBC staff

neg: 1998 NFL season won 14 regular season games since the 1992 49ers, three teams went 14–2 or better for the only time in a 16-game season. "Football Outsiders" noted: This was the first season that CBS held the rights to televise American Football Conference games, taking over the package from NBC. Meanwhile, this was the first time that ESPN broadcast all of the Sunday night games throughout the season (this was also the first season in which ESPN's coverage used the "Monday Night Football" themes, before reverting to using an original theme in 2001). The 1998 NFL Draft was held from April 17

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football lead analyst in 2009. Mike Mayock, NBC's Notre Dame color commentator until 2012, John Madden taking as color commentator in 2013. The first regular season game to be shown by NBC under this contract, between the Miami Dolphins and the Pittsburgh Steelers, aired on September 7, 2006, followed by the first Sunday-night game – between the Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants – on September 10, 2006. The actual first game of the run – the 2006 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game between the Oakland Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles – was televised on August 6, 2006. "NBC Sunday Night

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football Christmas Day game as the Broncos traveled to play the Kansas City Chiefs, a rematch of the Week 12 game in Denver that was flexed into that week's Sunday night slot. In addition, NBC carried five late season "Thursday Night Football" games in conjunction with NFL Network in a similar arrangement to the one NFLN has with CBS. As before, flexible scheduling rules went into effect in Week 5, with Week 16 excluded because the majority of the schedule was played on Christmas Eve. The final Sunday night game of the season – Sunday, January 1, 2017 – likewise was

neg: The NFL on NBC pregame show replaced by Sam Wyche. After NBC won the rights to the "Sunday Night Football" package from ESPN, effective with the 2006 season, the network launched the 80-minute pre-game Football Night in America, the only prime time pre-game show on a major broadcast network. The program was initially hosted by Bob Costas. The NFL on NBC pregame show The NBC television network's in-studio pre-game coverage for their National Football League game telecasts has had a rather inconsistent history in comparison to other pre-game shows (such as "The NFL Today" on CBS and "Fox NFL Sunday" on Fox). The following is an

neg: TNT Sunday Night Football results (1990–1997) Turner-owned Atlanta Braves). Following the 1997 season, ESPN would broadcast Sunday night NFL games for the whole season. This particular arrangement between ESPN and the National Football League would continue until the end of the 2005 season. Since that time, NBC (who last broadcast NFL games the same year that TNT last broadcast them, 1997) has been the television home of Sunday night games. Meanwhile, ESPN replaced as the broadcaster of Monday night games in 2006. The Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals were the only team to appear on TNT every year of the run, as they had their home opener (and one

neg: 2006 Kansas City Chiefs season on "NBC Sunday Night Football" at 8:15 ET (6:15 San Diego time) as part of the league's new "flex scheduling" policy. The game marked the first time the Chiefs appeared on "NBC Sunday Night Football", their first prime-time game in San Diego, and their first game to be aired on NBC since facing Denver in the AFC Divisional Playoff Game at Arrowhead on January 4, 1998. Publicity fueled the Sunday night match when Chiefs defensive end Tamba Hali claimed the Chargers were a "finesse team" eight weeks ago after Kansas City beat San Diego 30–27 at Arrowhead Stadium in week

neg: Football Night in America Football Night in America Football Night in America is an American pre-game show that is broadcast on NBC, preceding its broadcasts of Sunday night and Wild Card Saturday National Football League (NFL) games. The program debuted on September 10, 2006, when the network inaugurated its Sunday prime time game package. The 80-minute program airs live at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and is broadcast from Studio 1 at NBC Sports Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. Prior to 2012, "Football Night in America" originally broadcast from the GE Building in New York City, first out of Studio 8G from 2006 to 2012 and

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football playoffs while the loser would be eliminated. This particular matchup was for the NFC East between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium, a rematch of Week 14's Sunday night broadcast. This was the first time NBC had shown both meetings of division rivals during a regular season. The 2011 season ended with an average of 20.7 million viewers and was the highest-rated program of the 2011–12 television season, dethroning "American Idol", which was the highest-rated program for eight consecutive seasons. As a further result, "Sunday Night Football" became the first-ever television sports series of any

neg: Drew Escoff Sunday Night Football. As of 2015, Escoff has won 11 Emmy Awards. Drew Escoff Drew Escoff (born c. 1957) is an American television sports director, who as of 2006 has been the director of NBC Sunday Night Football. Escoff was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1975, later attending Colgate University. While in college he worked as a substitute teacher at Elizabeth High School where one of his students was Todd Bowles. Escoff has worked for ESPN and ABC, serving as director for Monday Night Football, SportsCenter, and the NBA Finals, as well as

neg: American Heart (song) American Heart (song) "American Heart" is a song written by Jim Beavers and Jonathan Singleton, and recorded by American country music artist Faith Hill. It was released on September 30, 2012 as the second single from her then upcoming seventh studio album. However, the album was later scrapped and Hill left her record deal. The song was announced on her Twitter account and distributed for airplay the following day. For the Twitter debut, Hill responded to questions hashtagged #askfaith prior to her weekly performance on "NBC Sunday Night Football" that night. Prior to the official release, many local radio stations

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football of the season that displaced a scheduled game took place on December 23; the San Diego Chargers at New York Jets game reverted to the afternoon, and the San Francisco 49ers played in Seattle that night. This resulted in the 49ers playing on consecutive Sunday nights, both on the road (the team played in New England the previous Sunday night, December 16). A portion of the San Francisco-New England game aired on the NBC Sports Network and CNBC due to NBC News' live coverage of Barack Obama's speech following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The final Sunday night of

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football (equivalent to soccer's English Premier League scheduling their last week's matches in the same manner), and no "Sunday Night Football" game would be played. This season also marked the year that NBC broadcast Super Bowl LII. In addition, this season featured four Super Bowl rematches on "Sunday Night Football", as well as a fifth in the Super Bowl broadcast itself. First, in Week 3, the Raiders traveled to the Nation’s Capital to face the Redskins, in a rematch of Super Bowl XVIII. Three weeks later, the Giants faced the Broncos, in a rematch of Super Bowl XXI. Then, as previously

neg: NBC Sports allowing it to be expanded for use in larger events across multiple networks (such as the Super Bowl and the Olympic Games). A refreshed design for on-air graphics was introduced on January 1, 2015 (in time for the 2015 NHL Winter Classic and NFL playoffs), with a cleaner and brighter visual appearance. NBC debuted a new graphics package specifically for "Sunday Night Football" during Super Bowl LII. NBC producer Fred Gaudell stated that the network wanted the Sunday night games to have a more distinctive presentation to set them apart from other games. NBC Sports NBC Sports is the programming

neg: 2016 NFL season issue. The Color Rush games were during the "Thursday Night Football" contests. This was the third season under broadcast contracts with ESPN, CBS, Fox, and NBC. This includes "cross-flexing" (switching) Sunday afternoon games between CBS and Fox before or during the season (regardless of the conference of the visiting team). NBC will continue to air "Sunday Night Football", the annual Kickoff game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN will continue airing "Monday Night Football" and the Pro Bowl. Fox will serve as the broadcaster of Super Bowl LI. A change to the flexible scheduling rule takes effect for the 2016

neg: 2019 NFL season broadcast contracts with ESPN, CBS, Fox and NBC. This includes "cross-flexing" (switching) Sunday afternoon games between CBS and Fox before or during the season (regardless of the conference of the visiting team). NBC will continue to air "Sunday Night Football", the annual Kickoff Game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN will continue to air "Monday Night Football" and the Pro Bowl. Fox will continue to air "Thursday Night Football" alongside with NFL Network. Fox will also broadcast Super Bowl LIV. In November 2018, ESPN announced that it would air coverage for all three days of the 2019 NFL Draft on

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football results night package, NBC aired no game in Week 17 to ensure that teams whose games would affect each other's playoff standings would be played at the same time. The Falcons-Rams NFC Wildcard game kicked off at 8:15 pm ET, while the NFC Divisional Playoff in Philadelphia kicked off at 4:35 pm ET. ! Day !! Date !! Visiting Team !! Final Score !! Host Team !! Stadium Starting in 2018, the NFL moved the start time of Sunday Night Football back, from 8:30 p.m. ET to 8:20 p.m. ET. The Bengals-Chiefs game flexed into Sunday Night on October 21 became

neg: Bootsy Collins and performed by several Bengals players, including defensive end Duane Clemons, offensive tackle Stacy Andrews, and center Ben Wilkerson. An edited version of the song was made into a music video which features cameos by many other Bengals players. Collins appeared with Little Richard, Bernie Worrell, and other notable musicians as the band playing with Hank Williams, Jr. for the "Monday Night Football" opening during for the 2006 season. Collins was the only all star to return with Williams for the 2007 season. He also sings "Marshal Law", the theme song of the Cincinnati Marshals indoor football team and debuted

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football against the Houston Texans on Christmas Day. NBC/NFL Network simulcasts started in Week 10 with the Seattle Seahawks taking on the Arizona Cardinals. The NBC Sports-produced Thursday night games on NFL Network began in Week 2, with the Texans battling the Cincinnati Bengals. Week 17 on December 31 had a full Sunday schedule of games, with the Sunday night game slot originally left blank as has been done the previous nine seasons. After all of the Week 16 Sunday games were played, the NFL determined that many of the teams with playoff implications would have been affected by the results

neg: Thursday Night Football the New York Giants, was brought in to replace him. Collinsworth stayed on until the end of the 2008 season, then left to take over for the retiring John Madden as lead analyst on "NBC Sunday Night Football". NFL Network replaced him with Matt Millen, who returned to broadcasting in 2009, and then added former ESPN analyst Joe Theismann for 2010. For 2011, then ESPN now CBS play-by-play man Brad Nessler took over the Thursday night broadcast. He was joined by NFL Network draft analyst and NBC Notre Dame color man Mike Mayock, and the pairing spent three seasons calling

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football World Series game. Sunday night games between November 13 and December 18 (inclusive) were "flex games", which could have reverted to Sunday afternoon if a more competitive matchup arose (one was; see below). The final Sunday night of the season – January 1, 2012 – was likewise a "flex game"; the slot, vacant when the schedule was released, was filled by the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants (see below). 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

neg: KABC-TV Football games from that year onward while other games are split between four other television stations: KCBS-TV through the "NFL on CBS" and its preseason Rams telecasts, including the network's Thursday night games (2016-2017); KNBC through NBC Sunday Night Football and NBC-produced Thursday night games (2016-2017); KTLA through games telecast exclusively by NFL Network; and KTTV through "Fox NFL Sunday" and Fox-produced Thursday night games (2018-present). The station also produces and broadcasts Rams' team shows on Saturday nights during the regular season, with comedian Jay Mohr serving as host. The same broadcast schedule applies for the Los Angeles Chargers, after

neg: National Football League telecasts, mostly in prime time, that are carried nationwide. NBC broadcasts the primetime "Sunday Night Football" package', which includes the Thursday NFL Kickoff game that starts the regular season and a primetime Thanksgiving Day game. ESPN carries all Monday Night Football games. The NFL's own network, NFL Network, broadcasts a series titled "Thursday Night Football", which was originally exclusive to the network, but which in recent years has had several games simulcast on CBS (since 2014) and NBC (since 2016) (except the Thanksgiving and kickoff games, which remain exclusive to NBC). For the 2017 season, the NFL Network will broadcast

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football divisional playoff game with the Chiefs at home against the Steelers in the afternoon; on January 13, the NFL announced that game would move to primetime on NBC the same day due to an ice storm affecting the Kansas City area which would cause perilous travel for fans if the game went on as regularly scheduled, and thus becoming an unexpected bonus "Sunday Night Football" broadcast in its regular timeslot. NBC filled the vacated afternoon timeslot with a NHL game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Washington Capitals. The 2017 NFL schedule was released on April 20. NBC's first telecast of

neg: Pro Football Hall of Fame Game Monday night. Starting in 2006, it was moved to Sunday night, coinciding with the new "NBC Sunday Night Football" television package. The 2007 game was telecast on NFL Network, as NBC was intending to televise the China Bowl game in Beijing, China (a game which was postponed to 2009 and later canceled). The Hall of Fame Game has since bounced between both networks. The 2012 game aired on NFL Network due to NBC's coverage of the Summer Olympics. After a two-year absence, the game returned to NBC in 2013 and remained on the network until 2015. The 2016 game was

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football kind to finish a television season as the most-watched show. The 2012 schedule, released on April 17, once again placed a Sunday night game (New Orleans Saints at Denver Broncos) against a World Series game. This was the third straight year a World Series game competed against a Sunday night game. During the halftime of that game, NBC News aired a brief special report regarding Superstorm Sandy, anchored by Brian Williams. Sunday night games between November 18 and December 23 (inclusive) were "flex games"; they would revert to Sunday afternoon if a more competitive matchup arose. The only flexed game

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football on a Tuesday, but the first since . 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. For the Week 17 matchup, NBC featured

neg: Los Angeles Rams decides in mid-season to "cross-flex" between Fox and CBS). KNBC airs "NBC Sunday Night Football" and some selected Thursday night games produced by NBC. As for games that air on ESPN's "Monday Night Football", KABC simulcasts these cable games carries those games as the two channels share common ownership. The league's blackout policy is not currently in effect, meaning that besides road games, all Rams home games are televised in the Los Angeles market, regardless of attendance. If the Chargers and Rams are both playing at the same time on Sunday afternoons on a certain network (for instance, a Rams

neg: 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2 wins each). The ceremony was held on a night other than Sunday for the first time since 1976 (the 28th Primetime Emmy Awards were also staged on a Monday that year, May 17). The ceremony's unusual date — a Monday night in late August — was due to two factors, primary being NBC's commitment to "Sunday Night Football"; since acquiring the National Football League's Sunday night game package in 2006, NBC, when it is their turn in the four-network rotation to air the Primetime Emmy Awards, usually schedules the ceremony for the Sunday before Labor Day weekend, to avoid

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football 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 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. There were a few significant changes from the previous year, including Faith Hill (who herself returned for her fifth year as part of the telecast's opening) arriving in a

neg: Drew Escoff Drew Escoff Drew Escoff (born c. 1957) is an American television sports director, who as of 2006 has been the director of NBC Sunday Night Football. Escoff was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1975, later attending Colgate University. While in college he worked as a substitute teacher at Elizabeth High School where one of his students was Todd Bowles. Escoff has worked for ESPN and ABC, serving as director for Monday Night Football, SportsCenter, and the NBA Finals, as well as five Super Bowls. Since 2006, he has served as director for NBC

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football schedule was released on April 23, it placed a Sunday night game (Green Bay Packers at New Orleans Saints) against a World Series game for the fifth straight year. Starting with this season, NBC was permitted to begin flexing games as soon as Week 5, with the restriction that no more than two games may be flexed between Weeks 5 and 10. The final Sunday night of the season – December 28, 2014 – likewise was a flex game; the slot was left vacant when the schedule was released, as been the practice of the past six seasons. The game's

neg: Mary Margaret O'Hara One's "Q" on October 28 — and performing an impromptu duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with host Jian Ghomeshi. O'Hara sings the theme song for Someone Knows Something, a true-crime podcast from the CBC. The song was written by Bob Wiseman. On Sunday, November 12, 2017 O'Hara performed a rare live show at Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands. O'Hara was invited by artist Perfume Genius who curated a program for the festival. O'Hara sang backup vocals for Morrissey on his song, "November Spawned a Monster". She also contributed to four albums by Bob Wiseman: "In Her

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football win would have put them in the playoffs, while the Bengals had the potential to improve their seeding for the playoffs with a victory. The Jets-Bengals game ended up being the last game played at Giants Stadium (the Jets could have hosted the AFC Championship game, but the Baltimore Ravens did not hold up their end of the deal). The 2010 schedule, released on 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

neg: NBC Sunday Night Movie and installments of miniseries, some were specials and sports events. Similar to "The NBC Monday Movie". NBC Sunday Night Movie The NBC Sunday Night Movie was a weekly film block which ran on NBC on Sunday nights from 9-11pm or 8:30pm until 11pm. This was NBC's counterprogramming to the "CBS Sunday Movie". The last film to air was "Friday Night Lights" with 2.6 million viewers. During the mid-1980s the "Sunday Night Movie" was aired consistently enough to be ranked in the top 30 highest rated programs for 1985-1988. Between 1976 and 1981, the "Sunday Night Movie" was replaced by an

neg: Faith Hill June 2006 and ran through to August 2007. The song "I Need You" was nominated for both the "Best Country Collaboration with Vocals" and "Best Country Song" awards at the 2008 Grammy Awards. At the beginning of the 2007 NFL season, Hill replaced P!nk (siner) as the signature voice of "NFL on NBC's Sunday Night Football", singing the weekly game's introductory theme song; of which the show's producer said: Hill performed this opening theme until April 15, 2013. In September 2008, Hill issued her first Christmas album, titled "Joy to the World". The compilation was given positive reviews, including "about.com",

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football results game was flexed out for the Panthers-Saints game. <br> <nowiki>***</nowiki>Patriots-Ravens game was flexed out for the Bears-Eagles game. Starting in the 2014 season, NBC was allowed to flex games beginning in week 5. All the previous flexible scheduling rules apply, but on a limited basis. Only two games between weeks 5-10 can be flexed per season; weeks 11-17 (excluding Thanksgiving Night) flex rules are still the same as in previous years. However, despite these changes, NBC did not flex a single one of their originally scheduled games, which marked the first season that none of the originally scheduled Sunday night

neg: XFL hospitalized, no other major injuries were reported. The blimp needed $2.5 million in repairs, the sailboat and restaurant had only minor damages. Before the season started, a fictional XFL game appeared in the 2000 film "The 6th Day", set in 2015. NBC continued airing professional league football beyond the demise of the XFL, starting with the Arena Football League television coverage from 2003 to 2006. In 2006, NBC returned to coverage of NFL games with "NBC Sunday Night Football", eventually adding "Thursday Night Football" to its coverage in 2016. McMahon and Ebersol later took credit for the more intimate approach

neg: NBC Weather Plus addition, Weather Plus was promoted during NBC's NFL pre-game show "Football Night in America", and was used to provide the temperature and weather conditions at gametime for each week's "NBC Sunday Night Football" game during the NFL season. During significant national weather events (such as a major winter storm), Weather Plus meteorologists conducted live reports for "NBC Nightly News" to provide analysis (all of these services are now provided by The Weather Channel). NBC Weather Plus was unveiled at the NBC affiliate meeting in 2004. The network debuted on November 15, 2004, with NBC's New York City owned-and-operated station WNBC

neg: National Football League on television would be at home on any given Sunday. During Week 17, both networks may air doubleheaders. Games assigned for local markets may involve playoff implications for the local team. National broadcasts of marquee matches occur on Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights. NBC has broadcast rights to Sunday night games. These are televised under a special "flexible schedule" that allows Sunday afternoon games to be moved to prime-time beginning with Week 5 of the season. NBC also has broadcast rights to the opening night kickoff game. Other regular season nationally televised games include those on Thanksgiving. Until the cross-flexing regulations, afternoon

neg: NBC Sunday Night Football noted for its extensive use of the Skycam for game coverage after fog made it impossible to use other cameras. It also placed a Sunday night game (Pittsburgh Steelers at Detroit Lions) against a World Series game for the eighth straight year. Both the Lions and Steelers have MLB teams in their respective hometowns, but both struggled to get into the playoffs, especially the Pirates, who missed the playoffs for the second year in a row, and the Tigers, who haven’t been to the playoffs since winning the AL Central in 2014. The Thanksgiving night game featured the New York