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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_on_television" class="mw-redirect" title="National Football League on television">National Football League on television</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_National_Football_League_on_television" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the National Football League on television">History of the National Football League on television</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Pro_Bowl_broadcasters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of Pro Bowl broadcasters (page does not exist)">List of Pro Bowl broadcasters</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_AFC_Championship_Game_broadcasters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of AFC Championship Game broadcasters (page does not exist)">List of AFC Championship Game broadcasters</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_NFC_Championship_Game_broadcasters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of NFC Championship Game broadcasters (page does not exist)">List of NFC Championship Game broadcasters</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_broadcasters" title="List of Super Bowl broadcasters">List of Super Bowl broadcasters</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_Monday_Night_Football" title="History of Monday Night Football">History of Monday Night Football</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Monday_Night_Football_results_(1970%E2%80%931989)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Monday Night Football results (1970–1989)">List of Monday Night Football results (1970–1989)</a></div> <p>During the early 1960s, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_NFL_Commissioner" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the NFL Commissioner">NFL Commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Pete_Rozelle" title="Pete Rozelle">Pete Rozelle</a> envisioned the possibility of playing at least one game weekly during <a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">prime time</a> that could be viewed by a greater television audience (while the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL</a> had scheduled Saturday night games on the <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_DuMont" title="NFL on DuMont">DuMont Television Network</a> in <a href="/wiki/1953_NFL_season" title="1953 NFL season">1953</a> and <a href="/wiki/1954_NFL_season" title="1954 NFL season">1954</a>, poor ratings and the dissolution of DuMont led to those games being eliminated by the time <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_CBS" title="NFL on CBS">CBS</a> took over the rights in <a href="/wiki/1956_NFL_season" title="1956 NFL season">1956</a>). An early bid by the league in <a href="/wiki/1964_NFL_season" title="1964 NFL season">1964</a> to play on Friday nights was soundly defeated, with critics charging that such telecasts would damage the attendance at <a href="/wiki/High_school_football" title="High school football">high school football</a> games. Undaunted, Rozelle decided to experiment with the concept of playing on Monday night, scheduling the <a href="/wiki/1964_Green_Bay_Packers_season" title="1964 Green Bay Packers season">Green Bay Packers</a> and <a href="/wiki/1964_Detroit_Lions_season" title="1964 Detroit Lions season">Detroit Lions</a> for a game on September 28, <a href="/wiki/1964_NFL_season" title="1964 NFL season">1964</a>. While the game was not televised, it drew a sellout crowd of 59,203 spectators to <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)" title="Tiger Stadium (Detroit)">Tiger Stadium</a>, the largest crowd ever to watch a professional football game in <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a> up to that point. </p><p>Two years later, Rozelle would build on this success as the NFL began a four-year experiment of playing on Monday night, scheduling one game in prime time on CBS during the <a href="/wiki/1966_NFL_season" title="1966 NFL season">1966</a> and <a href="/wiki/1967_NFL_season" title="1967 NFL season">1967</a> seasons, and two contests during each of the next two years. <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">NBC</a> followed suit in <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League_seasons#1968" class="mw-redirect" title="American Football League seasons">1968</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League_seasons#1969" class="mw-redirect" title="American Football League seasons">1969</a> with games involving <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a> teams. </p><p>During subsequent negotiations on a new television contract that would begin in <a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_season" title="1970 NFL season">1970</a> (coinciding with a <a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">merger</a> between the NFL and AFL), Rozelle concentrated on signing a weekly Monday night deal with one of the three major networks. After sensing reluctance from both NBC and CBS in disturbing their regular programming schedules, Rozelle spoke with <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>. </p><p>Despite the network's status at the time as the lowest-<a href="/wiki/Nielsen_ratings" class="mw-redirect" title="Nielsen ratings">rated</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Big_Three_television_networks" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Three television networks">three major broadcast networks</a>, ABC was also reluctant to enter the risky venture. It was only after Rozelle used the threat of signing a deal with the independent <a href="/wiki/Hughes_Sports_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Hughes Sports Network">Hughes Sports Network</a>, an entity bankrolled by reclusive businessman <a href="/wiki/Howard_Hughes" title="Howard Hughes">Howard Hughes</a>, did ABC sign a contract for the scheduled games. Speculation was that had Rozelle signed with Hughes, many ABC affiliates would have pre-empted the network's Monday lineup in favor of the games, severely damaging potential ratings. </p><p>After the final contract for <i>Monday Night Football</i> was signed, <a href="/wiki/ESPN_on_ABC" title="ESPN on ABC">ABC Sports</a> producer <a href="/wiki/Roone_Arledge" title="Roone Arledge">Roone Arledge</a> immediately saw possibilities for the new program. Setting out to create an entertainment "spectacle" as much as a simple sports broadcast, Arledge hired <a href="/wiki/Chet_Forte" title="Chet Forte">Chet Forte</a>, who would serve as director of the program for over 22 years. Arledge also ordered twice the usual number of cameras to cover the game, expanded the regular two-man broadcasting booth to three, and used extensive graphic design within the show as well as <a href="/wiki/Instant_replay" title="Instant replay">instant replay</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Year-by-year_breakdown">Year-by-year breakdown</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Year-by-year breakdown"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970"><a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_season" title="1970 NFL season">1970</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1970"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Super Bowl IV was broadcast in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> by <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> with <a href="/wiki/Play-by-play" class="mw-redirect" title="Play-by-play">play-by-play announcer</a> <a href="/wiki/Jack_Buck" title="Jack Buck">Jack Buck</a> and <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentator</a> <a href="/wiki/Pat_Summerall" title="Pat Summerall">Pat Summerall</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Frank_Gifford" title="Frank Gifford">Frank Gifford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Whitaker" title="Jack Whitaker">Jack Whitaker</a> reporting from the winning and losing locker rooms, respectively. While the game was sold out at Tulane Stadium, the NFL's unconditional <a href="/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)" title="Blackout (broadcasting)">blackout</a> rules in place then prohibited the live telecast from being shown <a href="/wiki/WWL-TV" title="WWL-TV">in the New Orleans area</a>. </p><p>CBS <a href="/wiki/Lost_television_broadcast#Wiping" title="Lost television broadcast">erased</a> the videotape a few days after the game; the same thing they did with Super Bowls <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_I" title="Super Bowl I">I</a> and <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_II" title="Super Bowl II">II</a>, which they broadcast. Videotape was expensive then and networks did not believe old games were worth saving. The only reason this game exists is because the <a href="/wiki/CBC_Television" title="CBC Television">CBC</a> and the <a href="/wiki/French_language_in_Canada" title="French language in Canada">French</a> version on <a href="/wiki/Ici_Radio-Canada_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9" title="Ici Radio-Canada Télé">Radio-Canada</a> in Canada and in Québec carried the broadcast and because the Vikings were located so close to Canada and had a lot of Canadian and Québec fans (and Bud Grant was a legendary player and coach in the CFL), the CBC decided to save it for their archives. As previously mentioned, as videotape was too expensive in those days to save, they transferred the footage to black & white film (<a href="/wiki/Kinescope" title="Kinescope">kinescope</a>). This therefore, enabled them to reuse the videotape. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_season" title="1970 NFL season">1970</a>, after the NFL and AFL completed their merger, NBC signed a contract with the league to broadcast games from the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">American Football Conference</a> (AFC). Curt Gowdy, who had covered the first five seasons of the American Football League with broadcast partner Paul Christman on ABC, moved over to NBC in the fall of 1965. For the next decade, Gowdy was the lead play-by-play announcer for the network for both AFL football (AFC from 1970 onward) and <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC" title="Major League Baseball on NBC">Major League Baseball</a> games; however, Gowdy also covered a wide range of sports, earning him the nickname of the "broadcaster of everything." Besides Paul Christman, Curt Gowdy's other football broadcast partners were Kyle Rote, Al DeRogatis, <a href="/wiki/Don_Meredith" title="Don Meredith">Don Meredith</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Brodie" title="John Brodie">John Brodie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Merlin_Olsen" title="Merlin Olsen">Merlin Olsen</a>. </p><p>Looking for a lightning rod to garner attention, Arledge hired controversial New York City sportscaster <a href="/wiki/Howard_Cosell" title="Howard Cosell">Howard Cosell</a> as a commentator, along with veteran football play-by-play announcer <a href="/wiki/Keith_Jackson" title="Keith Jackson">Keith Jackson</a>. Arledge had tried to lure <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Vin_Scully" title="Vin Scully">Vin Scully</a> to ABC for the <i>MNF</i> play-by-play role, but settled for Jackson after they proved unable to break their respective existing contracts with <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC Sports</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>. <a href="/wiki/Jack_Buck" title="Jack Buck">Jack Buck</a> was also considered, but when Arledge assistant <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Howard" title="Chuck Howard">Chuck Howard</a> telephoned Buck with the job offer, Buck refused to respond due to anger at his treatment by ABC during an earlier stint with the network.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arledge's original choice for the third member of the trio, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Gifford" title="Frank Gifford">Frank Gifford</a>, was unavailable since he was still under contract to <a href="/wiki/CBS_Sports" title="CBS Sports">CBS Sports</a>. However, Gifford suggested former <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> <a href="/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">quarterback</a> <a href="/wiki/Don_Meredith" title="Don Meredith">Don Meredith</a>, setting the stage for years of fireworks between the often-pompous Cosell and the laid-back Meredith and sometimes, the good-looking Gifford. </p><p>On September 20, 1970, <i>The NFL Today</i> signed industry-pioneering women: <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Margolies" title="Marjorie Margolies">Marjorie Margolies</a> (who years later won election to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House</a> from <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> in <a href="/wiki/U.S._House_Elections,_1992" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Elections, 1992">1992</a> as Marjorie Margolies-Mezsvinsky), who produced and reported features and actress Carole Howey, who also reported for the program. </p><p><i>Monday Night Football</i> first aired on ABC on September 21, 1970, with a game between the <a href="/wiki/1970_New_York_Jets_season" title="1970 New York Jets season">New York Jets</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1970_Cleveland_Browns_season" title="1970 Cleveland Browns season">Browns</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cleveland,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland, Ohio">Cleveland</a>. Advertisers were charged US$65,000 per minute by ABC during the clash, a cost that proved to be a bargain when the contest collected 33% of the viewing audience. The Browns defeated the Jets, 31-21 in a game which featured a 94-yard kickoff return for a <a href="/wiki/Touchdown" title="Touchdown">touchdown</a> by the Browns' <a href="/wiki/Homer_Jones_(American_football)" title="Homer Jones (American football)">Homer Jones</a> and was punctuated when <a href="/wiki/Billy_Andrews" title="Billy Andrews">Billy Andrews</a> intercepted <a href="/wiki/Joe_Namath" title="Joe Namath">Joe Namath</a> late in the fourth quarter and returned it 25 yards for the clinching touchdown. However, Cleveland viewers saw different programming on <a href="/wiki/WEWS-TV" title="WEWS-TV">WEWS-TV</a>, because of the NFL's <a href="/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)" title="Blackout (broadcasting)">blackout</a> rules of the time (this would apply for all games through the end of the <a href="/wiki/1972_NFL_season" title="1972 NFL season">1972 season</a>; beginning in 1973, home games could be televised if tickets were sold out 72 hours before kickoff). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1971"><a href="/wiki/1971_NFL_season" title="1971 NFL season">1971</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1971"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 17, 1971, NBC's telecast of <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_V" title="Super Bowl V">Super Bowl V</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1970_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1970 Baltimore Colts season">Baltimore Colts</a> and <a href="/wiki/1970_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1970 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas Cowboys</a> was viewed in an estimated 23,980,000 homes, the largest household audience ever for a one-day sports event. The game was called by play-by-play announcer Curt Gowdy and color commentator Kyle Rote. Although the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Bowl" title="Orange Bowl">Orange Bowl</a> was sold out for the event, unconditional blackout rules in the NFL prohibited the live telecast from being shown in the <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a> area on <a href="/wiki/WSVN" title="WSVN">WSVN</a>. The blackout was challenged in Miami-Dade District Court by attorney <a href="/wiki/Ellis_Rubin" title="Ellis Rubin">Ellis Rubin</a>, and although the judge denied Rubin's request since he felt he did not have the power to overrule the NFL, he agreed with Rubin's argument that the blackout rule was unnecessary for the Super Bowl.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The game was also the first Super Bowl to be carried live in the state of <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>; thanks to NBC's then-parent company <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA</a> acquiring the <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Communications_System" title="Alaska Communications System">Alaska Communications System</a> from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The complete original broadcast, up until <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Howley" title="Chuck Howley">Chuck Howley</a>'s second interception, the first play of the fourth quarter exists, however the rest of the fourth quarter is missing from network vaults. Broadcast excerpts of the crucial fourth-quarter plays, recovered from the Canadian feed of NBC's original, do exist and circulate among collectors. (Two different NFL Films game compilations also cover the fourth quarter plays, in part.) </p><p>By 1971, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) introduced the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Time_Access_Rule" title="Prime Time Access Rule">Prime Time Access Rule</a>, which freed local network affiliates in the top 50 markets (in practice, the entire network) to take a half-hour of prime time from the networks on Mondays through Saturdays and one full hour on Sundays. Because nearly all affiliates found production costs for the FCC's intended goal of increased <a href="/wiki/Public_affairs_(broadcasting)" title="Public affairs (broadcasting)">public affairs</a> programming very high and the ratings (and by association, advertising revenues) low, making it mostly unprofitable, the FCC created an exception for network-authored news and public affairs. After a six-month hiatus in late 1971, CBS would find a prime place for <i><a href="/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes">60 Minutes</a></i> in a portion of that displaced time, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern</a>; 5:00 to 6:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">Central Time</a>) on Sundays, in January 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-Madsen_15_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Madsen_15-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This proved somewhat less than satisfactory, however, because in order to accommodate CBS' telecasts of late afternoon National Football League games, <i>60 Minutes</i> went on hiatus during the fall from 1972 to 1975 (and the summer of 1972). This took place because football telecasts were protected contractually from interruptions in the wake of the infamous "Heidi Game" incident on NBC in November 1968. </p><p>Due largely to CBS' live broadcast of NFL games, as well as other sports events aired by the network that run past their scheduled end time, <i>60 Minutes</i> sometimes does not start until after 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, with the program starting right after the conclusion of game coverage (however, on the West Coast, because the actual end of the live games is much earlier in the afternoon in comparison to the Eastern and Central Time Zones, <i>60 Minutes</i> is always able to start at its normal 7:00 p.m. Pacific start time, leaving affiliates free to broadcast local newscasts, the <i><a href="/wiki/CBS_Evening_News" title="CBS Evening News">CBS Evening News</a></i>, and other local or syndicated programming leading up to <i>60 Minutes</i>). The program's success has also led CBS Sports to schedule events leading into <i>60 Minutes</i> and the rest of the network's primetime lineup, causing (again, except on the West Coast) the pre-emptions of the Sunday editions of the <i>CBS Evening News</i> and affiliates' local newscasts. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1971_NFL_season" title="1971 NFL season">1971</a>, Frank Gifford became available after his contract with CBS Sports concluded; Arledge brought him to ABC to serve as play-by-play announcer, replacing Jackson (who returned to broadcasting <a href="/wiki/College_American_football" class="mw-redirect" title="College American football">college football</a> for the network, which he continued to do for the next 35 seasons). The former <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giant</a> had been an NFL analyst for CBS during the 1960s but had never called play-by-play prior to joining <i>Monday Night Football</i>. In that capacity for <i>Monday Night Football</i> from 1971 to <a href="/wiki/1985_NFL_season" title="1985 NFL season">1985</a>, Gifford was often criticized for his see-no-evil approach in regard to discussing the NFL, earning him the dubious nickname "Faultless Frank." Regardless, Gifford would have the longest tenure of any broadcaster on the show, lasting until <a href="/wiki/1998_NFL_season" title="1998 NFL season">1998</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jack_Whitaker_(sportscaster)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Whitaker (sportscaster)">Jack Whitaker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pat_Summerall" title="Pat Summerall">Pat Summerall</a> took over hosting duties on <i>The NFL Today</i> from Gifford. </p><p>Howard Cosell's abrasive personality gave him enough recognition to host a live <a href="/wiki/Variety_show" title="Variety show">variety show</a> on ABC in the fall of 1975. That show is remembered today only as a trivia question, as its title, <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_with_Howard_Cosell" title="Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell">Saturday Night Live</a></i>, prevented <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">a new late-night sketch comedy program on NBC</a> from using that title until the ABC show was canceled. That seeming popularity was in contrast to the repeated criticisms in the media, as well as bar room contests in which winners were allowed to throw a brick through a television image of Cosell. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1972"><a href="/wiki/1972_NFL_season" title="1972 NFL season">1972</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1972"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 16, 1972, the <a href="/wiki/1971_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1971 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas Cowboys</a> defeated the <a href="/wiki/1971_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="1971 Miami Dolphins season">Miami Dolphins</a> 24–3 in <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_VI" title="Super Bowl VI">Super Bowl VI</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>. The CBS telecast had an estimated household viewership of 27,450,000 homes, the highest-rated single-day telecast ever at the time. Although <a href="/wiki/Tulane_Stadium" title="Tulane Stadium">Tulane Stadium</a> was sold out for the game, unconditional <a href="/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)" title="Blackout (broadcasting)">blackout</a> rules in the NFL prohibited the live telecast from being shown in the New Orleans market. This would be the last Super Bowl to be blacked out in the television market in which the game was played. The following year, the NFL allowed <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_VII" title="Super Bowl VII">Super Bowl VII</a> to be televised live in the host city (Los Angeles) when all tickets were sold. In 1973, the NFL changed its blackout policy to allow games to be broadcast in the home team's market if tickets are sold out 72 hours in advance (all Super Bowls since the second have sold out, as it is the main event on the NFL schedule, and there is high demand for Super Bowl tickets). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1973"><a href="/wiki/1973_NFL_season" title="1973 NFL season">1973</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1973"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 14, 1973, NBC's telecast of <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_VII" title="Super Bowl VII">Super Bowl VII</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1972_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="1972 Miami Dolphins season">Miami Dolphins</a> and <a href="/wiki/1972_Washington_Redskins_season" title="1972 Washington Redskins season">Washington Redskins</a> was watched by approximately 75 million viewers. The game, called by Curt Gowdy and Al DeRogatis, was the first Super Bowl to be televised live in the city where it was being played. Despite the league's unconditional blackout rules that normally would have prohibited the live telecast from being shown locally, the NFL allowed the game to be telecast in the Los Angeles area on <a href="/wiki/KNBC" title="KNBC">KNBC</a> on an experimental basis when all tickets for the game were sold. The league then changed its blackout rules the following season to allow games sold out at least 72 hours in advance to be televised in the host market. No subsequent Super Bowl has ever been blacked out in the city it has been played in, since all of them have been sold out. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1973_NFL_season" title="1973 NFL season">1973</a>, <i>The NFL Today</i> began originating from CBS' <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> studios; the program also began to include reports from stadiums around the country; however, it continued to be pre-recorded before each week's game day. </p><p>After beginning with critical acclaim, Don Meredith began to take his weekly assignments less seriously, while also beginning an acting career. By <a href="/wiki/1973_NFL_season" title="1973 NFL season">1973</a>, his behavior on the broadcasts seemed highly suspect, given incidents during a trio of contests. On October 29, Meredith was drinking during the <a href="/wiki/1973_Buffalo_Bills_season" title="1973 Buffalo Bills season">Buffalo Bills</a>–<a href="/wiki/1973_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="1973 Kansas City Chiefs season">Kansas City Chiefs</a> game, which was preceded one week earlier by his pre-game analysis of the <a href="/wiki/1973_Denver_Broncos_season" title="1973 Denver Broncos season">Denver Broncos</a>–<a href="/wiki/1973_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1973 Oakland Raiders season">Oakland Raiders</a> game: "We're in the <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Mile High City</a> and I sure am" – a not-so-subtle reference to his use of <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">marijuana</a> at the time. Finally, during the <a href="/wiki/1973_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a>–<a href="/wiki/1973_Washington_Redskins_season" title="1973 Washington Redskins season">Washington Redskins</a> game on November 5, he referred to U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> as "Tricky Dick". </p><p>On November 4, <a href="/wiki/1973_NFL_season" title="1973 NFL season">1973</a>, local San Francisco CBS affiliate <a href="/wiki/KPIX-TV" title="KPIX-TV">KPIX</a> (now an owned-and-operated station of the network) experimented with a "simulcast" in which the station kept switching back and forth between the network's broadcasts of a <a href="/wiki/1973_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="1973 San Francisco 49ers season">San Francisco 49ers</a> game (against the <a href="/wiki/1973_Detroit_Lions_season" title="1973 Detroit Lions season">Detroit Lions</a>) and an <a href="/wiki/1973_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1973 Oakland Raiders season">Oakland Raiders</a> game (against the <a href="/wiki/1973_New_York_Giants_season" title="1973 New York Giants season">New York Giants</a>) that were being played at the same time, with frequent cuts to studio host <a href="/wiki/Barry_Tompkins" title="Barry Tompkins">Barry Tompkins</a>. The station received many complaints from viewers, however, and the experiment was not repeated. This resulted in the NFL instituting new rules for markets that had two teams, which basically state that teams televised in two markets must play their games at different times in the day or week, or one of the teams must be on the road, or the teams' games must be on different networks. (For example, an NFL schedule for a given week in markets with two team franchises might look like this: <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Raiders" title="Oakland Raiders">Oakland</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Kansas City</a>, 1:00 p.m.; <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a> at <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia</a>, 1:00 p.m.; <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers" title="San Diego Chargers">San Diego</a> at <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers" title="San Francisco 49ers">San Francisco</a>, 4:15 p.m.; and <a href="/wiki/New_England_Patriots" title="New England Patriots">New England</a> at <a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a>, 8:00 p.m.) </p><p>On December 16, <a href="/wiki/1973_NFL_season" title="1973 NFL season">1973</a>, NBC cameras were there to cover <a href="/wiki/O._J._Simpson" title="O. J. Simpson">O. J. Simpson</a> as he rushed for 2,000 yards in one season. On that particular day, Simpson's <a href="/wiki/1973_Buffalo_Bills_season" title="1973 Buffalo Bills season">Buffalo Bills</a> would go on to beat the <a href="/wiki/1973_New_York_Jets_season" title="1973 New York Jets season">New York Jets</a> at <a href="/wiki/Shea_Stadium" title="Shea Stadium">Shea Stadium</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1974"><a href="/wiki/1974_NFL_season" title="1974 NFL season">1974</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1974"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Super Bowl VIII was televised in the United States by <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_CBS" title="NFL on CBS">CBS</a> with <a href="/wiki/Play-by-play" class="mw-redirect" title="Play-by-play">play-by-play announcer</a> <a href="/wiki/Ray_Scott_(sportscaster)" title="Ray Scott (sportscaster)">Ray Scott</a> and <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentators</a> <a href="/wiki/Pat_Summerall" title="Pat Summerall">Pat Summerall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bart_Starr" title="Bart Starr">Bart Starr</a>. This was Scott's final telecast for CBS. Midway through the following season Summerall would take Scott's place as the network's lead play-by-play announcer, holding that position through <a href="/wiki/1993_NFL_season" title="1993 NFL season">1993</a>, when CBS lost rights to the NFC television package to <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Fox" title="NFL on Fox">Fox</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1974_NFL_season" title="1974 NFL season">1974</a>, CBS abandoned the pre-recorded <i>NFL Today</i> broadcast and its short-form wrap-up show, <i><b>Pro Football Report</b></i>, for a live, wraparound style program titled <i><b>The NFL on CBS</b></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It started a half-hour prior to kickoff of either the singleheader or doubleheader telecast (12:30, 1:30 or 3:30 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time</a>). On September 15, 1974, the revamped program debuted with a new three-segment format: the first segment featured highlights of the day's games and commentary, special features shot during the week were broadcast during the second segment, and the third segment covered the day's sports news, including scores and highlights at halftime. The program's hosts were Jack Whitaker (who was brought into the studio after quite a few years serving as a play-by-play announcer for the network's NFL broadcasts) and <a href="/wiki/Lee_Leonard" title="Lee Leonard">Lee Leonard</a>. </p><p>The program broke ground in a number of ways: it was the first live pre-game show, the first to show halftime highlights of other games televised by CBS, and the first to wrap-up as a post-game show. CBS also began referring to its stadium studios or its pre-game set, previously known as "CBS Control," as the "CBS Sports Center". The program also no longer featured a third member of the on-air crew stationed at CBS Control to provide scores, halftime information and – time permitting – post-game interviews, a position often held by <a href="/wiki/Dick_Stockton" title="Dick Stockton">Dick Stockton</a> during his early days at the network. </p><p>Don Meredith would be absent from <i>Monday Night Football</i> for a broadcasting and acting career on rival <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">NBC</a> from <a href="/wiki/1974_NFL_season" title="1974 NFL season">1974</a> to <a href="/wiki/1976_NFL_season" title="1976 NFL season">1976</a>. <a href="/wiki/Fred_Williamson" title="Fred Williamson">Fred Williamson</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Kansas City Chiefs</a> defensive back nicknamed "The Hammer" for his often-brutal hits, was selected by ABC to replace Meredith in 1974, but following a few pre-season broadcasts, proved so inarticulate that he was relieved of his duties prior to the start of the regular season, becoming the first <i>MNF</i> personality not to last an entire season (much less no part of the regular season at all). Williamson was replaced by fellow <a href="/wiki/Gary,_Indiana" title="Gary, Indiana">Gary, Indiana</a> native <a href="/wiki/Alex_Karras" title="Alex Karras">Alex Karras</a>, formerly of the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Lions" title="Detroit Lions">Detroit Lions</a>. The highlight of Williamson's <i>MNF</i> career was probably at the introductory press conference where he quipped that he was hired to "bring some color to the booth." </p><p>Karras made his debut on September 16, 1974 and immediately made an impact when he jokingly referred to <a href="/wiki/1974_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1974 Oakland Raiders season">Oakland Raiders</a>' defensive lineman <a href="/wiki/Otis_Sistrunk" title="Otis Sistrunk">Otis Sistrunk</a> as having attended "The University of <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>." That would essentially be the high point of Karras' three-year tenure, with a developing movie career often distracting him from showing any improvement (in reality, Sistrunk did not attend any college but enlisted in the United States Marine Corps after high school and played semi-professional football before getting a tryout with the Raiders; the Raiders team guide listed his college alma mater as "U.S. Mars"). </p><p>During the October 13, <a href="/wiki/1974_NFL_season" title="1974 NFL season">1974</a>, <a href="/wiki/1974_New_Orleans_Saints_season" title="1974 New Orleans Saints season">New Orleans Saints</a>–<a href="/wiki/1974_Denver_Broncos_season" title="1974 Denver Broncos season">Denver Broncos</a> game, the broadcasting duo of play-by-play announcer <a href="/wiki/Don_Criqui" title="Don Criqui">Don Criqui</a> and <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentator</a> <a href="/wiki/Irv_Cross" title="Irv Cross">Irv Cross</a> was supplemented by the contributions of the first woman ever on an NFL telecast, <a href="/wiki/Jane_Chastain" title="Jane Chastain">Jane Chastain</a>, a sports reporter for <a href="/wiki/WTVJ" title="WTVJ">WTVJ</a>, Miami's CBS affiliate. While providing limited commentary, Chastain was used on an irregular basis over the rest of the season. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1975"><a href="/wiki/1975_NFL_season" title="1975 NFL season">1975</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1975"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Super Bowl IX was broadcast in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> by <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> with <a href="/wiki/Play-by-play" class="mw-redirect" title="Play-by-play">play-by-play announcer</a> <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentators</a> <a href="/wiki/Al_DeRogatis" title="Al DeRogatis">Al DeRogatis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Don_Meredith" title="Don Meredith">Don Meredith</a>. <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Jones_(sportscaster)" title="Charlie Jones (sportscaster)">Charlie Jones</a> served as the event's field reporter and covered the <a href="/wiki/Vince_Lombardi_Trophy" title="Vince Lombardi Trophy">trophy presentation</a>; while hosting the coverage was <a href="/wiki/NBC_News" title="NBC News">NBC News</a> reporter <a href="/wiki/Jack_Perkins_(reporter)" title="Jack Perkins (reporter)">Jack Perkins</a> and Jeannie Morris (Morris, then the wife of former <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a> wide receiver and <a href="/wiki/WMAQ-TV" title="WMAQ-TV">WMAQ-TV</a> sports anchor <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Morris_(American_football)" title="Johnny Morris (American football)">Johnny Morris</a>) became the first woman to participate in Super Bowl coverage).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to the <a href="/wiki/1975_NFL_season" title="1975 NFL season">1975 NFL season</a>, NBC did not have a regular pregame show. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1975_NFL_season" title="1975 NFL season">1975</a>, CBS debuted <i>The NFL Today</i>, a pre-game show originally hosted by journalist <a href="/wiki/Brent_Musburger" title="Brent Musburger">Brent Musburger</a> and former NFL player <a href="/wiki/Irv_Cross" title="Irv Cross">Irv Cross</a>, with former <a href="/wiki/Miss_America" title="Miss America">Miss America</a> <a href="/wiki/Phyllis_George" title="Phyllis George">Phyllis George</a> serving as one of the reporters. <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentator)" title="Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)">Jimmy Snyder</a>, nicknamed "The Greek", joined the program in <a href="/wiki/1976_NFL_season" title="1976 NFL season">1976</a>. Snyder was dismissed by CBS Sports at the end of the 1987 season, one day after making comments about racial differences among NFL players on <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr. Day">Martin Luther King, Jr. Day</a> in January 1988. Phyllis George was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Jayne_Kennedy" title="Jayne Kennedy">Jayne Kennedy</a> (who was crowned <a href="/wiki/Miss_Ohio_USA" title="Miss Ohio USA">Miss Ohio USA</a> in 1970) for the 1978 season, only for Kennedy to depart at the end of <a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">the following season</a>. George would return in 1980 and stay on through the <a href="/wiki/1983_NFL_season" title="1983 NFL season">1983 season</a>; she was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Charlsie_Cantey" title="Charlsie Cantey">Charlsie Cantey</a>. In 1979, the first year that the <a href="/wiki/Sports_Emmy_Awards" title="Sports Emmy Awards">Sports Emmy Awards</a> were awarded to sportscasts, <i>The NFL Today</i> was among the recipients. </p><p>Meanwhile, NBC's first official NFL pre-game show, <i><b>GrandStand</b></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a program that doubled as a competing sports <a href="/wiki/Anthology_series" title="Anthology series">anthology series</a> to <i><a href="/wiki/Wide_World_of_Sports_(US_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wide World of Sports (US TV series)">ABC's Wide World of Sports</a></i> during the off-season (<i>GrandStand</i> also served as the pre-game show for <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC" title="Major League Baseball on NBC">NBC</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Major League Baseball Game of the Week</a></i> during the <a href="/wiki/1976_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1976 Major League Baseball season">1976 season</a>) premiered<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with hosts <a href="/wiki/Jack_Buck" title="Jack Buck">Jack Buck</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bryant_Gumbel" title="Bryant Gumbel">Bryant Gumbel</a> (who joined Buck sometime later in the season). Prior to 1975, NBC would air the <a href="/wiki/Sunday_morning_talk_show" title="Sunday morning talk show">political talk show</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Meet_the_Press" title="Meet the Press">Meet the Press</a></i> in the NFL pre-game show's timeslot (12:30 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time</a>). </p><p>Also by <a href="/wiki/1975_NFL_season" title="1975 NFL season">1975</a>, CBS used several themes (technically, CBS had different opening songs and graphics per crew) to open their broadcasts, ranging from <a href="/wiki/David_Shire" title="David Shire">David Shire</a>'s "Manhattan Skyline" from the <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever" title="Saturday Night Fever">Saturday Night Fever</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever_(soundtrack)" title="Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)">soundtrack</a> to "<a href="/wiki/Fly,_Robin,_Fly" title="Fly, Robin, Fly">Fly, Robin, Fly</a>" by the <a href="/wiki/Silver_Convention" title="Silver Convention">Silver Convention</a>. Around this time, Electric Light Orchestra's "Fire on High" was also used as a lead-in to the broadcast. </p><p>One of the trademarks of <i>Monday Night Football</i> is a music cue used during the opening teasers of each program, a <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Pearson" title="Johnny Pearson">Johnny Pearson</a>-composition titled "<a href="/wiki/Heavy_Action" title="Heavy Action">Heavy Action</a>", originally a <a href="/wiki/KPM_Musichouse" class="mw-redirect" title="KPM Musichouse">KPM</a> production library cue (and also used as the theme music for the <a href="/wiki/British_Broadcasting_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="British Broadcasting Corporation">BBC</a> programme <i><a href="/wiki/Superstars_(British_TV_programme)" title="Superstars (British TV programme)">Superstars</a></i>), which <i>MNF</i> began using in 1975. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1975_NFL_season" title="1975 NFL season">1975</a>, because of NBC's coverage of Game 2 of the <a href="/wiki/1975_World_Series" title="1975 World Series">World Series</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1975_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1975 Cincinnati Reds season">Cincinnati Reds</a> and <a href="/wiki/1975_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1975 Boston Red Sox season">Boston Red Sox</a>, NBC's 1:00 p.m. NFL telecasts were cancelled.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All games except for the <a href="/wiki/1975_New_England_Patriots_season" title="1975 New England Patriots season">New England Patriots</a>–<a href="/wiki/1975_Cincinnati_Bengals_season" title="1975 Cincinnati Bengals season">Cincinnati Bengals</a> match were picked up by local stations in the markets of the visiting team. Meanwhile, at 4:00 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time</a>, NBC aired a game between the <a href="/wiki/1975_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1975 Oakland Raiders season">Oakland Raiders</a> and <a href="/wiki/1975_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="1975 Kansas City Chiefs season">Kansas City Chiefs</a> nationally. As the 1975 World Series progressed, NBC would advertise its upcoming weekend schedule during the breaks: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>If we have a Game 7, we'll have <i>The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola</i> at 12:30 and Game 7 from <a href="/wiki/Fenway_Park" title="Fenway Park">Fenway</a>. Otherwise, we'll have <i><a href="/wiki/The_NFL_on_NBC_Pregame_Show#GrandStand" class="mw-redirect" title="The NFL on NBC Pregame Show">GrandStand</a></i> at 12:30, and <a href="/wiki/1975_Buffalo_Bills_season" title="1975 Buffalo Bills season">Buffalo</a>/<a href="/wiki/1975_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="1975 Miami Dolphins season">Miami</a> for most of you at 1:00. Either way, you win at NBC.</p></blockquote> <p>As it turned out, no baseball was played that Sunday. Three days of rain in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> forced Game 6 to be postponed until the following Tuesday, October 21, followed by Game 7 the next night. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1976"><a href="/wiki/1976_NFL_season" title="1976 NFL season">1976</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1976"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CBS' 1976 telecast of <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_X" title="Super Bowl X">Super Bowl X</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1975_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1975 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> and <a href="/wiki/1975_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1975 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas Cowboys</a> was viewed by an estimated 80 million people, the largest television audience in history at the time. CBS' telecast featured play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall (calling his first Super Bowl in that role) and color commentator <a href="/wiki/Tom_Brookshier" title="Tom Brookshier">Tom Brookshier</a>. Towards the end of the game, <a href="/wiki/Hank_Stram" title="Hank Stram">Hank Stram</a> took over for Brookshier, who had left the booth to head down to the <a href="/wiki/Locker_room" class="mw-redirect" title="Locker room">locker room</a> area to conduct the postgame interviews with the winning team. </p><p>Hosting television coverage was <i><a href="/wiki/The_NFL_Today" title="The NFL Today">The NFL Today</a></i> crew of <a href="/wiki/Brent_Musburger" title="Brent Musburger">Brent Musburger</a>; <a href="/wiki/Irv_Cross" title="Irv Cross">Irv Cross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phyllis_George" title="Phyllis George">Phyllis George</a>. During this game, CBS began using <a href="/wiki/Jan_Stoeckart" title="Jan Stoeckart">Jack Trombey</a>'s "Horizontal Hold" as the theme music. That would be used the following season for the <i>NFL Today</i> pregame show between <a href="/wiki/1976_NFL_season" title="1976 NFL season">1976</a> and <a href="/wiki/1980_NFL_season" title="1980 NFL season">1980</a> in its original form, with a remake for <a href="/wiki/1981_NFL_season" title="1981 NFL season">1981</a> followed by updates for <a href="/wiki/1984_NFL_season" title="1984 NFL season">1984</a> and <a href="/wiki/1989_NFL_season" title="1989 NFL season">1989</a> before its retirement. </p><p>By this time, <i>The NFL Today</i> began the complex process of producing three separate live pre-game, halftime and postgame programs for 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m. (through 1981) and 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) games. Also for the first time, signature musical pieces are produced for NFL coverage. The show's signature theme was "Horizontal Hold," a piece by <a href="/wiki/Jan_Stoeckart" title="Jan Stoeckart">Jan Stoeckart</a> (recorded under his pseudonym of Jack Trombey). <i>The NFL Today</i> was among the recipients of the <a href="/wiki/Sports_Emmy_Awards" title="Sports Emmy Awards">Sports Emmy Awards</a> in its inaugural event in <a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">1979</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1976_NFL_season" title="1976 NFL season">1976</a>, Jack Buck left <i>GrandStand</i> in order to return to the booth as a <a href="/wiki/Play-by-play" class="mw-redirect" title="Play-by-play">play-by-play announcer</a>, remaining with NBC. He was replaced as co-host by <a href="/wiki/Lee_Leonard" title="Lee Leonard">Lee Leonard</a>. </p><p>Leonard (who would later become a co-host of <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/SportsCenter" title="SportsCenter">SportsCenter</a></i>) left the program in <a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a>, and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Adamle" title="Mike Adamle">Mike Adamle</a> and Regina Haskins<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as Gumbel's co-hosts. For the post-game show, <i>GrandStand</i> kept the <i><a href="/wiki/Sperry_Corporation" title="Sperry Corporation">Sperry</a> NFL Report</i>, although later incarnations of the post-game would be retitled the <i><a href="/wiki/Budweiser_(Anheuser-Busch)" class="mw-redirect" title="Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch)">Budweiser</a> NFL Report</i>. </p><p>On October 12, 1976, Commissioner Pete Rozelle negotiated contracts with the three television networks to televise all NFL regular-season and postseason games, as well as selected preseason games, for four years beginning with the <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978 season</a>. ABC was awarded yearly rights to 16 <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday night games</a>, four prime time games, the <a href="/wiki/Pro_Bowl" title="Pro Bowl">AFC-NFC Pro Bowl</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame_Game" title="Pro Football Hall of Fame Game">Hall of Fame Games</a>. CBS received the rights to all NFC regular season and postseason games (except those in the ABC package) and to Super Bowls <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIV" title="Super Bowl XIV">XIV</a> and <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVI" title="Super Bowl XVI">XVI</a>. NBC received the rights to all AFC regular season and postseason games (except those in the ABC package) and to Super Bowls <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIII" title="Super Bowl XIII">XIII</a> and <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XV" title="Super Bowl XV">XV</a>. Industry sources considered it the largest single television package ever negotiated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1977"><a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1977"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 9, 1977, 81.9 million people (the largest audience ever for a sports event at that point) watched NBC's telecast of <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XI" title="Super Bowl XI">Super Bowl XI</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1976_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1976 Oakland Raiders season">Oakland Raiders</a> and <a href="/wiki/1976_Minnesota_Vikings_season" title="1976 Minnesota Vikings season">Minnesota Vikings</a>. Only three other television events prior to that time, all of which aired on all three commercial networks of the era (the funeral of President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, the 1969 moonwalk of <a href="/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin" title="Buzz Aldrin">Buzz Aldrin</a>; and the 1974 resignation speech of President <a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard M. Nixon</a>), attracted more viewers than Super Bowl IX. The game was also the last broadcast that color commentator Don Meredith, who called the game with Gowdy, did for NBC, as he returned to ABC to rejoin the <i><a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday Night Football</a></i> crew for the <a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977 season</a>, where he had been a commentator from 1970–73. <a href="/wiki/Bryant_Gumbel" title="Bryant Gumbel">Bryant Gumbel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lee_Leonard" title="Lee Leonard">Lee Leonard</a> with analyst <a href="/wiki/John_Brodie" title="John Brodie">John Brodie</a> anchored NBC's pregame, halftime and postgame coverage. </p><p>At the height of the <a href="/wiki/Disco" title="Disco">disco</a> fad, from <a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a> to <a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">1979</a>, CBS used <a href="/wiki/Meco" title="Meco">Meco</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Theme/Cantina_Band" title="Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band">Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band</a>," a disco arrangement of <a href="/wiki/John_Williams" title="John Williams">John Williams</a>'s theme from <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i>, as a musical theme. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a>, NBC dropped the <i>GrandStand</i> moniker in favor of <i><b>NFL</b></i>, which the title being paired with a year number that corresponded to the then-current NFL season (such as <i>NFL '77</i> and <i>NFL '78</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beginning with <i>NFL '80</i>, NBC would pioneer the use of the in-game highlight packages<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ("Let's go to New York for an <i>NFL '80</i> update") NBC would use this particular method of titling their pregame show until the <a href="/wiki/1987_NFL_season" title="1987 NFL season">1987 season</a>. </p><p>Meredith returned to the ABC booth in 1977, but seemed to lack the enthusiasm that had marked his first stint from 1970 to 1973. While the NFL moved to a 16-week schedule in <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978</a>, Meredith was contractually obligated to work only 14 games, leaving Cosell and Gifford to work games as a duo or with newly retired <a href="/wiki/Fran_Tarkenton" title="Fran Tarkenton">Fran Tarkenton</a> beginning in <a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">1979</a>. </p><p>From 1977 to <a href="/wiki/1986_NFL_season" title="1986 NFL season">1986</a>, ABC also aired occasional NFL games on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Each of these telecasts would be billed by the network as a "Special Thursday/Saturday/Sunday Night Edition of <i>Monday Night Football</i>". </p><p>On October 12, 1977, Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Pete_Rozelle" title="Pete Rozelle">Pete Rozelle</a> negotiated contracts with the three television networks to televise all NFL regular season and postseason games, as well as select preseason games, for four years beginning with the <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978 season</a>. <a href="/wiki/ESPN_on_ABC" title="ESPN on ABC">ABC</a> was awarded yearly rights to 16 <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday night games</a>, four <a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">prime time</a> games, the <a href="/wiki/Pro_Bowl" title="Pro Bowl">AFC-NFC Pro Bowl</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame_Game" title="Pro Football Hall of Fame Game">Hall of Fame Games</a>. <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_CBS" title="NFL on CBS">CBS</a> received the rights to all <a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">National Football Conference</a> (NFC) regular season and postseason games (except those in the ABC package) and to Super Bowls <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIV" title="Super Bowl XIV">XIV</a> and <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVI" title="Super Bowl XVI">XVI</a>. NBC received the rights to all AFC regular-season and postseason games (except those in the ABC package) and to Super Bowls <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIII" title="Super Bowl XIII">XIII</a> and <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XV" title="Super Bowl XV">XV</a>. Industry sources considered it the largest single television package ever negotiated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1978"><a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1978"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 15, 1978, the <a href="/wiki/1977_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1977 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas Cowboys</a> defeated the <a href="/wiki/1977_Denver_Broncos_season" title="1977 Denver Broncos season">Denver Broncos</a> in <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XII" title="Super Bowl XII">Super Bowl XII</a> in front of the largest audience ever to watch a sporting event. CBS scored a 47.2/67 national household rating/share, the highest-rated Super Bowl to date. </p><p>This game was the first Super Bowl to be played in <a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">prime time</a>, was broadcast in the United States by <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> with <a href="/wiki/Play-by-play" class="mw-redirect" title="Play-by-play">play-by-play announcer</a> <a href="/wiki/Pat_Summerall" title="Pat Summerall">Pat Summerall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentator</a> <a href="/wiki/Tom_Brookshier" title="Tom Brookshier">Tom Brookshier</a>. The game kicked off at 5:17 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">Central Standard Time</a>. Hosting the coverage was <i><a href="/wiki/The_NFL_Today" title="The NFL Today">The NFL Today</a></i> hosts <a href="/wiki/Brent_Musburger" title="Brent Musburger">Brent Musburger</a>; <a href="/wiki/Irv_Cross" title="Irv Cross">Irv Cross</a>; <a href="/wiki/Phyllis_George" title="Phyllis George">Phyllis George</a> (in the last game of her first stint on the NFL Today before leaving to host the short-lived <i>People</i> the following season). Also contributing were <a href="/wiki/Hank_Stram" title="Hank Stram">Hank Stram</a> (who had recently been fired by the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints" title="New Orleans Saints">New Orleans Saints</a>); <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentator)" title="Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)">Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder</a>; <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Jurgensen" title="Sonny Jurgensen">Sonny Jurgensen</a> (working on <a href="/wiki/CBS_Radio" title="CBS Radio">CBS Radio</a> coverage); <a href="/wiki/Gary_Bender" title="Gary Bender">Gary Bender</a>; <a href="/wiki/Paul_Hornung" title="Paul Hornung">Paul Hornung</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nick_Buoniconti" title="Nick Buoniconti">Nick Buoniconti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Whitaker" title="Jack Whitaker">Jack Whitaker</a>. Buoniconti and Hornung served as sideline reporters; with Hornung doing postgame interviews in the Broncos' locker room; while Bender covered the <a href="/wiki/Vince_Lombardi_Trophy" title="Vince Lombardi Trophy">trophy presentation</a> in the Cowboy locker room. </p><p>An interesting aspect was the use of what was called an Electronic Palette graphics system<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (created by CBS and <a href="/wiki/Ampex" title="Ampex">Ampex</a>) for a painting-like aspect to several visual graphics; such as the game intro, starting lineups and bumpers going into or coming out of a commercial break. CBS would also unveil what was known as the "Action Track"; showing the trail of a football that had been kicked during replays.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, when the planned lead-in (the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Open" title="Phoenix Open">Phoenix Open</a> golf tournament) was halted due to poor weather, <a href="/wiki/CBS_Sports" title="CBS Sports">CBS Sports</a> president <a href="/wiki/Robert_Wussler" title="Robert Wussler">Robert Wussler</a> (in New York) and producer Barry Frank (at the <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Superdome" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercedes-Benz Superdome">Superdome</a>) ended up filling the time period with an impromptu look at how the game would be produced.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As in their <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_X" title="Super Bowl X">previous Super Bowl</a>; CBS used the <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> song "Winners" to play over the closing montage. </p><p>Prior to <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978</a>, Monday night games were not scheduled in the final week (Week 14) of the regular season. From <a href="/wiki/1974_NFL_season" title="1974 NFL season">1974</a> to <a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a>, a Saturday night game was scheduled for Week 14 and televised live by ABC in lieu of a game on Monday night. </p><p>One of the more somber contests in the run of the <i>Monday Night Football</i> series came on November 27, 1978 when the <a href="/wiki/1978_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="1978 San Francisco 49ers season">San Francisco 49ers</a> hosted the <a href="/wiki/1978_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1978 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a>. Earlier in the day, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Mayors_of_San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Mayors of San Francisco, California">San Francisco mayor</a> <a href="/wiki/George_Moscone" title="George Moscone">George Moscone</a> and City Supervisor <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Milk" title="Harvey Milk">Harvey Milk</a> had been murdered at City Hall. Despite the complaints that followed, the NFL chose to play the game, a decision that mirrored the league's decision to play its scheduled games during the weekend following the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of John F. Kennedy">assassination</a> of President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> <a href="/wiki/1963_NFL_season" title="1963 NFL season">15 years earlier</a>. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/1975_World_Series" title="1975 World Series">1975 World Series</a>, Curt Gowdy was removed from NBC's baseball telecasts, when sponsor <a href="/wiki/Chrysler" title="Chrysler">Chrysler</a> insisted on having <a href="/wiki/Joe_Garagiola,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joe Garagiola, Sr.">Joe Garagiola</a> (who served as a spokesman in many of the automotive manufacturer's commercials) be the lead play-by-play voice. Gowdy continued as NBC's lead NFL announcer through the <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978 season</a>, with his final broadcast being the memorable <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIII" title="Super Bowl XIII">Super Bowl XIII</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1978_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1978 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> and <a href="/wiki/1978_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1978 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas Cowboys</a>. With NBC now anxious to promote <a href="/wiki/Dick_Enberg" title="Dick Enberg">Dick Enberg</a> (who hosted NBC's pre-game and post-game coverage of Super Bowl XIII) to the lead NFL position, Gowdy moved over to <a href="/wiki/CBS_Sports" title="CBS Sports">CBS</a> to call more <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_CBS" title="NFL on CBS">football</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_CBS_Radio" title="Major League Baseball on CBS Radio">baseball on radio</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1979"><a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">1979</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1979"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>NBC's January 21, 1979 telecast of <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIII" title="Super Bowl XIII">Super Bowl XIII</a> between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys was viewed in 35,090,000 households, by an estimated 96.6 million fans. The game – called by Curt Gowdy on play-by-play, with Merlin Olsen and John Brodie on color commentary and Dick Enberg served as the pregame host for the broadcast with <a href="/wiki/Bryant_Gumbel" title="Bryant Gumbel">Bryant Gumbel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Adamle" title="Mike Adamle">Mike Adamle</a> as sideline reporters – was Gowdy's seventh and final Super Bowl telecast, and his last major event for NBC before moving to CBS later in 1979. Enberg had essentially succeeded Gowdy as NBC's lead NFL play-by-play announcer in the 1978 regular season, and network producers did not decide until nearly the last minute which of them would conduct play-by-play for that year's Super Bowl. NBC preceded the game with the first network broadcast of <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Sunday_(1977_film)" title="Black Sunday (1977 film)">Black Sunday</a></i>, a 1977 film that depicts a terrorist attack on a fictitious Super Bowl game in the Orange Bowl between Pittsburgh and Dallas (and which utilized footage shot during Super Bowl X). The pregame festivities featured the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys_Cheerleaders" title="Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders">Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders</a> and several military bands. <a href="/wiki/The_Colgate_Thirteen" title="The Colgate Thirteen">The Colgate Thirteen</a> performed the national anthem. The <a href="/wiki/Coin_flipping" title="Coin flipping">coin toss</a> ceremony featured <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="Pro Football Hall of Fame">Pro Football Hall of Famer</a> and longtime <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a> owner/head coach <a href="/wiki/George_Halas" title="George Halas">George Halas</a>. </p><p>The opening Monday night contest of the <a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">1979 season</a> saw a poignant moment as former <a href="/wiki/New_England_Patriots" title="New England Patriots">New England Patriots</a> wide receiver <a href="/wiki/Darryl_Stingley" title="Darryl Stingley">Darryl Stingley</a> was introduced to a sellout crowd at the <a href="/wiki/1979_New_England_Patriots_season" title="1979 New England Patriots season">Patriots</a>' <a href="/wiki/Schaefer_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Schaefer Stadium">Schaefer Stadium</a>. Stingley had been <a href="/wiki/Paralysis" title="Paralysis">paralyzed</a> in a preseason game the year before and was making his first visit to the stadium since the accident. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_on_television_in_the_1970s&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFJack_BuckRob_Rains1997" class="citation book cs1">Jack Buck; Rob Rains (1997). <i>That's a Winner!</i>. 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(March 2022)">bare URL PDF</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Madsen_15-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Madsen_15_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Madsen 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrulia" class="citation web cs1">Brulia, Tim. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://profootballresearchers.com/archives/Website_Files/Coffin_Corner/26-04-1038.pdf">"A CHRONOLOGY OF PRO FOOTBALL ON TELEVISION: Part 2"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Pro Football Researchers</i>.</cite><span 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doubleheader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Chicago_Bears%E2%80%93Arizona_Cardinals_game" title="2006 Chicago Bears–Arizona Cardinals game">2006 Bears–Cardinals comeback</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fail_Mary" title="Fail Mary">Fail Mary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Kansas_City_Chiefs%E2%80%93Los_Angeles_Rams_game" title="2018 Kansas City Chiefs–Los Angeles Rams game">2018 Chiefs–Rams shootout</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Manningcast" title="Manningcast">Manningcast</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damar_Hamlin#In-game_collapse" title="Damar Hamlin">Collapse of Damar Hamlin</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>ESPN Sunday Night Football</i> era</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>American Bowl (1990–2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_Americano" title="Fútbol Americano">Fútbol Americano</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pro Bowls broadcast on ESPN</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1988_Pro_Bowl" title="1988 Pro Bowl">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Pro_Bowl" title="1989 Pro Bowl">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Pro_Bowl" title="1990 Pro Bowl">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Pro_Bowl" title="1991 Pro Bowl">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Pro_Bowl" title="1992 Pro Bowl">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Pro_Bowl" title="1993 Pro Bowl">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Pro_Bowl" title="1994 Pro Bowl">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Pro_Bowl" title="2004 Pro Bowl">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_Pro_Bowl" title="2005 Pro Bowl">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pro_Bowl" title="2006 Pro Bowl">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Pro_Bowl" title="2010 Pro Bowl">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Pro_Bowl" title="2015 Pro Bowl">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Pro_Bowl" title="2016 Pro Bowl">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Pro_Bowl" title="2017 Pro Bowl">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Pro_Bowl" title="2018 Pro Bowl">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Pro_Bowl" title="2019 Pro Bowl">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Pro_Bowl" title="2020 Pro Bowl">2020</a></li> <li><s><a href="/wiki/2021_Pro_Bowl" title="2021 Pro Bowl">2021</a></s></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Pro_Bowl" title="2022 Pro Bowl">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Pro_Bowl_Games" title="2023 Pro Bowl Games">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Pro_Bowl_Games" title="2024 Pro Bowl Games">2024</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2025_Pro_Bowl_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="2025 Pro Bowl Games">2025</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">Music</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edd_Kalehoff" title="Edd Kalehoff">Edd Kalehoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Pearson" title="Johnny Pearson">Johnny Pearson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Williams_Jr." title="Hank Williams Jr.">Hank Williams Jr.</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Songs" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/All_My_Rowdy_Friends_Are_Coming_Over_Tonight" title="All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight">All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Heavy_Action" title="Heavy Action">Heavy Action</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Start_Me_Up" title="Start Me Up">Start Me Up</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Party%27s_Over_and_Other_Great_Willie_Nelson_Songs" title="The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs">The Party's Over</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivalries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Broncos%E2%80%93Raiders_rivalry" title="Broncos–Raiders rivalry">Broncos–Raiders rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commanders%E2%80%93Cowboys_rivalry" title="Commanders–Cowboys rivalry">Commanders–Cowboys rivalry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Results</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>ABC <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Monday_Night_Football_results_(1970%E2%80%932005)" title="List of Monday Night Football results (1970–2005)">1970–2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_on_ABC_results" title="List of NFL on ABC results">2015–present</a></li></ul></li> <li>ESPN <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sunday_Night_Football_results_(1987%E2%80%932005)" title="List of Sunday Night Football results (1987–2005)">1987–2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Monday_Night_Football_results_(2006%E2%80%932019)" title="List of Monday Night Football results (2006–2019)">2006–2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Monday_Night_Football_results_(2020%E2%80%93present)" title="List of Monday Night Football results (2020–present)">2020–present</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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World of Sports</a></i></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Non-NFL_programs" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-NFL programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/College_Football_on_ABC" title="College Football on ABC">College Football on ABC</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Football_League_on_television" title="United States Football League on television">USFL on ABC</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_Europe" title="NFL Europe">World League of American Football on ABC</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Monday_Night_Football" title="History of Monday Night Football">History of <i>Monday Night Football</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television" title="NFL on television">NFL on television</a> (<a href="/wiki/History_of_the_NFL_on_television" title="History of the NFL on television">history</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1950s" title="NFL on television in the 1950s">1950s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1960s" title="NFL on television in the 1960s">1960s</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1970s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1980s" title="NFL on television in the 1980s">1980s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1990s" title="NFL on television in the 1990s">1990s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_2000s" title="NFL on television in the 2000s">2000s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_2020s" title="NFL on television in the 2020s">2020s</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Mayhem" title="Monday Night Mayhem"><i>Monday Night Mayhem</i> (film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ABC_Monday_Night_Football_(video_game)" title="ABC Monday Night Football (video game)"><i>ABC Monday Night Football</i> (video game)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings" title="Super Bowl television ratings">Super Bowl TV ratings</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_lead-out_programs" title="List of Super Bowl lead-out programs">lead-out programs</a>)</li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Chicago_Bears_broadcasters" title="List of Chicago Bears broadcasters">Chicago Bears</a> (home games)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1953_Chicago_Bears_season" title="1953 Chicago Bears season">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Chicago_Bears_season" title="1954 Chicago Bears season">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_Chicago_Bears_season" title="1955 Chicago Bears season">1955</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Arizona_Cardinals_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Arizona Cardinals broadcasters">Chicago Cardinals</a> (home games)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1953_Chicago_Cardinals_season" title="1953 Chicago Cardinals season">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Chicago_Cardinals_season" title="1954 Chicago Cardinals season">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_Chicago_Cardinals_season" title="1955 Chicago Cardinals season">1955</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Los_Angeles_Rams_broadcasters" title="List of Los Angeles Rams broadcasters">Los Angeles Rams</a> (Pacific Time Zone <a href="/wiki/List_of_ABC_television_affiliates_(by_U.S._state)" title="List of ABC television affiliates (by U.S. state)">affiliates</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1955_Los_Angeles_Rams_season" title="1955 Los Angeles Rams season">1955</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco 49ers broadcasters">San Francisco 49ers</a> (Pacific Time Zone <a href="/wiki/List_of_ABC_television_affiliates_(by_U.S._state)" title="List of ABC television affiliates (by U.S. state)">affiliates</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1955_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="1955 San Francisco 49ers season">1955</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Washington_Commanders_broadcasters" title="List of Washington Commanders broadcasters">Washington Redskins</a> (home games)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1954_Washington_Redskins_season" title="1954 Washington Redskins season">1954</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Monday_Night_Football_commentators" title="List of Monday Night Football commentators">Commentators</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_AFL_All-Star_Game_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of AFL All-Star Game broadcasters">AFL All-Star Game</a></li> <li>American Bowl</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_draft_broadcasters" title="List of NFL draft broadcasters">NFL draft</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Postseason_commentators" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Postseason commentators</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_AFL_Championship_Game_broadcasters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of AFL Championship Game broadcasters (page does not exist)">AFL Championship Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_Championship_Game_broadcasters" title="List of NFL Championship Game broadcasters">NFL Championship Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_broadcasters" title="List of Super Bowl broadcasters">Super Bowl</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lore televised by ABC</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Body_Bag_Game" title="Body Bag Game">Body Bag Game</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon" title="Murder of John Lennon">Death of John Lennon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Favre%27s_Dad_Game" title="Favre's Dad Game">Favre's Dad Game</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Miracle_(American_football)" title="Monday Night Miracle (American football)">Monday Night Miracle</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="1994 Kansas City Chiefs season">Montana outduels Elway</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Snowball_Game_(1985)" title="Snowball Game (1985)">Snowball Game</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Theismann" title="Joe Theismann">Joe Theismann</a>'s <a href="/wiki/1985_Washington_Redskins_season" title="1985 Washington Redskins season">career-ending sack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_New_England_Patriots_season#Week_15:_at_Miami_Dolphins" title="2004 New England Patriots season">"The Night That Courage Wore Orange"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Bowl_%2791" title="World Bowl '91">World Bowl '91</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damar_Hamlin#In-game_collapse" title="Damar Hamlin">Collapse of Damar Hamlin</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Postseason_lore" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Postseason lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Music_City_Miracle" title="Music City Miracle">Music City Miracle</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXIV" title="Super Bowl XXXIV">One Yard Short</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Star_Spangled_Banner_(Whitney_Houston_recording)" title="The Star Spangled Banner (Whitney Houston recording)">"The Star-Spangled Banner" (Whitney Houston recording)</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Wide_Right_(Buffalo_Bills)" title="Wide Right (Buffalo Bills)">Wide Right</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fox_(composer)" title="Charles Fox (composer)">Charles Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edd_Kalehoff" title="Edd Kalehoff">Edd Kalehoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Pearson" title="Johnny Pearson">Johnny Pearson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Williams_Jr." title="Hank Williams Jr.">Hank Williams Jr.</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Songs" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/All_My_Rowdy_Friends_Are_Coming_Over_Tonight" title="All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight">All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Heavy_Action" title="Heavy Action">Heavy Action</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Party%27s_Over_(Willie_Nelson_song)" title="The Party's Over (Willie Nelson song)">The Party's Over</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NFL Championship</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1948_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1948 NFL Championship Game">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1950 NFL Championship Game">1950</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Super Bowl</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIX" title="Super Bowl XIX">XIX</a> (<a href="/wiki/1984_NFL_season" title="1984 NFL season">1984</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXII" title="Super Bowl XXII">XXII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1987_NFL_season" title="1987 NFL season">1987</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXV" title="Super Bowl XXV">XXV</a> (<a href="/wiki/1990_NFL_season" title="1990 NFL season">1990</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXIX" title="Super Bowl XXIX">XXIX</a> (<a href="/wiki/1994_NFL_season" title="1994 NFL season">1994</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXIV" title="Super Bowl XXXIV">XXXIV</a> (<a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_season" title="1999 NFL season">1999</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVII" title="Super Bowl XXXVII">XXXVII</a> (<a href="/wiki/2002_NFL_season" title="2002 NFL season">2002</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XL" title="Super Bowl XL">XL</a> (<a href="/wiki/2005_NFL_season" title="2005 NFL season">2005</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LXI" title="Super Bowl LXI">LXI</a> (<a href="/wiki/2026_NFL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2026 NFL season">2026</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Super_Bowl_LXV&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Super Bowl LXV (page does not exist)">LXV</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=2030_NFL_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2030 NFL season (page does not exist)">2030</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pro Bowl</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1975_Pro_Bowl" title="1975 Pro Bowl">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Pro_Bowl" title="1976 Pro Bowl">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Pro_Bowl" title="1977 Pro Bowl">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_Pro_Bowl" title="1978 Pro Bowl">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_Pro_Bowl" title="1979 Pro Bowl">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Pro_Bowl" title="1980 Pro Bowl">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_Pro_Bowl" title="1981 Pro Bowl">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_Pro_Bowl" title="1982 Pro Bowl">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_Pro_Bowl" title="1983 Pro Bowl">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Pro_Bowl" title="1984 Pro Bowl">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_Pro_Bowl" title="1985 Pro Bowl">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_Pro_Bowl" title="1986 Pro Bowl">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_Pro_Bowl" title="1987 Pro Bowl">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Pro_Bowl" title="1995 Pro Bowl">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Pro_Bowl" title="1996 Pro Bowl">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Pro_Bowl" title="1997 Pro Bowl">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Pro_Bowl" title="1998 Pro Bowl">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_Pro_Bowl" title="1999 Pro Bowl">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Pro_Bowl" title="2000 Pro Bowl">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Pro_Bowl" title="2001 Pro Bowl">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Pro_Bowl" title="2002 Pro Bowl">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Pro_Bowl" title="2003 Pro Bowl">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Pro_Bowl" title="2018 Pro Bowl">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Pro_Bowl" title="2019 Pro Bowl">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Pro_Bowl" title="2020 Pro Bowl">2020</a></li> <li><s><a href="/wiki/2021_Pro_Bowl" title="2021 Pro Bowl">2021</a></s></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Pro_Bowl" title="2022 Pro Bowl">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Pro_Bowl_Games" title="2023 Pro Bowl Games">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Pro_Bowl_Games" title="2024 Pro Bowl Games">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">AFL Championship</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1960 American Football League Championship Game">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1961 American Football League Championship Game">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1962 American Football League Championship Game">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1963 American Football League Championship Game">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1964 American Football League Championship Game">1964</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Results and standings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Yearly_results" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Yearly results</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Monday_Night_Football_results_(1970%E2%80%932005)" title="List of Monday Night Football results (1970–2005)">1970–2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_on_ABC_results" title="List of NFL on ABC results">2015–present</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NFL draft</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2018_NFL_draft" title="2018 NFL draft">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_NFL_draft" title="2019 NFL draft">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_NFL_draft" title="2020 NFL draft">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_draft" title="2021 NFL draft">2021</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NFL Honors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/11th_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="11th Annual NFL Honors">2022</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=NFL">ABC News - NFL News</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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on television in the 1960s">1960s</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1970s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1980s" title="NFL on television in the 1980s">1980s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1990s" title="NFL on television in the 1990s">1990s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_2000s" title="NFL on television in the 2000s">2000s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_2010s" title="NFL on television in the 2010s">2010s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KCBS-TV" title="KCBS-TV">KCBS-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KCNC-TV" title="KCNC-TV">KCNC-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KDKA-TV" title="KDKA-TV">KDKA-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WBZ-TV" title="WBZ-TV">WBZ-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WJZ-TV" title="WJZ-TV">WJZ-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WCBS-TV" title="WCBS-TV">WCBS-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WFOR-TV" title="WFOR-TV">WFOR-TV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings" title="Super Bowl television ratings">Super Bowl TV ratings</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_lead-out_programs" title="List of Super Bowl lead-out programs">lead-out programs</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">Prime-time</a> results</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NFL_Network_Thursday_Night_Football_results_(2006%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL Network Thursday Night Football results (2006–present)"><i>Thursday Night Football</i> results (2006–present)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_on_CBS_announcers" title="List of NFL on CBS announcers">Commentators</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_Today_personalities" title="List of NFL Today personalities"><i>NFL Today</i> personalities</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Postseason</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_broadcasters" title="List of Super Bowl broadcasters">Super Bowl</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-<a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_Championship_Game_broadcasters" title="List of NFL Championship Game broadcasters">NFL Championship Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Playoff_Bowl_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Playoff Bowl broadcasters">Playoff Bowl</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-US based games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bills_Toronto_Series" title="Bills Toronto Series">Bills Toronto Series</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Sunday_(1977_film)" title="Black Sunday (1977 film)">Black Sunday</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bottlegate" title="Bottlegate">Bottlegate</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bounty_Bowl" title="Bounty Bowl">Bounty Bowl series</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fortune_Cookie" title="The Fortune Cookie">The Fortune Cookie</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Brady%E2%80%93Peyton_Manning_rivalry" title="Tom Brady–Peyton Manning rivalry">Tom Brady–Peyton Manning rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colts%E2%80%93Patriots_rivalry" title="Colts–Patriots rivalry">Colts–Patriots rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broncos%E2%80%93Patriots_rivalry" title="Broncos–Patriots rivalry">Broncos–Patriots rivalry</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hail_Murray" title="Hail Murray">Hail Murray</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Hit_(Chuck_Bednarik)" title="The Hit (Chuck Bednarik)">"The Hit" (Chuck Bednarik)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Green_Bay_Packers_season" title="1989 Green Bay Packers season">"The Instant Replay Game"</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Miracle_at_the_Meadowlands" title="Miracle at the Meadowlands">Miracle at the Meadowlands</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Miracle_in_Miami" title="Miracle in Miami">Miracle in Miami</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Miracle_in_Motown" title="Miracle in Motown">Miracle in Motown</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Madhouse_in_Maryland" title="Madhouse in Maryland">Madhouse in Maryland</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles_Santa_Claus_incident" title="Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident">Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1990 Dallas Cowboys season">"Porkchop Bowl"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots%E2%80%93New_York_Giants_game" title="2007 New England Patriots–New York Giants game">16–0</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snow_Bowl_(1985)" title="Snow Bowl (1985)">Snow Bowl (1985)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snow_Bowl_(2017)" title="Snow Bowl (2017)">Snow Bowl (2017)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Dempsey" title="Tom Dempsey">Tom Dempsey's 63-yard field goal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_Tucker" title="Justin Tucker">Justin Tucker's 66-yard field goal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Marshall_(defensive_end)" title="Jim Marshall (defensive end)">"The Wrong Way Run"</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Postseason lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/49ers%E2%80%93Cowboys_rivalry" title="49ers–Cowboys rivalry">49ers–Cowboys rivalry</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Block_(American_Football)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Block (American Football)">The Block</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Catch_(American_football)" title="The Catch (American football)">The Catch</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Deflategate" title="Deflategate">Deflategate</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fog_Bowl_(American_football)" title="Fog Bowl (American football)">The Fog Bowl</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hail_Mary_pass" title="Hail Mary pass">The Hail Mary</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/1967_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1967 NFL Championship Game">The Ice Bowl</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_AFC_Divisional_playoff_game_(Pittsburgh%E2%80%93Indianapolis)" title="2005 AFC Divisional playoff game (Pittsburgh–Indianapolis)">Immaculate Redemption/The Tackle</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mile_High_Miracle" title="Mile High Miracle">Mile High Miracle</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy" title="Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy">Nipplegate</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tuck_Rule_Game" title="Tuck Rule Game">The Tuck Rule Game</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/2021_AFC_Divisional_playoff_game_(Buffalo%E2%80%93Kansas_City)" title="2021 AFC Divisional playoff game (Buffalo–Kansas City)">13 Seconds</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/3:16_game" title="3:16 game">3:16 game</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Holiday lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Thanksgiving_Day" title="NFL on Thanksgiving Day">NFL on Thanksgiving Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_Christmas_games" class="mw-redirect" title="National Football League Christmas games">Christmas games</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_CBS_music" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL on CBS music">Music</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty" title="The Secret Life of Walter Mitty">Confidence</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fly,_Robin,_Fly" title="Fly, Robin, Fly">Fly, Robin, Fly</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Crazy_on_You" title="Crazy on You">Crazy on You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Jan_Stoeckart" title="Jan Stoeckart">Horizontal Hold</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Moviendo_Caderas" title="Moviendo Caderas">Moviendo Caderas</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_My_City" title="In My City">In My City</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Posthumus_Zone" title="Posthumus Zone">Posthumus Zone</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Theme/Cantina_Band" title="Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band">Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Winner_Takes_It_All" title="The Winner Takes It All">The Winner Takes It All</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_NFL_championship" title="History of the NFL championship">NFL Championship</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1964_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1964 NFL Championship Game">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1965 NFL Championship Game">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1966 NFL Championship Game">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1967 NFL Championship Game">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1968 NFL Championship Game">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1969 NFL Championship Game">1969</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NFC_Championship_Game" title="NFC Championship Game">NFC Championship</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1970_NFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1970 NFC Championship Game">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_NFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1971 NFC Championship Game">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_NFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1972 NFC Championship Game">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_NFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1973 NFC Championship Game">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_NFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1974 NFC Championship Game">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_NFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1975 NFC Championship Game">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_NFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1976 NFC Championship Game">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_NFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 NFC Championship Game">1977</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl" title="Super Bowl">Super Bowl</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-<a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_I" title="Super Bowl I">I</a> (<a href="/wiki/1966_NFL_season" title="1966 NFL season">1966</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_II" title="Super Bowl II">II</a> (<a href="/wiki/1967_NFL_season" title="1967 NFL season">1967</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_IV" title="Super Bowl IV">IV</a> (<a href="/wiki/1969_NFL_season" title="1969 NFL season">1969</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a> package carrier<br />(<a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_season" title="1970 NFL season">1970</a>–<a href="/wiki/1993_NFL_season" title="1993 NFL season">1993</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_VI" title="Super Bowl VI">VI</a> (<a href="/wiki/1971_NFL_season" title="1971 NFL season">1971</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_VIII" title="Super Bowl VIII">VIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1973_NFL_season" title="1973 NFL season">1973</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_X" title="Super Bowl X">X</a> (<a href="/wiki/1975_NFL_season" title="1975 NFL season">1975</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XII" title="Super Bowl XII">XII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIV" title="Super Bowl XIV">XIV</a> (<a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">1979</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVI" title="Super Bowl XVI">XVI</a> (<a href="/wiki/1981_NFL_season" title="1981 NFL season">1981</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVIII" title="Super Bowl XVIII">XVIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1983_NFL_season" title="1983 NFL season">1983</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXI" title="Super Bowl XXI">XXI</a> (<a href="/wiki/1986_NFL_season" title="1986 NFL season">1986</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXIV" title="Super Bowl XXIV">XXIV</a> (<a href="/wiki/1989_NFL_season" title="1989 NFL season">1989</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXVI" title="Super Bowl XXVI">XXVI</a> (<a href="/wiki/1991_NFL_season" title="1991 NFL season">1991</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a> package carrier<br />(<a href="/wiki/1998_NFL_season" title="1998 NFL season">1998</a>–present)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXV" title="Super Bowl XXXV">XXXV</a> (<a href="/wiki/2000_NFL_season" title="2000 NFL season">2000</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII" title="Super Bowl XXXVIII">XXXVIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/2003_NFL_season" title="2003 NFL season">2003</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLI" title="Super Bowl XLI">XLI</a> (<a href="/wiki/2006_NFL_season" title="2006 NFL season">2006</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIV" title="Super Bowl XLIV">XLIV</a> (<a href="/wiki/2009_NFL_season" title="2009 NFL season">2009</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVII" title="Super Bowl XLVII">XLVII</a> (<a href="/wiki/2012_NFL_season" title="2012 NFL season">2012</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_50" title="Super Bowl 50">50</a> (<a href="/wiki/2015_NFL_season" title="2015 NFL season">2015</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LIII" title="Super Bowl LIII">LIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/2018_NFL_season" title="2018 NFL season">2018</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LV" title="Super Bowl LV">LV</a> (<a href="/wiki/2020_NFL_season" title="2020 NFL season">2020</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LVIII" title="Super Bowl LVIII">LVIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/2023_NFL_season" title="2023 NFL season">2023</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LXII" title="Super Bowl LXII">LXII</a> (<a href="/wiki/2027_NFL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2027 NFL season">2027</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Super_Bowl_LXVI&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Super Bowl LXVI (page does not exist)">LXVI</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=2031_NFL_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2031 NFL season (page does not exist)">2031</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_halftime_shows" title="List of Super Bowl halftime shows">Halftime shows</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_X_halftime_show" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Bowl X halftime show">X (1975)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIV_halftime_show" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Bowl XIV halftime show">XIV (1979)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVI_halftime_show" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Bowl XVI halftime show">XVI (1981)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXV_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XXXV halftime show">XXXV (2000)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show">XXXVIII (2003)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLI_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XLI halftime show">XLI (2006)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIV_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XLIV halftime show">XLIV (2009)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVII_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XLVII halftime show">XLVII (2012)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_50_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl 50 halftime show">50 (2015)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LIII_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl LIII halftime show">LIII (2018)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LV_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl LV halftime show">LV (2020)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LVIII_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl LVIII halftime show">LVIII (2023)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pro_Bowl" title="Pro Bowl">Pro Bowl</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1966_Pro_Bowl" title="1966 Pro Bowl">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_Pro_Bowl" title="1967 Pro Bowl">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Pro_Bowl" title="1968 Pro Bowl">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_Pro_Bowl" title="1969 Pro Bowl">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_Pro_Bowl" title="1970 Pro Bowl">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Pro_Bowl" title="1971 Pro Bowl">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Pro_Bowl" title="1973 Pro Bowl">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Pro_Bowl" title="2007 Pro Bowl">2007</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NFL_Honors" title="NFL Honors">NFL Honors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="2nd Annual NFL Honors">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="5th Annual NFL Honors">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="8th Annual NFL Honors">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10th_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="10th Annual NFL Honors">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/13th_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="13th Annual NFL Honors">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="NFL_on_NBC" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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NBC pregame show</a></i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Football_Night_in_America" title="Football Night in America">Football Night in America</a></i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football" title="NBC Sunday Night Football">NBC Sunday Night Football</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC_Radio" title="NFL on NBC Radio">NFL on NBC Radio</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thursday_Night_Football" title="Thursday Night Football">Thursday Night Football</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/2016_NFL_season" title="2016 NFL season">2016</a>–<a href="/wiki/2017_NFL_season" title="2017 NFL season">2017</a>)</li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">College football programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/College_Football_on_NBC_Sports" title="College Football on NBC Sports">College Football on NBC</a></i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_Football_on_NBC" title="Notre Dame Football on NBC">Notre Dame</a></i>, <i>Big Ten College Countdown</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/College_Football_on_USA" title="College Football on USA">College Football on USA</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other pro football programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/AFL_on_NBC" title="AFL on NBC">Arena Football League on NBC</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/CFL_on_NBC" title="CFL on NBC">Canadian Football League</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_Europe" title="NFL Europe"><i>World League of American Football on USA</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/XFL_(2001)" title="XFL (2001)">XFL on NBC</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television" title="NFL on television">NFL on television</a> (<a href="/wiki/History_of_the_NFL_on_television" title="History of the NFL on television">history</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1950s" title="NFL on television in the 1950s">1950s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1960s" title="NFL on television in the 1960s">1960s</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1970s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1980s" title="NFL on television in the 1980s">1980s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_1990s" title="NFL on television in the 1990s">1990s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_2000s" title="NFL on television in the 2000s">2000s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television_in_the_2010s" title="NFL on television in the 2010s">2010s</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings" title="Super Bowl television ratings">Super Bowl TV ratings</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_lead-out_programs" title="List of Super Bowl lead-out programs">lead-out programs</a>)</li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1965_American_Football_League_season" title="1965 American Football League season">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_American_Football_League_season" title="1966 American Football League season">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_American_Football_League_season" title="1967 American Football League season">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_American_Football_League_season" title="1968 American Football League season">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_American_Football_League_season" title="1969 American Football League season">1969</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indianapolis_Colts_broadcasters" title="List of Indianapolis Colts broadcasters">Baltimore Colts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1960 Baltimore Colts season">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1961 Baltimore Colts season">1961</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Pittsburgh_Steelers_broadcasters" title="List of Pittsburgh Steelers broadcasters">Pittsburgh Steelers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1960 Pittsburgh Steelers season">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1961 Pittsburgh Steelers season">1961</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">Prime-time</a> results</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football_results" class="mw-redirect" title="NBC Sunday Night Football results"><i>Sunday Night Football</i> results (2006-present)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_on_NBC_announcers" title="List of NFL on NBC announcers">Commentators</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_on_NBC_pregame_show_panelists" title="List of NFL on NBC pregame show panelists">Pregame show panelists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_broadcasters" title="List of Super Bowl broadcasters">Super Bowl</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Pre-AFL–NFL_merger" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-<a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_AFL_Championship_Game_broadcasters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of AFL Championship Game broadcasters (page does not exist)">AFL Championship Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_AFL_All-Star_Game_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of AFL All-Star Game broadcasters">AFL All-Star Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NFL_Championship_Game_broadcasters" title="List of NFL Championship Game broadcasters">NFL Championship Game</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1982_CFL_season" title="1982 CFL season">1982 CFL season</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Announcerless_game" title="Announcerless game">Announcerless game</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Clock_Play" title="Clock Play">Clock Play</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns_relocation_controversy" title="Cleveland Browns relocation controversy">Cleveland Browns relocation controversy</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Holy_Roller_(American_football)" title="Holy Roller (American football)">Holy Roller</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/No_Punt_Game" title="No Punt Game">No Punt Game</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Snowplow_Game" title="Snowplow Game">Snowplow Game</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Thanksgiving_Day" title="NFL on Thanksgiving Day">Thanksgiving Day</a> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Leon_Lett" title="Leon Lett">Leon Lett Blunder II</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_San_Diego_Chargers%E2%80%93New_York_Giants_game" title="1995 San Diego Chargers–New York Giants game">Snowball Game</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Postseason lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Colts%E2%80%93Patriots_rivalry" title="Colts–Patriots rivalry">4th and 2</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Beast_Quake" title="Beast Quake">Beast Quake</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Comeback_(American_football)" title="The Comeback (American football)">The Comeback</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Double_Doink" title="Double Doink">Double Doink</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Epic_in_Miami" title="Epic in Miami">Epic in Miami</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ghost_to_the_Post" title="Ghost to the Post">Ghost to the Post</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Immaculate_Reception" title="Immaculate Reception">Immaculate Reception</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIX" title="Super Bowl XLIX">The Interception</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Philly_Special" title="Philly Special">Philly Special</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Red_Right_88" title="Red Right 88">Red Right 88</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Sea_of_Hands" title="The Sea of Hands">The Sea of Hands</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-<a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a> lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/1958_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1958 NFL Championship Game">The Greatest Game Ever Played</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Heidi_Game" title="Heidi Game">Heidi Game</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football" title="NBC Sunday Night Football">Sunday Night Football</a></i> lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots%E2%80%93New_York_Giants_game" title="2007 New England Patriots–New York Giants game">16–0</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Butt_Fumble" title="Butt Fumble">Butt Fumble</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Colts_Catastrophe" title="Colts Catastrophe">Colts Catastrophe</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers%E2%80%93New_England_Patriots_game" title="2021 Tampa Bay Buccaneers–New England Patriots game">Brady's first game against the Patriots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Los_Angeles_Chargers%E2%80%93Las_Vegas_Raiders_game" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Los Angeles Chargers–Las Vegas Raiders game">Final game of the 2021 season</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/AFC_Championship_Game" title="AFC Championship Game">AFC Championship Game</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1970_AFC_Championship_Game" title="1970 AFC Championship Game">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_AFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1971 AFC Championship Game">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_AFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1972 AFC Championship Game">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_AFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1974 AFC Championship Game">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_AFC_Championship_Game" title="1975 AFC Championship Game">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_AFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1976 AFC Championship Game">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_AFC_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 AFC Championship Game">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_AFC_Championship_Game" title="1995 AFC Championship Game">1995</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Drive_(American_football)" title="The Drive (American football)">The Drive</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Freezer_Bowl" title="Freezer Bowl">Freezer Bowl</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Fumble" title="The Fumble">The Fumble</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivalries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cowboys%E2%80%93Eagles_rivalry" title="Cowboys–Eagles rivalry">Cowboys–Eagles rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowboys%E2%80%93Giants_rivalry" title="Cowboys–Giants rivalry">Cowboys–Giants rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bears%E2%80%93Packers_rivalry" title="Bears–Packers rivalry">Bears–Packers rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Packers%E2%80%93Vikings_rivalry" title="Packers–Vikings rivalry">Packers–Vikings rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravens%E2%80%93Steelers_rivalry" title="Ravens–Steelers rivalry">Ravens–Steelers rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commanders%E2%80%93Cowboys_rivalry" title="Commanders–Cowboys rivalry">Commanders–Cowboys rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colts%E2%80%93Patriots_rivalry" title="Colts–Patriots rivalry">Colts–Patriots rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Brady%E2%80%93Peyton_Manning_rivalry" title="Tom Brady–Peyton Manning rivalry">Tom Brady–Peyton Manning rivalry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC_music" title="NFL on NBC music">Music</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Colby_(musician)" title="John Colby (musician)">John Colby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Edelman" title="Randy Edelman">Randy Edelman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tesh" title="John Tesh">John Tesh</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football" title="NBC Sunday Night Football">Sunday Night Football</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Williams" title="John Williams">John Williams</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Hate_Myself_for_Loving_You" title="I Hate Myself for Loving You">I Hate Myself for Loving You</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Jett" title="Joan Jett">Joan Jett</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Somethin%27_Bad" title="Somethin' Bad">Somethin' Bad</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miranda_Lambert" title="Miranda Lambert">Miranda Lambert</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Faith_Hill" title="Faith Hill">Faith Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pink_(singer)" title="Pink (singer)">Pink</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrie_Underwood" title="Carrie Underwood">Carrie Underwood</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NFL Championship</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1955_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1955 NFL Championship Game">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1956 NFL Championship Game">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1957 NFL Championship Game">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1958 NFL Championship Game">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1959 NFL Championship Game">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1960 NFL Championship Game">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1961 NFL Championship Game">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1962 NFL Championship Game">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_NFL_Championship_Game" title="1963 NFL Championship Game">1963</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">AFL Championship</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1965_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1965 American Football League Championship Game">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1966 American Football League Championship Game">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1967 American Football League Championship Game">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1968 American Football League Championship Game">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_American_Football_League_Championship_Game" title="1969 American Football League Championship Game">1969</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Super Bowl</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-<a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_I" title="Super Bowl I">I</a> (<a href="/wiki/1966_NFL_season" title="1966 NFL season">1966</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_III" title="Super Bowl III">III</a> (<a href="/wiki/1968_NFL_season" title="1968 NFL season">1968</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a> package carrier<br />(<a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_season" title="1970 NFL season">1970</a>–<a href="/wiki/1997_NFL_season" title="1997 NFL season">1997</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_V" title="Super Bowl V">V</a> (<a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_season" title="1970 NFL season">1970</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_VII" title="Super Bowl VII">VII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1972_NFL_season" title="1972 NFL season">1972</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_IX" title="Super Bowl IX">IX</a> (<a href="/wiki/1974_NFL_season" title="1974 NFL season">1974</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XI" title="Super Bowl XI">XI</a> (<a href="/wiki/1976_NFL_season" title="1976 NFL season">1976</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIII" title="Super Bowl XIII">XIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XV" title="Super Bowl XV">XV</a> (<a href="/wiki/1980_NFL_season" title="1980 NFL season">1980</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVII" title="Super Bowl XVII">XVII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1982_NFL_season" title="1982 NFL season">1982</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XX" title="Super Bowl XX">XX</a> (<a href="/wiki/1985_NFL_season" title="1985 NFL season">1985</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXIII" title="Super Bowl XXIII">XXIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1988_NFL_season" title="1988 NFL season">1988</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXVII" title="Super Bowl XXVII">XXVII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1992_NFL_season" title="1992 NFL season">1992</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXVIII" title="Super Bowl XXVIII">XXVIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1993_NFL_season" title="1993 NFL season">1993</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXX" title="Super Bowl XXX">XXX</a> (<a href="/wiki/1995_NFL_season" title="1995 NFL season">1995</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXII" title="Super Bowl XXXII">XXXII</a> (<a href="/wiki/1997_NFL_season" title="1997 NFL season">1997</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football" title="NBC Sunday Night Football">Sunday Night Football</a></i> era<br />(<a href="/wiki/2006_NFL_season" title="2006 NFL season">2006</a>–present)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIII" title="Super Bowl XLIII">XLIII</a> (<a href="/wiki/2008_NFL_season" title="2008 NFL season">2008</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVI" title="Super Bowl XLVI">XLVI</a> (<a href="/wiki/2011_NFL_season" title="2011 NFL season">2011</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIX" title="Super Bowl XLIX">XLIX</a> (<a href="/wiki/2014_NFL_season" title="2014 NFL season">2014</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LII" title="Super Bowl LII">LII</a> (<a href="/wiki/2017_NFL_season" title="2017 NFL season">2017</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LVI" title="Super Bowl LVI">LVI</a> (<a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_season" title="2021 NFL season">2021</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LX" title="Super Bowl LX">LX</a> (<a href="/wiki/2025_NFL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2025 NFL season">2025</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Super_Bowl_LXIV&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Super Bowl LXIV (page does not exist)">LXIV</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=2029_NFL_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2029 NFL season (page does not exist)">2029</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_halftime_shows" title="List of Super Bowl halftime shows">Halftime shows</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_V_halftime_show" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Bowl V halftime show">V (1970)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XX_halftime_show" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Bowl XX halftime show">XX (1985)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXIII_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XXIII halftime show">XXIII (1988)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXVII_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XXVII halftime show">XXVII (1992)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXX_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XXX halftime show">XXX (1995)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVI_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XLVI halftime show">XLVI (2011)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIX_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl XLIX halftime show">XLIX (2014)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LII_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl LII halftime show">LII (2017)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LVI_halftime_show" title="Super Bowl LVI halftime show">LVI (2021)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pro Bowl</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1952_Pro_Bowl" title="1952 Pro Bowl">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_Pro_Bowl" title="1953 Pro Bowl">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_Pro_Bowl" title="1958 Pro Bowl">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_Pro_Bowl" title="1959 Pro Bowl">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Pro_Bowl" title="1960 Pro Bowl">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_Pro_Bowl" title="1961 Pro Bowl">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_Pro_Bowl" title="1962 Pro Bowl">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_Pro_Bowl" title="1963 Pro Bowl">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Pro_Bowl" title="1964 Pro Bowl">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_Pro_Bowl" title="1965 Pro Bowl">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Pro_Bowl" title="1972 Pro Bowl">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_Pro_Bowl" title="1974 Pro Bowl">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Pro_Bowl" title="2009 Pro Bowl">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Pro_Bowl" title="2012 Pro Bowl">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Pro_Bowl" title="2013 Pro Bowl">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Pro_Bowl" title="2014 Pro Bowl">2014</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NFL Honors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="1st Annual NFL Honors">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="4th Annual NFL Honors">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="7th Annual NFL Honors">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Annual_NFL_Honors" title="12th Annual NFL Honors">2023</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nbcsports.com/nfl">NBC Sports - NFL News</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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NBC pregame show">The <i>NFL on NBC</i> pregame show</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Football_Night_in_America" title="Football Night in America">Football Night in America</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NFL_Network" title="NFL Network">NFL Network</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_NFL_Network" title="List of programs broadcast by NFL Network">List of programs</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_AM" title="NFL AM">NFL AM</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_Classics" title="NFL Classics">NFL Classics</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_GameDay" title="NFL GameDay">NFL GameDay</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_Replay" title="NFL Replay">NFL Replay</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_Total_Access" title="NFL Total Access">NFL Total 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This Week</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Highlights" title="Pro Football Highlights">Pro Football Highlights</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>ESPN <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_Live" title="NFL Live">NFL Live</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_Primetime" title="NFL Primetime">NFL Primetime</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>Nickelodeon <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Nickelodeon" title="NFL on Nickelodeon">NFL on Nickelodeon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_Slimetime" title="NFL Slimetime">NFL Slimetime</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_programming_on_Nickelodeon" title="Super Bowl programming on Nickelodeon">Super Bowl programming</a></li></ul></li> <li>Prime Video <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Prime_Video" title="NFL on Prime Video">NFL on Prime Video</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>ITV <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_NFL_Show/NFL_This_Week" title="The NFL Show/NFL This Week">The NFL Show</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>Sky <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Sky_Sports" title="NFL on Sky Sports">NFL on Sky Sports</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Radio broadcast<br />partners</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Compass_Media_Networks" title="Compass Media Networks">Compass Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Football_Sunday_on_ESPN_Radio" title="Football Sunday on ESPN Radio">ESPN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_USA_Radio_Network" title="Sports USA Radio Network">Sports USA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Westwood_One_Sports" title="NFL on Westwood One Sports">Westwood One</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct networks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mutual_Broadcasting_System" title="Mutual Broadcasting System">Mutual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC_Radio" title="NFL on NBC Radio">NBC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Secondary partners</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Absolute_Radio_90s" title="Absolute Radio 90s">Absolute Radio 90s</a> (UK)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL%2B" title="NFL+">NFL+</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SiriusXM_NFL_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="SiriusXM NFL Radio">Sirius XM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TSN_Radio" title="TSN Radio">TSN Radio</a> (Canada)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_NFL_broadcasters" title="List of current NFL broadcasters">Local broadcasters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" 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Network">Jaguars Radio Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Raiders_Radio_Network" title="Las Vegas Raiders Radio Network">Las Vegas Raiders Radio Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_England_Patriots_Radio_Network" title="New England Patriots Radio Network">New England Patriots Radio Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_Radio_Network" title="New York Giants Radio Network">New York Giants Radio Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_New_York_Jets_broadcasters" title="List of New York Jets broadcasters">New York Jets broadcasters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers_Radio_Network" title="Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network">Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titans_Radio_Network" title="Titans Radio Network">Titans Radio Network</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Broadcasters<br />by event</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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href="/wiki/List_of_cable_television_National_Football_League_over-the-air_affiliates" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cable television National Football League over-the-air affiliates">Cable TV NFL over-the-air affiliates</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Broadcast policies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_television_blackout_policies" class="mw-redirect" title="National Football League television blackout policies">Blackout policies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_Broadcasting_Act_of_1961" title="Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961">Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Network</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" 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