Tag: Sunday Night Football

ESPN’s exclusive coverage of of the Wild Card games featured nine games from October 7-9 and averaged 2.8 million viewers.

"Here's what you'd like. You're still working. You're going in and working. You never lay it up. Every week, Cris works his ass off."

"He goes 'I think Cris is usually smart in and his analysis is good but..." Hughes said before Cataldi interrupted by shouting "No he's not! No he's not!", he reiterated. "He's not smart!"

"One of the things that I worried about was that I came from Bleacher Report and is NBC going to try to curtail my personality a little bit…sometimes I like to swear on my podcast and do stuff like that and they’ve really allowed me to be me which I really appreciate.”

"They think they can wait as long as Friday, and I assume that NBC can get the trucks up and everything in place and ready to televise the game Sunday night."

The integrations that viewers will see will include a weekly segment hosted by Chris Simms and Matthew Berry which will highlight storylines and betting odds for the Sunday Night Football game and real-time betting odds on the scoring ticker during FNIA as well.

"(Mike) Tirico doesn't do the opening monologue. So what am I going to do?" Collinsworth asked. "I could lean out, but it'd be stupid. I don't know what you do. Do you just do it for effect"

"Collinsworth had either lost his voice before the game or was in the process of losing it during the game. Whichever is the case, the sports media noticed."

While there are plenty of familiar faces returning, the on-air personalities will bring a new mix of unique experience and perspective to each broadcast, leading up to Sunday Night Football with Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth and Melissa Stark.

“I understand there’s going to be a transition period of time, but we’ve already spent a lot of time together, obviously, getting ready for this season,” Collinsworth said.