And we finish our Sunday NFL previews with NBC Sports. The Sunday Night Football game this week will be in the Great Northwest between the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks. Here’s what NBC is saying.
COLIN KAEPERNICK AND DEFENDING NFC CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS TRAVEL TO SEATTLE TO TAKE ON RUSSELL WILSON AND SEAHAWKS ON “SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL”
Coverage Begins with Football Night In America at 7 p.m. ET on NBC
NBC Sports Live Extra to Live Stream 49ers – Seahawks on NBCSports.com/liveextraSTAMFORD, Conn. – September 10, 2013 – Colin Kaepernick and the defending NFC Champion San Francisco 49ers (1-0) travel to CenturyLink Field in Seattle Wash., to take on Russell Wilson and the Seahawks (1-0) on Sunday Night Football. Coverage begins with Football Night In America at 7 p.m. ET on NBC.
Both teams enter this important NFC West matchup at 1-0 and look to keep their momentum going early in the season.
Calling 49ers-Seahawks is seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his 28th season as the voice of the NFL’s premier primetime package; 14-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who has won the Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst in each of his four seasons in the Sunday Night Football booth; and Emmy Award-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.
NBC’s coverage of Sunday Night Football is led by Emmy Award-winning producer Fred Gaudelli and Emmy Award-winning director Drew Esocoff. Sunday Night Football has won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Series for five consecutive years.
Football Night in America, the most-watched pre-game show in sports, is hosted by 25-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Costas, who will report from CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Wash. Costas will be joined on site by Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, and two-time Super Bowl winner Hines Ward.
Dan Patrick co-hosts Football Night from NBC’s famed Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Patrick will be joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy, two-time Super Bowl winner Rodney Harrison, Peter King of Sports Illustrated, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk on NBCSN and NBCSports.com, and longtime NFL front office veteran and former NFL Executive of the Year Scott Pioli.
In addition to Sunday Night Football and Football Night in America, NBC Sports Group’s NFL coverage also includes digital content and social media extensions that are available online, as well as NFL-related shoulder programming on NBCSN.
PREVIEW VIDEO:
Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth preview 49ers – Seahawks:
http://www.nbcsports.com/football/nfl/stout-defense-writes-new-chapter-dallas-new-york-rivalry
Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison preview 49ers – Seahawks:
http://www.nbcsports.com/football/nfl/confidence-wilson-will-propel-seahawks
NBC SPORTS LIVE EXTRA
For the sixth consecutive season, the entire Sunday Night Football schedule will be streamed live online. NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops and tablets, will stream all SNF games televised on NBC. The video stream will come directly from NBC’s broadcast of SNF, and will include additional camera angles and interactive features.
NBC Sports Live Extra employs a full HD-quality player, which includes a draggable picture-in-picture feature for any of the online-only cameras, plus full DVR functionality allowing the user to pause, scroll back-and-forth, and review plays in slo-motion.
In addition, online coverage features in-game analysis from the Sunday Night Football and Football Night in America teams as well as fantasy tips from Rotoworld fantasy experts.
For desktops, NBC Sports Live Extra can be accessed at NBCSports.com/liveextra. The NBC Sports Live Extra app for tablets is available at the App Store for iPad and iPod touch, and on select tablet devices within Google Play.
And we’re done here.