On Sunday, NBC airs the less-than-attractive New York Football Giants at DC NFL Matchup. Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing explains why the game wasn’t flexed out despite the records of both teams.
Another factor was NBC’s Thanksgiving Night game in Baltimore. The Sunday Night Football production truck could easily drive the 32½ miles from Baltimore to the Stadium Formerly Known as Jack Kent Cooke in Landover, MD in less than an hour to set up for Sunday’s game.
Al Michaels doesn’t have to take his usual private plane ride from Baltimore to DC. He, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya will be on hand to call the game.
Bob Costas will be on-site in Landover and he’ll be joined by former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward for Football Night in America as well as the halftime show.
Here’s the NBC preview for Sunday.
WASHINGTON HOSTS NEW YORK GIANTS ON SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
Sunday’s Coverage Begins with Football Night In America at 7 p.m. ET
STAMFORD, Conn. – November 27, 2013 – NBC’s Thanksgiving weekend coverage continues on Sunday night when Robert Griffin III and Washington host Eli Manning and the New York Giants, on Sunday Night Football. Coverage begins with Football Night in America at 7 p.m. ET on NBC.
Calling Giants-Washington 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 coordinating 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 the stadium, and will be joined on-site by Michaels and Collinsworth.
On Sunday night, Costas will report from FedEx Field in Landover M.D., and will be joined on-site by Hines Ward.
Dan Patrick will co-host Football Night from NBC’s famed Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Patrick will be joined in studio by Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Peter King of Sports Illustrated, and 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.
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