Coming up on Sunday night, NBC will air the Chicago Bears at New York Giants game live from the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. It all starts with Football Night in America at 7 p.m. Eastern time followed by SNF.
In addition to the game, the NFL will use the national platform to raise the profile of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We have the press release from NBC Sports.
BEARS MEET GIANTS IN ONE OF NFL’S OLDEST RIVALRIES ON “SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” – COVERAGE BEGINS WITH “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” AT 7 PM ET
NFL Celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month
“The Bears…are starting to take to this new offense by Mike Martz.” – “Football Night’s” Tony Dungy; “It really comes down to those players making better decisions and performing better.” – “Football Night’s” Rodney Harrison on Giants
NEW YORK – Sept. 29, 2010 – The Chicago Bears (3-0), the lone undefeated team in the NFC, and New York Giants (1-2), who first met in New York in 1925, renew their 85-year-old rivalry this week on “Sunday Night Football.”
Calling Bears-Giants will be six-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), who is in his 25th season as the voice of the NFL’s premier primetime package; 11-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who last year, his first in the SNF booth, won the Emmy for outstanding event analyst; and sideline reporter Andrea Kremer about whom TV Guide said is “one of TV’s best sports correspondents.”
Coverage begins with “Football Night in America,” at 7 p.m. ET Sunday with Bob Costas, who won the outstanding studio host Emmy last year, hosting live from inside the stadium. Dan Patrick will co-host “Football Night” from NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza studios joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach and Emmy-nominated Tony Dungy, two-time Super Bowl winner Rodney Harrison, and Sports Illustrated’s Peter King. Alex Flanagan will report from Lincoln Financial Field on the Redskins-Eagles game and the return of Donovan McNabb to Philadelphia.
DUNGY ON BEARS: “The Bears have moved the football and are starting to take to this new offense by Mike Martz.”
HARRISON ON GIANTS: “Lack of discipline. The penalties. Veteran players not coming through. Eli Manning making all types of bad decisions. They need to play better. I know Tom Coughlin blames himself but it really comes down to those players making better decisions and performing better.”
DUNGY ON GIANTS: “They’ve played two poor games in a row. They are playing at home. They’ve got to come out and play better. They’ve got to play up to their talent level…They are doing uncharacteristic things: 11 penalties, three turnovers. Not doing the things you have to do to win.”“A CRUCIAL CATCH”
For Bears-Giants, “Sunday Night Football” will capture in-stadium efforts supporting “A Crucial Catch.” The National Football League will support October’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with its largest on-field presence and a national screening-reminder and fundraising campaign. In collaboration with the American Cancer Society, the initiative, called “A Crucial Catch: Annual Screening Saves Lives,” encourages annual mammograms for women over 40. Beginning on October 3 and continuing throughout the month, NFL Breast Cancer Awareness games will feature:
- Game balls with pink ribbon decals used for every down
- Players wearing pink cleats, wristbands, gloves, chin straps, sideline caps, helmet decals, eye shield decals, captains’ patches, sideline towels and quarterback towels
- Pink coins used for the coin toss
- Pink sideline caps for coaches and sideline personnel and pink ribbon pins for coaches and team executives
- Officials wearing caps with pink ribbons, pink wristbands and pins and using pink whistles
- On-field pink ribbon stencils and A Crucial Catch wall banners
- Pink goal post padding in end zones
And that will conclude this NFL preview. An ESPN press release is next.
