Before Peyton Manning’s neck injury became a huge issue during the NFL Lockout, this game between traditional AFC powers Pittsburgh and Indianapolis appeared to be a big glamour matchup for NBC’s Sunday Night Football. But with Indy struggling at 0-2 without Manning, this appears to be a rather pedestrian matchup. In fact, NBC isn’t saying much about the game, providing rather generic copy for its press release.
But the game is on NBC’s schedule and it can’t flex any contests until Week 10 of the season. So this is what NBC Sports is saying about Pittsburgh-Indy. And we get a blurb tacked on about Hispanic Heritage Month.
BEN ROETHLISBERGER AND THE STEELERS TRAVEL TO INDIANAPOLIS TO TAKE ON THE COLTS ON SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
COVERAGE BEGINS WITH FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA AT 7 PM ET
NFL Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month – Game Broadcast on Telemundo in Select MarketsNEW YORK – Sept. 21, 2011 – Ben Roethlisberger and the defending AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers travel to Indianapolis to take on the Colts on Sunday Night Football.
Calling Steelers-Colts will be six-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his 26th season as the voice of the NFL’s premier primetime package; 12-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who won the Emmy for outstanding event analyst in both of his seasons in the Sunday Night Football booth; and sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, in her first season on SNF.
Coverage begins Sunday with Football Night in America at 7 p.m. ET with 22-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Costas hosting the program live from inside the stadium. Costas is joined on site by Michaels and Collinsworth for reaction to the afternoon games.
Dan Patrick co-hosts Football Night from Studio 8G at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza studios and is joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy, two-time Super Bowl winner Rodney Harrison, Peter King of Sports Illustrated and Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com. Alex Flanagan will report from Soldier Field in Chicago on the Packers-Bears game.
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NFL, TELEMUNDO & NBC SPORTS TEAM TO CELEBRATE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
TELEMUNDO STATIONS TO BROADCAST STEELERS-COLTS GAME: The NFL, Telemundo and NBC Sports have teamed for a unique broadcast for viewers of this week’s Sunday Night Football game. Telemundo will broadcast the game – its first of three Sunday Night Football games this season — on its Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco/San Jose and Washington stations.
NBC Sports’ Sunday Night Football production team will partner with Deportes Telemundo to broadcast the game from Indianapolis in two languages – English and Spanish. Deportes Telemundo will provide its own Spanish-speaking award-winning commentators, Jessi Losada, Rene Giraldo and Edgar Lopez.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Telemundo will air an NFL Hispanic Heritage Month special on September 25 at 7:30 PM ET leading in to the Sunday Night Football broadcast.
Two more press release posts before I shut down the blog and get ready for Blogs with Ball 4.
