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Encyclopedia > ESPN Sunday Night Football

ESPN Sunday Night Football is a TV program showing National Football League games on Sunday evenings. Currently the show runs on ESPN with Mike Patrick, Joe Theismann, and Paul Maguire in the announcing booth, and hostess/field reporter/co-producer Suzy Kolber. The two teams shown in the game are usually premier NFL teams, or at least teams that were thought to be among the premier teams when the schedule was made before the season. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. ... Sunday is considered either the first or the seventh day of the week, between Saturday and Monday, and the second day of the weekend in some cultures. ... ESPN, formerly an abbreviation of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... Mike Patrick is an American sportscaster. ... Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann. ... Paul Maguire (born August 22, 1938) is a former American football player and current television sportscaster. ... Kolher interviewing Mark Brunell. ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ...


Football in Mexico

On October 2, 2005, Sunday Night Football covered the first ever international regular season NFL game involving the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, Mexico. The Cardinals won the game, 31-14. October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Conference NFC Division West Year Founded 1898 Home Field Sun Devil Stadium City Tempe, Arizona Team Colors Cardinal Red, Black, and White Head Coach Dennis Green League Championships (2) NFL Champions: 1925, 1947 Conference Championships (0) Division Championships (4) NFL West: 1947, 1948 NFC East: 1974, 1975 The Arizona Cardinals... Conference NFC Division West Year Founded 1946 Home Field Monster Park City San Francisco, California Team Colors Metallic Gold, Cardinal Red, and Beige Head Coach Mike Nolan League Championships (5) Super Bowl: 1981 (XVI), 1984 (XIX), 1988 (XXIII), 1989 (XXIV), 1994 (XXIX) Conference Championships (5) NFC: 1981, 1984, 1988, 1989... Estadio Azteca Estadio Azteca is a football stadium in Mexico City. ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) at the center of Mexico, about 2,240 metres (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides...


Future of the Broadcast

Beginning with the 2006 NFL season, NBC Sports will begin airing the Sunday evening games, while Monday Night Football will then move to ESPN. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NBC Sports logo NBC Sports is a division of the National Broadcasting Company, responsible for the televising of many sports events on the network. ... Commemorative Monday Night Football U.S. postage stamp Monday Night Football is a television broadcast of one of the premier National Football League games of the week. ... ESPN, formerly an abbreviation of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...


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