A look at Turner Sports’ flirtations with the National Football League
After a brief foray into the NFL in the 1990s, Turner Sports has been looking to get back into the pro football business.
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NFL reportedly may not open the season with the Patriots next season, could go with Bears-Packers instead
Typically the NFL’s regular season opener is a Thursday spotlight for the defending Super Bowl champions. That tradition...
Colts-Titans flexed to NBC Sunday Night Football in Week 17
Al Michaels announced during Sunday night’s Chiefs-Seahawks game that Colts-Titans in Nashville has been chosen as the Week...
Cris Collinsworth slid in from the left, taking Twitter by surprise
If you’ve watched Sunday Night Football, you know the opening tends to be a close-up on Al Michaels setting...
Cowboys-Eagles brings big overnight ratings for NBC’s Sunday Night Football
SNF ratings are up once again.
After running controversial Trump ad on highly-rated Sunday Night Football, NBCUniversal has now pulled it from their networks
NBC showed this ad to millions Sunday, but then issued a statement Monday saying "After further review we recognize the insensitive nature of the ad and have decided to cease airing it across our properties as soon as possible."
Al Michaels beautifully sneaks in an over/under reference during Chiefs-Bengals SNF
"56.5 is a number that a lot of the fans are thinking about right now."
Last year’s NFL criticism from President Trump seems to have had only a small impact on Sunday Night Football ratings
There was little evidence of Trump's September comments producing a ratings impact, and Trump-favoring markets saw ratings declines at a similar rate to tossup markets.
With legal sports gambling on the rise, Al Michaels will still slide in some late-game spread references
The major networks are all still figuring out how to integrate gambling going forward, but Michaels is way ahead of things.
NBC introduces the ‘Green Zone’ for Sunday Night Football, and it’s heavily mocked on Twitter
The Green Zone shows you how far an offense needs to go to get a first down, because apparently the yellow line wasn't good enough for that.
Mike Tirico will take over for Dan Patrick as studio host on NBC’s Football Night in America
Liam McHugh will take over Sunday Night Football hosting duties from Tirico.
NFL ref Gene Steratore retires, appears set to join CBS, while Terry McAulay also leaves, reportedly for NBC
Steratore worked 15 seasons as an NFL ref and officiated this year's Super Bowl, while McAulay called three Super Bowls in 20 years as a NFL ref.
Sunday Night Football claims top spot in primetime once again
It's a record seventh consecutive year at #1.
Here is the complete primetime schedule for the 2018 NFL season
Set your calendars... now.
The NFL is moving up primetime start times…by as much as 15 whole minutes
That extra 10 minutes of sleep on Sunday night will really make a difference!
