NFL’s 100th Season Kicks Off Thursday Night On NBC

NFL’s 100th Season Kicks Off This Thursday Night On NBC With Storied Rivalry As Aaron Rodgers & Green Bay Packers Visit Khalil Mack & Chicago Bears

Coverage Begins with Football Night in America at 7:30 p.m. ET; Followed by 8:20 p.m. ET Kickoff

Tom Brady and Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots Host Ben Roethlisberger and Pittsburgh Steelers in Season Debut of Sunday Night Football – Coverage Begins with Football Night in America at 7 p.m. ET on NBC

NBC Sports’ season-long coverage of the 2019 NFL season begins with NFL Kickoff 2019 this Thursday, Sept. 5, at Chicago’s Soldier Field, when four-time Pro Bowler Khalil Mack and the Bears host two-time NFL MVPAaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers in an NFC North showdown. Kicking off the NFL’s historic 100th season, Thursday’s game marks the 199th overall meeting in the Bears and Packers’ storied rivalry. Coverage begins at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC, followed by kickoff at 8:20 p.m. ET.

Sunday Night Football – America’s No. 1 primetime television show for an unprecedented eight consecutive years – debuts on Sunday, Sept. 8, as Super Bowl LIII MVP Tom Brady and the New England Patriots begin their title defense against Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first-ever matchup between two franchises with six Super Bowl titles. Coverage begins with Football Night in America – the most-watched studio show in sports – at 7 p.m. ET on NBC. Steelers-Patriots kicks off at 8:20 p.m. ET.

Calling both matchups is Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his record 34th season as the voice of the NFL’s premier primetime package; 16-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth; and three-time Emmy Award-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya. Three-time Super Bowl referee and SNF rules analyst Terry McAulay joins Michaels and Collinsworth in the booth.

NBC’s coverage of NFL Kickoff 2019 and Sunday Night Football is led by executive producer Fred Gaudelli and director Drew Esocoff. SNF has won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Series in 10 of the last 11 years and is the only show to win 10 Sports Emmys in the category.

NBC’s coverage of NFL Kickoff 2019 begins with a special edition of Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports since its debut in 2006, at 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, featuring studio host Mike Tirico. He will be joined on-site from Soldier Field by co-host Liam McHugh, Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy, two-time Super Bowl champion Rodney Harrison, NFL Insider Mike Florio and former NFL quarterback Chris Simms. Kathryn Tappen will report from the NFL’s Kickoff activities from Grant Park in Chicago. Football Night begins every Sunday at 7 p.m. ET, and is produced by Rob Hyland and directed by Mike Sheehan.

For the seventh consecutive year, country music superstar Carrie Underwood will star in the NBC SNF show open, and welcomes Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Joan Jett, who makes an appearance during Underwood’s performance. The all-new show open, which debuts ahead of Sunday’s Patriots-Steelers, nods to the first NBC SNF open in 2006 featuring a new rendition of the original “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” music.

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