NBC Sports presents the first-ever primetime game featuring opponents with records of 6-0 or better, as Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers (6-0) visit Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos (6-0) at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Colo., on NBC's Sunday Night Football. Coverage begins with FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA - the most-watched weekly studio show in sports - at 7 p.m. ET tonight, Nov. 1.
Rodgers and Manning are the only two quarterbacks in NFL history to average at least two touchdown passes per game, with Rodgers leading (2.08; 241 touchdowns in 116 games) and Manning second (2.05; 537 touchdowns in 262 games). Defensively, the Packers have allowed a league-low 16.8 points per game, while the Broncos defense ranks second at 17 points per game. The teams also rank first and second in quarterback sacks, with the Broncos racking up 26 and the Packers close behind with 23.
Manning and Rodgers have faced each other just once before in their careers, with Green Bay winning 24-14 against the Manning-led Indianapolis Colts at Lambeau Field in 2008. The two quarterbacks have combined to win five of the last seven NFL MVP awards.
Packers-Broncos concludes a stretch of three consecutive SNF matchups featuring at least one undefeated team - a first this late in the season in the 10 years of NBC's Sunday Night Football. The 6-0 Patriots defeated the Colts 34-27 on Oct. 18, and the 6-0 Panthers defeated the Eagles 27-16 on Sunday.
Calling Packers-Broncos are seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his record 30th season as
THE VOICE of the NFL's premier primetime package; 16-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who has won the Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst in each of his six seasons in the
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL booth; and two-time Emmy Award-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.
NBC's coverage of
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL is led by Emmy Award-winning producer Fred Gaudelli and Emmy Award-winning director Drew Esocoff.
Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports, is hosted by 26-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Costas, who will report from Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Costas will be joined on site by Collinsworth, Tafoya, and two-time
SUPER BOWL winner Hines Ward.
Dan Patrick co-hosts Football Night from
NBC Sports Group's International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn., joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy, two-time
SUPER BOWL winner Rodney Harrison, Mike Florio of
PRO FOOTBALL TALK on
NBCSN and NBCSports.com, and NFL Insider Peter King. Kathryn Tappen will report from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on the Seahawks-Cowboys game.
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