NBC Sports to Present SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL First Regular Season Game, 9/14
By: Caryn Robbins Sep. 10, 2014
Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears (0-1) travel to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., to take on Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers (1-0) on Sunday Night Football, in the first NFL regular-season game at Levi's Stadium. Coverage begins with FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA at 7 p.m. ET on NBC.
SNF ON TWITTER: twitter.com/SNFonNBC - Using tweets, photos, Vines and videos, @SNFonNBC provides unique content with SNF talent, production crew and NFL players. Additionally, Michele Tafoya will provide real-time tweets from the sideline throughout the game.
SNF ON INSTAGRAM: Going into its fourth season, SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL gives the SNF fan a look at photos through the filters of Instagram. Fans get a look inside the production trucks, the locker rooms, on the field and around each SNF city. In addition, fans get an exclusive look through Instagram of what life is like on the sideline, as our social media producer captures the best photos of Sunday night and posts in real time.
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL BUS NBC Sports Group's SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL bus returns this season to travel the country visiting the host cities of all 17 SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL games, NFL Kickoff 2014, and NBC's Wild Card and Divisional Playoff games. The SNF bus will also be on-site all week leading up to the crowning of the SUPER BOWL XLIX champion in Arizona on Sunday, February 1, 2015. The bus arrives in each city two to three days prior to the game, making stops at local landmarks and events before heading to the game site on Sunday. In each city fans will have the opportunity to interact with America's most-watched primetime television show via exclusive memorabilia, and an interactive 55-inch Touch screen housing social media elements, photos and video. As the SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL bus makes its way from NFL Kickoff to the Super Bowl, it travels with a replica Vince Lombardi Trophy that will be available for fan photos. From the life-size NFL player and Carrie Underwood images on the bus' exterior, and the Vince Lombardi Trophy and "Photo Bomb" wall featuring NFL players on the inside, fans will have numerous opportunities to interact and share memories from the bus. NBCSPORTS.COM/FOLLOWSNF Fans can digitally follow the SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL bus at NBCSports.com/FollowSNF. The site includes an interactive map of where the bus has been, and where it's traveling next, allowing fans to take a virtual #SNFRoadTrip, which began at NFL Kickoff on Sept. 4 and continues all the way to the ultimate Sunday night of them all, SUPER BOWL XLIX #SB49. In addition, fans can also participate in a tweet CONTEST to show their team pride and see which team is leading in mentions each week. A dedicated producer will collect photos and create videos of the bus' travels and the cast of characters it encounters along the way. Life on the road with the SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL bus will be featured on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, as well as aggregated on NBCSports.com/FollowSNF using #SNFRoadTrip. "THE SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL" For the third consecutive season NBC Sports presents "The Sunday Night Football," a custom-made football from Wilson, which will travel with the SNF crew all season. Fans of SNF on Facebook and Twitter can keep up with "The Sunday Night Football" on the SNF Facebook page, follow its path through each city and recommend where it should visit while in town. In addition, fans can visit NBCSports.com/FollowSNF. At the end of each SNF game, "The Sunday Night Football" will be signed by the player of the game. Photos, video and stories around "The Sunday Night Football" and its travels will live on Facebook, Twitter, and SNF All-Access. To help fans continue the conversation about the SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL bus and "The Sunday Night Football," NBCSports.com/FollowSNF will aggregate tweets and Instagram posts utilizing #SNF. THE FEED will include NBC Sports' NFL experts, players, teams, and others talking about SNF and their interactions with the bus and the ball. NFL TURNING POINT SEASON PREMIERE TONIGHT AT 10 P.M. ET ON NBCSN The fourth season of the Emmy Award-nominated NFL Turning Point, NBCSN's weekly NFL show co-produced by NFL FILMS and hosted by Football Night in America's Dan Patrick, debuts tonight at 10 p.m. ET. Tonight's episode breaks down the Denver Broncos season opener against the Indianapolis Colts, and includes spotlight features on Falcons - Saints and Ravens - Bengals, a film study with Chicago Bears WR Brandon Marshall, and a wired for sound segment with New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan and Houston Texans head coach Bill O'Brien. Each week Turning Point will be built around select NFL matchups from the previous weekend, and will focus on the crucial "turning point" moments that ultimately defined the outcome of each game. The show will also feature anatomy-of-a-play type segments and long form, Game-of-the-Week style narratives that include the pre-game and post-game access, sideline sounds, jaw-dropping cinematography and incredible storytelling that is synonymous with NFL Films. PRO FOOTBALL TALK ON NBCSN WEEKNIGHTS, 5:30 P.M. ET Pro Football Talk, NBCSN's daily NFL studio show co-hosted by Mike Florio and Paul Burmeister, airs at 5:30 p.m. ET every Monday through Friday. In addition to diving deep on the most topical NFL stories of the day, PRO FOOTBALL TALK provides all-encompassing coverage of the NFL, including the most current news and analysis, engaging features, thought-provoking debates, and interviews with a wide variety of NFL newsmakers. The show regularly features a roster of NBC Sports football commentators who share a combined eight SUPER BOWL titles and 169 seasons of NFL experience, including Cris Collinsworth, Tony Dungy, Hines Ward, Doug Flutie, Jason Taylor, Takeo Spikes, Brian Westbrook, Ross Tucker, Jon Ritchie and longtime NFL coach Kevin Gilbride. In addition, Mike Ryan, who boasts 26 NFL seasons of athletic training experience, appears on select telecasts to provide perspective on injuries and sports medicine. FANTASY FOOTBALL LIVE ON NBCSN TUESDAY - THURSDAY NIGHTS, 6:30 P.M. ET Building off of Yahoo! Sports' popular Sunday live streaming show of the same name, Fantasy Football Live is a live and on-demand, multi-platform, fantasy football program that airs Tuesday through Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Fantasy Football Live on NBCSN combines the best fantasy football expertise from Yahoo! Sports and NBC Sports, including unique metrics from Yahoo! Sports' leading fantasy football platform, and full integration with NBC Sports' premier fantasy sports information site, Rotoworld.com. Hosted by NBC Sports' Dave Briggs, Fantasy Football Live features a roster of Yahoo Sports, NBC Sports and Rotoworld fantasy analysts, including Rotoworld's Kay Adams, as well as Yahoo Sports' Brad Evans, Brandon Funston and Andy Behrens. NBCSN SUNDAY SPORTS REPORT - SUNDAY NIGHTS, 11:30 P.M. ET NBCSN Sunday Sports Report, a new, weekly, one-hour program that showcases the news and highlights of the sports properties that are carried by NBC Sports Group, airs every Sunday night at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Hosted by Liam McHugh, NBCSN SUNDAY SPORTS REPORT goes in-depth into the high-profile sports properties that primarily air on NBC and NBCSN, including the Olympics, NFL, NASCAR, NHL, Premier League, golf, Triple Crown horse racing, Notre Dame Football, Formula One, INDYCAR and more. NBCSN Sunday Sports Report originates from Studio 3 at NBC Sports Group's International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn. During the NFL season, Rodney Harrison and Mike Florio will join McHugh in studio. In addition, Cris Collinsworth, Hines Ward, Josh Elliott and Michele Tafoya will report from the site of each SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL game. NBC SPORTS RADIO NBC Sports Radio will surround the 2014 NFL season with daily coverage on 439 radio affiliates, highlighted by McNabb and Malone; an all-sports show that leverages the unique perspective of two former NFL quarterbacks, and Safety Blitz with Rodney Harrison; featuring three-time All Pro and two-time Super Bowl-winner Rodney Harrison. To listen to a live stream of NBC Sports Radio, or find your local affiliate, visit www.NBCSportsRadio.com NBC SPORTS REGIONAL NETWORKS NBC Sports Regional Networks, which serve top NFL markets such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Houston and San Francisco, will surround the 2014 NFL season with in-depth news, analysis and original programming on the teams that matter most in more than 43 million U.S. households. NFL KICKOFF WEEKEND GAMES ON NBC RANK AS #1 AND #2 PRIMETIME SHOWS FOR WEEK NBC averaged 25.3 million viewers for two NFL Kickoff Weekend games - Seattle's 36-16 win over Green Bay on Thursday, and Denver's 31-24 victory over Indianapolis on the debut of SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - which ranked as primetime television's two most-watched programs last week, according to official national data released by The Nielsen Company. The Seahawks' 20-point victory in the Thursday "NFL Kickoff" game was the most-watched primetime show of the week (Sept. 1-7), with an average of 26.9 million viewers. The SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL opener, in which Denver jumped out to a 24-0 first-half lead, averaged 23.7 million viewers and ranked as primetime television's #2 show of the week. NBC has averaged more than 25 million viewers on NFL Kickoff Weekend (two-game average) for five consecutive seasons. NBC Sports Live Extra's live streams of "NFL Kickoff" and SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL generated records as the highest-trafficked non-Olympic, non-Super Bowl, single-game live stream in NBC Sports Digital history (Green Bay-Seattle), and the most-consumed SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL opener (Indianapolis-Denver). Thursday's Packers-Seahawks consumption of more than 25 million minutes on NBC Sports Live EXTRA topped the prior non-Olympic, non-Super Bowl record set in last year's thrilling Week 12 "Manning-Brady XIV" SNF game, won 34-31 in overtime by New England (21.3 million). Fans consumed nearly 19.2 million minutes of Sunday night's Colts-Broncos game, which is the best-ever for an SNF opener, and up 60% vs. last year's SNF opener. 2014 SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL NBC will broadcast 19 primetime NFL games during the 2014 regular season including NBC's annual Thanksgiving night game, featuring the heated NFC West rivalry between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers. 2014 NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SCHEDULE DATE WEEK MATCHUP Sun. Sept. 14 Week 2 Chicago Bears at San Francisco 49ers Sun. Sept. 21 Week 3 Pittsburgh Steelers at Carolina Panthers Sun. Sept. 28 Week 4 New Orleans Saints at Dallas Cowboys *Sun. Oct. 5 Week 5 Cincinnati Bengals at New England Patriots *Sun. Oct. 12 Week 6 New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles *Sun. Oct. 19 Week 7 San Francisco 49ers at Denver Broncos *Sun. Oct. 26 Week 8 Green Bay Packers at New Orleans Saints *Sun. Nov. 2 Week 9 Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers *Sun. Nov. 9 Week 10 Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers *Sun. Nov. 16 Week 11 New England Patriots at Indianapolis Colts *Sun. Nov. 23 Week 12 Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants **Thurs. Nov. 27 Week 13 Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers *Sun. Nov. 30 Week 13 Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs *Sun. Dec. 7 Week 14 New England Patriots at San Diego Chargers *Sun. Dec. 14 Week 15 Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles *Sun. Dec. 21 Week 16 Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals *Sun. Dec. 28 Week 17 TBA *Flex Week ** Thanksgiving Night Game Follow "Sunday Night Football" on Twitter @SNFonNBC Become a fan of "Sunday Night Football" on Facebook at: Facebook.com/SNFonNBC Follow "Sunday Night Football" on Instagram @snfonnbc Visit SNF All-Access at: http://snfallaccess.nbcsports.com/
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