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ESPN's breakthrough moment occurred in 1987 when it secured a contract with the NFL to broadcast eight games during that year's regular season – all of which aired on Sunday nights, marking the first broadcasts of Sunday NFL primetime games. ESPN's Sunday Night Football games would become the highest-rated NFL telecasts for the next 17 years ...
Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954. Founded by Stuart Scheftel , it was the first magazine with a circulation of over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice.
National television broadcasts of the National Football League (NFL) first aired on ESPN in 1980, when the network broadcast the 1980 NFL draft. ESPN did not air live NFL games until 1987, when it acquired the rights to Sunday Night Football. In 2006, ESPN lost the rights to Sunday Night Football and began airing Monday Night Football (MNF ...
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A new BottomLine ticker was also unveiled that day on four of the five ESPN networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic and ESPNU); the redesigned ticker was quickly dropped, reverting to the old BottomLine design – which had been in use since April 2003 – due to an equipment failure (however, this ticker was operational for the 2009 NFL draft and ...
In 2023, Cover 3 (three players playing the deep zone) was the most common coverage deployed league-wide, per Pro Football Focus data. Cover 1 (one player playing the deep zone) and Cover 3 ...
NFL Matchup is a National Football League (NFL) preview show that airs every week during the regular season and playoffs. At various times, the official name was based on the current sponsor in the format [Sponsor Name] NFL Matchup. Since 2017 it is known simply as the ESPN NFL Matchup, and it is produced utilizing commentary and footage from ...
The secondary "Monday Night Football" role is expanding, per ESPN's latest rights agreement with the NFL signed in 2021. The No. 2 team will now call five games per season that Buck and Aikman don ...