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NBC Sunday Night Football began airing on the 6th of August 2006, with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. This marked a significant shift in NFL broadcasting rights after decades of ABC and CBS coverage.
Maria Taylor, Chris Simms, Jason Garrett, Devin McCourty, Mike Florio, and Matthew Berry broadcast from the studio while Jac Collinsworth, Tony Dungy, and Rodney Harrison report from the game site. Tirico succeeded Michaels following Super Bowl LVI in February 2022.
The Washington Redskins versus Dallas Cowboys game on the 30th of December 2012 was the highest-rated Sunday Night Football broadcast ever, earning 30.426 million viewers and a household rating of 12.7. This made it the most watched regular-season primetime game in 16 years.
Singer-songwriter Pink reworked the lyrics of the Joan Jett song I Hate Myself for Loving You into a Sunday Night Football theme song titled Waiting All Day for Sunday Night. Pink also performed the theme song for the 2006 season before Faith Hill replaced her in 2007.
During the 2011, 12 season, Sunday Night Football became the first sports program to hold the position as Nielsen's most-watched program on American network television during the year. The show repeated this feat three years running, beginning with the 2013, 14 season.