Curated playlist
NFL broadcasts
- NFL on ESPNThe NFL let ESPN air its 1980 draft despite doubts anyone would watch. ESPN reached just 4 million homes then.
- NFL on FoxFox, then known for cartoons, took NFL football away from CBS. CBS had held the NFC for nearly four decades.
- NFL on Prime VideoAmazon aired an NFL game in 2020 that no national broadcast network carried. It averaged 4.8 million viewers.
- NFL on Westwood One SportsLesley Visser became the first woman to be an analyst on an NFL broadcast.
- NFL on CBSCBS interrupted an NFL playoff game to show Apollo 8 live on its way to the Moon. It got approximately 3,000 complaints.
- ManningcastThe Manningcast is ESPN2's alternate Monday Night Football show hosted by Peyton and Eli Manning.
- NBC Sunday Night FootballNBC's Sunday Night Football topped American Idol as network TV's most-watched show in 2011-12.
- Monday Night FootballMillions of Americans first heard that John Lennon had been shot during a Monday Night Football game.
- NFL on NBCNBC once cut away from a close football game to air the film Heidi.
- NFL on ABCThe NFL on ABC once carried news that had nothing to do with football. During a game between the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots on the 8th of December 1980, announcer Howard Cosell told the audience that former Beatle John…