Remember when NBC Sunday Football was good?

[PanthersATL]

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[Pup McBarky]

Yes, I do. It was best when it was on Monday night, called Monday Night Football, and had Dandy Don and Howard Cosell. Those were the days.

[Moo Daeng]

I've never liked the Sunday night football show.

[panthers55]

I don't care about anything but the game. Honestly are any of the shows all that great?

[Lemory]

I actually like Dan Patrick and Tony Dungy on the pregame. Al Michaels is fine but ive never been a huge fan of Collinsworth. It would be great when Greg retires if he took Collinsworth's spot but i doubt that would happen. 

[07579394]

When you play good,you will get night games.

[Mistuh Jones]

I miss the 90s sports on NBC. Those were the friggin best 

[Mistuh Jones]

https://youtu.be/r-uSWAJd9GE

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

3 hours ago, 07579394 said:

When you play good,you will get night games

Or if you are from a major market.  And lets be real..thats a much larger factor than merely "playing good".

[Sasquatch]

7 hours ago, Pup McBarky said:

Yes, I do. It was best when it was on Monday night, called Monday Night Football, and had Dandy Don and Howard Cosell. Those were the days.

That wasn't NBC

[KSpan]

2 hours ago, Sasquatch said:

That wasn't NBC

No, but it was the national broadcast. MNF used to be the nationally-televised network game and cable networks ESPN, TNT) came into the fold later, with SNF and MNF swapping channels for the 2006 season. Guess it's worked out well enough for the NFL.

[Anybodyhome]

It's rarely been watchable on NBC.

Now... go back to the ABC days and that's when it was special.

[Sgt Schultz]

I don't know that Sunday Night Football has ever been all that good.  Back in the Gifford/Cosell/Meredith days of MNF, it was an event.  It was a huge prime-time show.  Of course, there were three major networks and each market had a couple of independent channels back then.

SNF has never approached that status, and in fairness maybe never could.  Now, with MNF, SNF, TNF, endless cable channels, and equally endless streaming options, all three prime-time games are shadows of what MNF was in its hey-day.  The Sporting News ran a story last December on MNF that called it "Monopoly to Monotony."

I think the problems now are that the prime-time game production errs on the side of entertainment over football, almost like WWE without a scripted outcome.  Then you add that the league has often managed to make the game borderline unwatchable despite the increase in physical talent on the field.  I thought they recognized the error in their ways when they redefined a catch from something that took two physicists and a mechanical engineer ten minutes to sort out using HD slo-mo replays to something that could be reasonably well called on the field, but I am not so sure anymore.

Some writer said two years ago that if the league wanted to improve its product, the first step would be to get rid of the Competition Committee.  I can not argue with that. 

[CPcavedweller]

15 hours ago, Pup McBarky said:

Yes, I do. It was best when it was on Monday night, called Monday Night Football, and had Dandy Don and Howard Cosell. Those were the days.

Gruden was good, maybe the best. 

It would be great for Romo to move to Sunday Night Football so we can get rid of the monotonous Chris Collinsworth. His voice and time in the box has run it's course; he sounds bored and I get bored watching the game because of his overall lack of enthusiasm.