News: ESPN Prepared To Pay An Insane Amount To Buy Sunday Night Football Rights Away From NBC

Asklesko said:

SNF was originally on ESPN. It's goin' back home.

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It's not a done deal. The NFL has never signed TV contracts 2 1/2 years before the current ones expire.They have in the past done them about a year before they expire. Next they saw how the viewership dropped when MNF went from an over the air network ABC to a cable network ESPN so I'll bet if NBC's offer is close or the same as ESPN's NBC will keep SNF. Also ESPN has said that they will want the best games of the week being able to select the games they want and NBC doesn't do that. NBC does have the ability starting in week 10 to flex a different game if the scheduled game is a pair of losing teams with no chance of making the playoffs but that's different than ESPN that pretty much wants the best game every week. I also think that will end up with lower bids from FOX and CBS when their contracts are up if ESPN gets SNF because some of the games they normally have ESPN would be taking from them and they won't like that so they will basically tell the NFL you just short changed the league. Lastly the sportswriter for the Post who wrote this article didn't quote or even say that the NFL is close to agreeing to this. That article states that Disney has said this could be done by the end of the year, Disney isn't the NFL.
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gjkoeppen said:

MNF uses their original theme still and listen to Joan Jett's song, the music the tune and you should hear the SNF original theme. I'm guessing that NBC had to pay Jett something to use her tune. Even the SNF theme now is just a change of that original theme, but it's different enough that it doesn't sound like Jett's song.
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OK I did listen to that song, and your right, sounds like the same song just changed the lyrics.
But having country singers sing a rock song is a little bizarre? Should have just let joan do it with the new lyrics.

ESPN trying to cling on to force people to keep throwing their $ away on cable...the nfl is probably about the only thing keeping people tuned into ESPN

DandyDon52 said:

OK I did listen to that song, and your right, sounds like the same song just changed the lyrics.
But having country singers sing a rock song is a little bizarre? Should have just let joan do it with the new lyrics.

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Pink was who originally sang the SNF theme. BTW Underwood's first couple of songs she recorded were more like rock than country. Somebody convinced her she could be a bigger star doing country so she switched.
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tm1119 said:

ESPN trying to cling on to force people to keep throwing their $ away on cable...the nfl is probably about the only thing keeping people tuned into ESPN

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ESPN does a lot of college ball, college basketball and MLB too, but the NFL is the biggest game in town so it really helps. I think having the NFL helped get the other sports for them.
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Mr_437 said:

Espn is trash, NFL will lose in the long run. We'll see how smart they are.

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They plan on putting it on ABC

Ugh, please no. ESPN sucks. I hardly ever watch MNF because the format is just a snooze-fest.

SNF on the other hand I absolutely love. I get stoked when the Boys get the SNF slot.

WoodysGirl said:

No... the author has been working for the site since 2015. The article was published today.

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This! LLLOOLLL, what are you doing ATL?

rocyaice said:

I agree. I'm cool with Collinsworth and Al Michaels.

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+1
it's gonna be totally different and lesser with Collins and Al. ..insight and style is so superior to what struggling ESPN has tried to bring to their
Monday addition. .

Would ESPN try to secure Collins/Michaels duo to continue as is as the Sunday Night play by play/color analyst package ?

conner01 said:

They plan on putting it on ABC

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Cool, but can they import some other company's broadcast team?

Mr_437 said:

Cool, but can they import some other company's broadcast team?

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They own disney, ABC and ESPN
Maybe we get one from each
Have Mickey Mouse as sideline reporter

conner01 said:

They own disney, ABC and ESPN
Maybe we get one from each
Have Mickey Mouse as sideline reporter

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Mickey and Rowdy together would amp up the entertainment value.

Vanilla2 said:

A bidding war will help guarantee your opinion matters less

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But would a bidding war and eventual winning bid change the revenue for the NFL, and thus help the salary cap? With the down year wew are supposed to have, its could be a big help in getting Dak and others signed.

No more BOOGERS!

Echo9 said:

But would a bidding war and eventual winning bid change the revenue for the NFL, and thus help the salary cap? With the down year wew are supposed to have, its could be a big help in getting Dak and others signed.

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so it’ll keep the status quo and Jerry can just keep cranking out 8-8’s?

Vanilla2 said:

so it’ll keep the status quo and Jerry can just keep cranking out 8-8’s?

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And the alternative? Do you not want us to have more cap space?