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unusual facts about NFL Network


Rick Sirvaitis

He has been a consultant to such clients as the NFL Network, the Television Bureau, Gemstar-TV Guide International and Google TV Ads among others and has most recently been retained as an Entrepreneur in Residence for Constellation Ventures.


Amber Theoharis

In September 2012, Theoharis left MASN to work for NFL Network on NFL Total Access, where she replaced longtime co-host, Kara Henderson, who left the network after nine years to start a family.

Arena Football League on NFL Network

NFL Network held the broadcast television rights the revived Arena Football League from 2010 to 2012.

Clint Longley

When the NFL Network did a "Top 10 One-Hit Wonders" list that included Longley, Steve Sabol said he last heard that Longley had ended up selling carpet remnants out of the back of a van in Marfa, Texas.

Jim Lynch

In 2006, Lynch was interviewed for the NFL Network documentary America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions chronicling the 1969 Kansas City Chiefs AFL and World Championship season.

KZJO

KZJO aired Monday Night Football from 2006 (the MNF broadcast switch from ABC to ESPN) to 2012 when Belo outbid Tribune for rights to the MNF and NFL Network Thursday Night Football Seahawks games, which aired on sister station KONG that year.

Lindsay Rhodes

Soto joined NFL Network in the fall 2008 and has worked as an anchor on NFL Total Access, a reporter for NFL Network Now and a field and in-studio reporter for NFL GameDay Morning.

Mike Pereira

Pereira appeared on the NFL Network show, NFL Total Access, during the "Official Review" segment, to discuss key calls made during the previous week's games with host Rich Eisen every Wednesday during the season.

Mock draft

Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay of ESPN and Mike Mayock of the NFL Network are considered television experts on the NFL Draft.

National Football League on Canadian television

In addition to Monday Night Football, TSN broadcasts NBC Sunday Night Football and the NFL Network's package.

North–South All-American Game

NFL Network, which was scheduled to televise the contest if it was played in 2007, replaced the canceled game with a rebroadcast of Super Bowl XXXII.

Paul Burmeister

Paul Burmeister (born March 10, 1971) is an is currently Studio Host and Play by Play announcer for NFL Network and NBC Sports, hosting such shows as Path to the Draft, Around the League Live, and NFL Total Access.

Ricky Watters

On a 2008 episode of NFL Top 10, a documentary series produced by the NFL Network, Watters was ranked #7 out of the top 10 players yet to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Ryan Kalil

Kalil has interests in the film industry, having made claymation films as a child and worked with fellow USC-alumnus Will Ferrell on a football training spoof for the NFL Network.

Sterling Sharpe

He continues to work on the NFL Network where during NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football schedule, Sharpe, alongside analysts Kurt Warner, Jim Mora, Brian Billick, Jay Glazer and host Fran Charles, can be seen on Thursday Night Kickoff from Los Angeles.

Tim Van Patten

Tim graduated from Massapequa High School in 1977, in the same class as Brian Setzer, lead guitarist of the Stray Cats and leader of The Brian Setzer Orchestra, and Brian Baldinger, professional football player and executive with the NFL Network.

Torry Holt

Holt joined NFL Network in 2010 as an analyst on the network’s signature show, NFL Total Access, as well as other NFL Network shows and specials.

Trenni Kusnierek

She has previously worked at WDJT-TV (2001-2002), FSN Pittsburgh (2003-2007) and FSN Wisconsin (2008), and as a reporter and former studio host for the MLB Network as well as some work for the Big Ten Network and the NFL Network.


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Adam Schefter

Before joining NFL Network Schefter appeared frequently on ESPN's Around the Horn as a substitute for Woody Paige, who was based in Denver at the time.

Craig Shemon

In addition to Yahoo Sports Radio, he also served as a talk show host for Fox Sports Radio and has called play-by-play for NFL on Fox, NFL Europe on NFL Network, and college football and basketball for the Big Ten Network.

Dan Hellie

Hellie now works for the NFL Network, where he co-anchors NFL Total Access alongside Amber Theoharis.

Jamie Dukes

During NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football schedule, Dukes, Paul Burmeister and Bucky Brooks can be seen providing complementary coverage on NFL.com/LIVE: Thursday Night Football.

Dukes joined NFL Network in 2006 as an analyst on NFL Total Access and NFL GameDay Scoreboard alongside Paul Burmeister and Tom Waddle.

Nicole Zaloumis

Prior to working at NFL Network, In 2004, She was the weekend sports anchor at WRC-TV in Washington, DC, she also was the host of a weekly sports show on the Washington Redskins.

Point After

In 2008, NFL Network cancelled this program and replaced it with Team Cam, which has a similar format but which also includes contributions from beat writers and bloggers.

Rich Eisen

Eisen also remains host of NFL Total Access and NFL GameDay Highlights, as well as NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football pregame, halftime and postgame shows and special on-location coverage from league events such as Kickoff, Pro Football Hall of Fame, NFL Scouting Combine, NFL Draft and Super Bowl.