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5 unusual facts about NFL on NBC


Andy Robustelli

After his retirement as an active player, Robustelli spent one year (1965) as a color analyst for NBC's coverage of the American Football League.

Bill Enis

From 1968 until his death, (of a heart attack, at the age of 39), he also called play-by-play of regional NFL and MLB games for NBC, and he worked the sidelines for the network's telecasts of Super Bowl V and Super Bowl VII.

Greg Lloyd, Sr.

He is also well known for using an expletive in a nationally televised interview with NBC's Jim Gray after Pittsburgh defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the 1995 AFC Championship.

Lee Grosscup

His spent one season calling AFL games for NBC before beginning a twenty-year stint as a college football analyst for ABC.

Spencer Ross

Nationally, he has worked for the NFL on NBC, Major League Baseball on CBS Radio, the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Westwood One Radio and as the lead play by play announcer for the 1992 USA Olympic Dream Team with Dick Vitale.


Drew Goodman

Goodman has also had extensive work in football, including stints with the NFL on NBC and the NFL on Fox.

Floyd Little

He briefly served as a Football analyst for NBC in the late 1970s, and was featured as a contestant on Family Feud in the mid-2000s.

Harvey Martin

Following his retirement in 1984, Martin briefly served as an NFL analyst for NBC, participated in the battle royal at WrestleMania 2 (1986) for World Wrestling Federation, and appeared several times in World Class Championship Wrestling and the Global Wrestling Federation as a ringside commentator.

Jay Randolph

Randolph also worked for NBC Sports television in the 1970s and '80s, announcing a wide variety of events including the National Football League, Major League Baseball, college football, college basketball, PGA Tour and LPGA golf, the Professional Bowlers Association, and three Olympic Games and the Breeders' Cup.

Lionel Aldridge

After retiring, Aldridge worked as sports analyst in Milwaukee and for Packers radio and NBC until manifesting paranoid schizophrenia in the late 1970s.

Super Bowl Sunday

The television network carrying the game (either CBS, Fox, or NBC) will usually devote the entire day's programming schedule to the game, with extended pregame shows, NFL Films retrospectives of the previous season, and special versions of the Sunday morning talk shows in the morning and afternoon hours leading into the game.


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NFL on NBC music

Starting in 1995, NBC unveiled a new theme composed by veteran composer Randy Edelman which was used for both their pregame show (now simply titled The NFL on NBC) and during the game.