ESPN Sunday Night Football
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This article is about broadcasts of National Football League games broadcasted from 1987-2006 on Sundays. For games broadcasted on Sundays after 2006, see NBC Sunday Night Football. For games not broadcasted on ESPN during this time, see NFL on TNT. For other uses, see Sunday Night Football. For games broadcasted on ESPN after 2006, see Monday Night Football.
ESPN Sunday Night Football was the ESPN cable network's weekly television broadcasts of Sunday evening National Football League (NFL) games. The first ESPN Sunday night broadcast occurred on November 8, 1987, while the last one aired on January 1, 2006.
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ESPN Sunday Night Football | |
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Also known as | ESPN Sunday Night NFL (1987ā1997) |
Presented by | Chris Berman Tom Jackson |
Starring | Mike Patrick Joe Theismann Paul Maguire Suzy Kolber see below |
Country of origin | United States |
Production | |
Running time | 180 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ESPN |
Release | November 8, 1987 (1987-11-08) ā January 1, 2006 (2006-01-01) |
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NFL on TNT ABC Monday Night Football |
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Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue credits ESPN with raising the "profile" of the league, by turning "a potential six- or seven-hour television experience into a twelve-hour television experience," factoring in both Sunday Night Football and the network's pregame show Sunday NFL Countdown.