NFL Network televises eight live regular season games during the season. They run on either Thursday or Saturday nights, beginning in November.[2] Five games usually air on Thursday nights and three on Saturday nights. As with the games broadcast by ESPN's
Monday Night Football, they are also aired on broadcast TV in the primary media markets of the participating teams, although the home team's market broadcasts the game only if it is sold out 72 hours before game time.
Veteran TV announcer Bryant Gumbel was the play-by-play announcer, and former Fox and current NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth was color commentator for six games. In 2006, Collinsworth missed two Saturday games due to his NBC commitments. Dick Vermeil was his replacement in that event. Collinsworth won the Sports Emmy for best game analyst for his work on the NFL Network telecasts. Marshall Faulk and Deion Sanders replaced Collinsworth when needed in 2007.
These games are also broadcast on Westwood One Radio in the United States and Canada, by Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, and usually by Rogers Sportsnet in Canada (except for games involving the Buffalo Bills, which are instead carried on CITY-TV).
In August 2007,
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The 2007 schedule began on Thanksgiving night, November 22, with a game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta's Georgia Dome. Gumbel and Collinsworth returned as the booth announcers.
On April 11,
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Bob Papa, who is also the radio voice of the New York Giants on WFAN, has announced the games since 2008. Until the 2008 season, Cris Collinsworth also announced on the network. He has since been hired to replace John Madden on NBC games,
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