List of NFL on NBC commentator pairings

= List of NFL on NBC commentator pairings = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See also: List of NFL on NBC announcers

The first name that's slated is the play-by-play man while the color commentator or commentators are slated second.

2000s

 * Beginning in 2006, NBC returned to the NFL for the first time since 1997 (when they last had the AFC package) to broadcast Sunday night games. NBC replaced ESPN as the Sunday Night broadcaster.

2006

 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Andrea Kremer
 * 2) Tom Hammond/Cris Collinsworth/Bob Neumeier (Wild Card Saturday)

2007

 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Andrea Kremer
 * 2) Tom Hammond/Joe Theismann/Bob Neumeier (Wild Card Saturday)

2008

 * 1) Al Michaels/John Madden and Cris Collinsworth/Andrea Kremer
 * 2) * During Week 7 (Seattle at Tampa Bay), Cris Collinsworth substituted for Madden. Madden was given an off-week to alleviate a hectic coast-to-coast bus travel schedule which would have taken him from Jacksonville to San Diego to Tampa in 3 weeks.
 * 3) Tom Hammond/Joe Theismann/Tiki Barber (Wild Card Saturday)

2009

 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Andrea Kremer
 * 2) Tom Hammond/John Madden/Tiki Barber (Wild Card Saturday)
 * Cris Collinsworth was promoted to the lead color commentator slot. This marks the second time Collinsworth had replaced Madden as a lead commentator, getting bumped to the top slot on Fox coverage alongside Joe Buck and Troy Aikman following Madden's departure for Monday Night Football.
 * The announcement of John Madden as one of the color commentators for the Wild Card Saturday playoff games marked Gibbs' return to NBC's NFL coverage; where following his first retirement from the Redskins, he served as an occasional commentator on regional coverage during the 1993 NFL season before becoming a panelist on NFL Live!/NFL on NBC between the 1994 season until NBC lost NFL coverage after Super Bowl XXXII.

2010

 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Andrea Kremer
 * 2) Tom Hammond/John Madden/Alex Flanagan (Wild Card Saturday)
 * Beginning with the 2010 season NBC elected to use the Notre Dame football broadcast team as its second Wild Card Weekend broadcast team, as Mike Mayock and Alex Flanagan joined Tom Hammond.

2011

 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Michele Tafoya
 * 2) Tom Hammond/John Madden/Alex Flanagan (Wild Card Saturday)
 * 3) Dan Hicks/John Madden/Doug Flutie/Alex Flanagan/Randy Moss (Pro Bowl)

2012
Dan Hicks and John Madden filled in for Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth on the preseason matchup between the Indianapolis Colts and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Michaels took some time off during that game after anchoring NBC's daytime coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Hicks also replaced Tom Hammond on the Notre Dame broadcast team at this point.
 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Michele Tafoya
 * 2) Dan Hicks/John Madden/Alex Flanagan (Wild Card Saturday)

2013

 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Michele Tafoya
 * 2) Dan Hicks/John Madden/Alex Flanagan (Wild Card Saturday)
 * This was the last wildcard playoff doubleheader on NBC for the foreseeable future. From 2014 onward, ESPN will air 1 wild card playoff game. NBC will only air 1 wildcard playoff game and will air 1 divisional playoff game.

2014-2015

 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Michele Tafoya

2016–2017
Original plans were for Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michelle Tafoya to call Sunday nights while Tirico, Gruden and Heather Cox called Thursday night contests, but the NFL vetoed the plans and demanded the same broadcast team call both packages.
 * 1) Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth/Michele Tafoya (Sunday Night Football) or Heather Cox (Thursday Night Football)
 * 2) Mike Tirico/Jon Gruden/Michele Tafoya (NFL preseason games)