Dave’s Football Blog

John Madden is not a cable guy. He just as old school as the major television networks. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that Madden will move to NBC for their Sunday Night Football telecast in 2006.

In case you missed it, NBC paid $600 million to get the Sunday Night Game for six years, starting in 2006. (Satan had no comment.) Meanwhile, Monday Night Football, a staple on ABC for the last 36 years, is moving to ESPN after this season, leaving ABC free to show free to air something special for the ladies on Mondays.

The question now is whether Al Michaels will join Madden. As much as I like Michaels, I hope not. Michaels and Madden are both great announcers, but they’re not very good together. Madden had a rhythm with Pat Summerall that he clearly lacks with Michaels, and it would be good to hear Madden with a different play-by-play guy. Dick Enberg? Mike Patrick? Al Trautwig? Brian Collins?

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