NFL on television in the 1980s

Main articles: National Football League on television, History of the National Football League on television, List of Pro Bowl broadcasters, List of AFC Championship Game broadcasters, List of NFC Championship Game broadcasters, List of Super Bowl broadcasters, History of Monday Night Football, and List of Monday Night Football results (1970–1989)

NBC made history in the 1980s with an announcerless telecast, which was a one-shot experiment credited to Don Ohlmeyer, between the Jets and Dolphins in Miami on December 20, 1980),[1] as well as a single-announcer telecast, coverage of the Canadian Football League[2][3] during the 1982 players' strike (the first week of broadcasts featured the NFL on NBC broadcast teams, before a series of blowout games on the network and the resulting low ratings resulted in NBC cutting back and eventually canceling its CFL coverage), and even the first female play-by-play football announcer, Gayle Sierens (which in its own way set the mold for female sportscasters of today).

  1. ^ Greg Garber (December 12, 2010). "In this NFL game, silence was golden". ESPN. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  2. ^ "CFL on NBC". Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "CFL on NBC in 1982". The506.com.[permanent dead link]