Does anyone remember the year NBC stopped broadcasting NFL Games? I know that CBS picked the deal from the NFL in the 90s and has had it ever since. But what year?

11/9/2005 8:19:08 PM

96 regular season and 97 playoffs/super bowl when elway won his first super bowl

11/9/2005 8:20:59 PM

are you sure? I got money on this one? I thought it was the 98 season.

11/9/2005 8:21:44 PM

1998

I googled it

Quote :

"NBC, meanwhile, had indicated a desire to bid for Monday Night Football rights in 1998, but gave up when the financial stakes skyrocketed. And so, after six decades, NBC, the network that helped define pro football on television, lost its rights to air the NFL, thus marking the beginning of a slow (and continuing) decline for the Peacock network's sports division"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television

[Edited on November 9, 2005 at 8:22 PM. Reason : asdfas]

11/9/2005 8:21:57 PM

im almost positive it was super bowl XXXII in '97

11/9/2005 8:22:57 PM

THANK YOU packbacker, I just made $10 bucks.

11/9/2005 8:23:32 PM

When favre won it, I'm pretty sure that was on FOX

11/9/2005 8:25:13 PM

packers beat patriots in '96 which WAS on fox.

http://money.cnn.com/1998/01/13/bizbuzz/nfl_c/

i was wrong in thinking that super bowl XXXII was nbc's final nfl broadcast, the '97 season was their final season.

11/9/2005 8:27:27 PM