This weekend America will be saturated with pro and college football, an everyday affair

• A complicated weekend – A heavy NFL schedule over Thursday,  Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Lots of football.

• Fox has the doubleheader, CBS goes single. The second game of the Fox twin-bill on Saturday is made of just one game. It’s on Fox, Philadelphia at Dallas, 4:25 PM. A dandy!

• Rich Eisen who excels on the stage as the face of the NFL Network calls a few late season games too. He gets better every season. His voice seams to thicken every season.

• Howie Long is about as well prepared each week for his Fox studio work as I am for a moon shot. Goodness. Some folks are born lucky.

• Judging on my own naked ear, partner Jonathan Vilma is getting Kenny Albert to loosen up a bit. The two now kid on-air sufficiently where there’s an entertainment value to the broadcast. It led to a funny episode when Vilma praised a person randomly, suggesting that Kenny invite this person to his home for Christmas Dinner. “I don’t want to go there,” meaning, I suppose, my guess, my Jewish brothers don’t generally host Christmas dinners. The conversation ended immediately.

Saturday, December 24, 2022

NATIONAL BROADCASTS (These are a mix of subscribers 100% of country, except Amazon and ESPN – subscription)

Thursday Night: Jacksonville @ NY Jets (Amazon)
Al Michael and Kirk Herbstreit

Saturday 8:15 PM ET: Las Vegas @ Pittsburgh (NFLN)
Rich Eisen, Kurt Warner, Steve Mariucci, Michael Irvin also KTNV (ABC 13) Las Vegas; KDKA 2 (CBS) Pittsburgh

Sunday 1 PM ET: Green Bay @ Miami (FOX) (100%)
Joe Davis, Daryl Johnston

Sunday 4:30 PM ET: Denver @ LA Rams (CBS) (100%)
Jim Nantz, Tony Romo or Noah Eagle, Nate Burleson (on Nickelodeon)

Sunday Night 8:20 PM: Tampa Bay @ Arizona (NBC) (100%)

Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth

Monday Night: 8:15 PM:  LA Chargers @ Indianapolis (ESPN) (75 million subscribers)
Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters and Suzy Kolber

CBS SINGLE – Saturday – 1pm

FOX EARLY – Saturday

█ Seattle @ Kansas City, Kevin Kugler, Mark Sanchez 46%/137 stations 

█ NY Giants @ Minnesota, Adam Amin, Mark Schlereth 34%/64 stations

FOX – Saturday 

█ Philadelphia @ Dallas  (4:25 PM) – Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen 100% of country

COLLEGE BALL – BOWL GAMES – NEXT WEEK