Bob Costas will NBC Sports' six hours of Super Bowl XLVI pre-game coverage with a live report from Georgia Street in downtown Indianapolis on Sunday, February 5, 2012, beginning at noon. NBC Sports' will feature live team hotel and sideline reports, player features, interviews and X's and O's analysis, according to a February 2, 2012, press release from NBC Sports.
NBC Sports’ Sunday Night Football team includes Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya. The Football Night in America team of Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Peter King and Mike Florio will contribute taped interviews and live on-site commentary and analysis. Live reports from the team hotels come from Liam McHugh, Alex Flanagan and Randy Moss. Doug Flutie will appear in field-set segments. The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore will provide reports on the weather and event atmosphere. Super Bowl Sunday entertainment lineup of NBC
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Joining the NBC Sports' team as guest analysts will be Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward. The two Super Bowl MVPs who each played in last year’s game. Ward, who has played in three Super Bowls and won two, was named MVP of Super Bowl XL when he made five catches for 123 yards and a touchdown in the Steelers 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks. Rodgers, who is an NFL MVP candidate this season, passed for 304 yards and three touchdowns in last year’s Super Bowl, helping the Packers defeat Ward’s Steelers, 31-25, and earning him the MVP award.
Following is a summary NBC Sports’ Super Bowl XLVI pre-game coverage:
Randy Moss will provide updates from the Patriots team hotel, while Alex Flanagan will report from the Giants hotel. They will also report on their respective teams’ arrival at the stadium.
Doug Flutie (playing quarterback), Cris Collinsworth (wide receiver), and Rodney Harrison (defensive back) will analyze the play of Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz and Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, acting out the X’s and O’s on the field of Lucas Oil Stadium.
During the two weeks leading up to the game, NBC Sports conducted extensive interviews with Super Bowl XLVI players and coaches. The pre-game will feature some of the interviews that were in the special hosted by Bob Costas, including interviews with Tom Brady, Eli Manning, Tom Coughlin,Victor Cruz, Bill Belichick and Aaron Hernandez. Al Michaels visits with Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who has dedicated this season to his wife Myra, who passed away in 2011. Bob Costas interviews NFL Commissioner Bob Goodell. Bob Costas: Live from Super Bowl special
NBC Sports will visit the hometowns of five of Sunday’s featured players, now hometown heros, to speak with people who made an early impact on the Super Bowl stars. They visit the hometowns of Eli Manning and Jason Pierre-Paul of the New York Giants, and Tom Brady, Aaron Hernandez and Wes Welker of the New England Patriots. They also interview the parents/mentors of the quarterbacks, Eli Manning and Tom Brady.
There will also be a segment on New Orleans Saints standout Steve Gleason, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2011. Gleason famously blocked the punt that led to an early touchdown the night the Saints returned to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. Peter King chronicles the challenges facing Gleason and his family while battling the debilitating muscular disease.
NBC Sports visits the home of New England defensive lineman Vince Wilfork, and discovers the surprising personalities behind one the fiercest players in the league.
The coverages include story of Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka, and his grandfather, Benedicto Kiwanuka, the first prime minister of Uganda, and a man assassinated by the regime of notorious dictator Idi Amin while he served as Amin’s chief justice in 1972.
Additional pieces will air on wide receivers Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz of the Giants, and tight end Rob Gronkowski and punter Zoltan Mesko of the Patriots.
Kicking off NBC Sports’ six hours of pre-game coverage at Noon ET is NFL Films’ Road to the Super Bowl. The film explores how the New York Giants and New England Patriots advanced to Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
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