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Since Notre Dame is on the road at North Carolina this week, Irish fans will watch the game on ABC. But that doesn’t mean the Notre Dame on NBC broadcast crew won’t be calling football over the weekend. In fact, they’ll be on the call for when the NFL’s oldest rivalry is renewed at Lambeau Field:
NBC’s Notre Dame broadcast trio of Mike Tirico-Tony Dungy-Kathryn Tappen is excellent, and they’ll be calling Sunday night’s Bears-Packers game on NBC. Michaels/Collinswort/Tafoya have Sunday night off but #Bears fans are in good hands for @SNFonNBC.
— JJ Stankevitz (@JJStankevitz) November 23, 2020
Irish fans who really like Mike Tirico in particular should appreciate him while they have the chance. Conventional wisdom is that he’s being groomed to eventually take over Sunday Night Football full-time whenever Al Michaels retires. He knocked the Irish’s upset win over Clemson out of the park, but nothing less should have been expected from him.
In the meantime, football fans who don’t watch Notre Dame will get to experience a crew they haven’t heard in 2020. Nothing less than the best is expected when covering Irish football on television, but we already knew that, didn’t we?