FOX Sports Sets Broadcast Lineup for Its First-Ever Pro Football Hall of Fame Game
Special Edition of FOX NFL SUNDAY Live from Canton Celebrates Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award Winner Joe Buck Along with Jimmy Johnson and Charles Woodson’s Induction into Pro Football Hall of Fame
LOS ANGELES – FOX Sports marks its first-ever broadcast of the Hall of Fame Game on Thursday, Aug. 5, when the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys face off at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio. Live game coverage begins at 8:00 PM ET with a special edition of FOX NFL SUNDAY live on-site from the stadium at 7:00 PM ET on FOX.
On the call for the game is the NFL’s longest-tenured on-air duo, 2020 Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award winner and Emmy Award-winning play-by-play announcer Joe Buck together with Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman. Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi will serve as the reporters, with rules analysis from Mike Pereira.
Prior to the game, FOX NFL SUNDAY, the No. 1 NFL pre-game show the last 27 consecutive seasons, featuring Curt Menefee, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, Michael Strahan and Jay Glazer, will be on-site in Canton for a special edition that will also include honorees Buck and Charles Woodson, along with Aikman and other luminaries.
The one-hour show will showcase features and noteworthy moments, including the replay of when Pro Football Hall of Fame President David Baker surprised Johnson on-air during FOX’s Divisional Round halftime show with the news he had been elected to the Hall of Fame. Additionally, the show will look back to Sept. 17, 2020, the night Buck learned on-air during halftime of the THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL game that he had won the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.
“We always say FOX Sports is football, but FOX Sports also is family,” said Eric Shanks, CEO and Executive Producer, FOX Sports. “And our family is incredibly honored to share this monumental moment of honoring Joe, Jimmy, Charles and our good friend and former teammate John Lynch as we kick off the NFL season broadcasting our first-ever Hall of Fame Game.”
From its humble beginnings in 1963 to the present day, the Pro Football Hall of Fame pays tribute to the talents and triumphs of pro football’s greatest legends. Today, the Hall of Fame reaches tens of millions of additional football fans each year through broad outreach, such as nationally televised events, an in-depth website, educational and youth programs, social media, traveling exhibits and special events held around the country.
