Hines Ward Will Be Joining NBC’s Sunday Night Football Team
Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Hines Ward will be joining NBC Sports and will be part of the Football Night in America team prior to Sunday Night Football. Obviously, they needed a true competitor and someone who played football the right way on the offensive side of the ball to counter Rodney Harrison. According to the release, Ward will also be used in other platforms, including college football studio analyst and as part of NBC Sports Talk with Mike Florio and Peter King.
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May 31st, 2012 at 3:19 PM
and will be part of the Football Night in America
What’s that now 40 people on the damn set?
May 31st, 2012 at 3:20 PM
I hope he cheap shots Peter King.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:21 PM
You would think NBC would have taken a hint that former athletes with a nice smile doesn’t equal TV success.
/tiki barber
//jerome bettis
May 31st, 2012 at 3:23 PM
Someone bring back Emmitt Smith, I was just starting to learn jive.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:23 PM
dan patrick: we’d like to welcome hines ward to the team this year…
hines ward: thanks you stupid mick!
/cheap shot’d
May 31st, 2012 at 3:24 PM
Not everyone could possess OJ Simpson’s natural charm
May 31st, 2012 at 3:25 PM
Another unlikeable guy on a show full of unlikeable guys! Makes me long for the days of NFL Primetime. Yes, even listening to Berman is preferable to Ward, Harrison, Dungy, King, etc. Are they actively trying to alienate viewers?
May 31st, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Please blind-side Rodney HGHarrison! Please blind-side Rodney HGHarrison! Please blind-side Rodney HGHarrison!
May 31st, 2012 at 3:27 PM
Not everyone could possess OJ Simpson’s natural charm
The man could diagram a play with the best of them.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:27 PM
good thing the actual game broadcast is so superior to everything else.
if i had to pick among the bloated asshole pregame shows, i would still pick NBC.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:27 PM
NBC Sports Talk with Mike Florio and Peter King.
I don’t watch pre-game shows. I had no idea Florio and King had a weekly circle jerk.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:31 PM
Hines Ward and Rodney Harrison will be in the same program, providing hard hitting analysis.
I see what you did there.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:32 PM
Please blind-side Rodney HGHarrison! Please blind-side Rodney HGHarrison! Please blind-side Rodney HGHarrison!
not gonna happen, you see the picture above right?
May 31st, 2012 at 3:32 PM
hines ward will be joi…A;WHEJSHEJKLNARJKLSNANV.
/gets blindsided 20 yards away from the play
May 31st, 2012 at 3:33 PM
At this junction, he feels it would not be the prompted for him to share his yellowquant thoughts with everyone.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:34 PM
since this is about bad TV, remember when pam oliver asked singletary about calling dead bill walsh?
May 31st, 2012 at 3:35 PM
If Peter King doesn’t start every single one of his segments this season with the following sentence:
“I talked on the phone with (star player) after the game, and he told me the key to the win was…”
Then I will lop my left ball off.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:36 PM
May 31st, 2012 at 3:38 PM
@Cleet : A couple favorites …
“They did a good job flying around the football field and carowzing the football carrier.”
“You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.”
May 31st, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Pirates release “rising young star Nate McLouth.”
May 31st, 2012 at 3:40 PM
“They did a good job flying around the football field and carowzing the football carrier.”
“You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.”
danhampton is becoming famous round these parts for his malaprops. he likes to use country-style saying but he effs them up
May 31st, 2012 at 3:40 PM
I think it was a KSK post about Emmitt Smith a few years ago that was titled “You have to masturbate the ball down the feel carefully” or something like that. Still makes me laugh.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:41 PM
Emmitt Smiff’s “rites of patches” speech still brings me great joy.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:41 PM
I forget the game, I think it was after the Monday night Panthers-Bucs a few years ago, but he was bad, so bad I was screaming out loud in agony.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:42 PM
With Smith everything was always getting “Blowed out”.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:47 PM
NBC Football coverage sucks period.
Collinsworth is the worst.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Of all the players to fall into the exploding stadium in the TDKR trailer, why — FUCKING WHY — did Ward have to be the one who survives? Nolan should have buried that fucker under 100 feet of rock then shot the scene 10 more times.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Does that raise the teams batting average over .180?
May 31st, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Collinsworth is the worst.
I actually enjoy Collinsworth. Not to be contrarian, but I think he’s one of the better color guys in broadcasting.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Brack and rellow, brack and rellow, brack and rellow
May 31st, 2012 at 3:49 PM
Taco Bells newest drink.
I have actually done this at home and its good.
Code Red with OJ is the best though, tastes like punch.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:49 PM
yea, i like collinsworth. there’s much worse out there…browns fans are saddled with said worse every week.
/you mean all our games don’t start at 1pm this year?
//the fuck is that all about? dont fuck with my routine, nfl…
May 31st, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Did 90% of the regular commenters go on vacation today? It is the same 8 – 10 of us in each thread. Perhaps my Norwegian death metal name has scared folks off.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:51 PM
I think it was a KSK post about Emmitt Smith a few years ago that was titled “You have to masturbate the ball down the feel carefully” or something like that. Still makes me laugh.
This will make your brain explode.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:51 PM
From the tampon or straight out of her gash with a straw?
May 31st, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Been busy planning my trip to the Nurburgring to take a few laps.
/overtbrag
May 31st, 2012 at 3:52 PM
You do know nobody actually fell in a hole and died. It’s just a movie.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:53 PM
it seems like it…and it’s made today suck ass since it was the first in like five months i had a relatively open day at work.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Did 90% of the regular commenters go on vacation today? It is the same 8 – 10 of us in each thread. Perhaps my Norwegian death metal name has scared folks off.
Vez posted that last night I think. My metal name is Dark Temple. Pretty boring.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Rondoman is the one being a contrarian. Collinsworth is the best.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:54 PM
browns fans are saddled with said worse every week.
Randy Cross/ S. Wilcox/ Gannon …
May 31st, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Hey man its just my opinion ok. No biggie. I dont like Collinsworth, you like him, its ok.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:55 PM
it turns out NBC executives elected to bring Hines Ward on board when they realized they’ve had players who were lacking in the blocking skill set on TV.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Just go to KSK, type in Emmitt Smiff and enjoy.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:56 PM
I think football announcing teams in general suck right now.
Collinsworth is just the better of the bad lot.
Cant remember who it is that I like that doesnt get much press, Ian Eagle maybe?
May 31st, 2012 at 3:56 PM
it’s not ok, ok?
May 31st, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Yep, Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts are usually pretty solid.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:58 PM
Fuck you.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:58 PM
Man theres a lot of shitty announcing teams out there.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:58 PM
even brent and herbie have become horrible lately. just horrible.
the only football announcer i truly enjoy listening to is chris spielman do ohio state games when tressel was coaching just because he’d get visibly frustrated as the game went on to the point youd think he was gonna run down there and strap on some shoulder pads himself.
May 31st, 2012 at 3:58 PM
I don’t really care who is in the booth…they don’t bother me much one way or the other.
I am just glad I root for an AFC team, and only on a rare occasion do I have to deal with Cleetus the Fox Robot.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Did 90% of the regular commenters go on vacation today?
Someone in an email thread mentioned that they couldn’t make fun of EIC’s posts as he’s on vacation. They miss his absurdity and trolling for SEO.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:00 PM
my metal name is guilty zombies? FUCK THAT.
That girl’s got something, she’s got a real spark, and that’s all right with me, Al.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:00 PM
that i can agree with. i’d like to take certain aspects of each announcer
Al Michaels for his color ability, jon gruden for his pre-snap reads, collinsworth and jaworski for post play breakdown and mike tirico for his sexual harassment ability to keep things lively.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:00 PM
I could listen to Brad Nessler read the phone book. I bet he smells of rich oak and mahogany.
/swoons
May 31st, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Especially when he was doing sideline work. He was so pumped the cameraman had trouble keeping him in frame.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Very underrated.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:02 PM
oh yea…the look on his face was practically screaming “WE’RE ONLY BEATING THIS SHIT ASS TEAM BY 10 IN THE THIRD? WE’RE OHIO FUCKING STATE…WE SHOULD BE HANGING FIFTY ON GOD DAMNED MINNESOTA.”
May 31st, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Also Applies to Phil Simms.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:04 PM
any michigan guys around…is UM’s golf course public?
May 31st, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Nobody thought Hines Ward would make it as an announcer on FNIA. He was just a 3rd round choice with no ACLs that no one thought would achieve anything.
/his opening monologue
May 31st, 2012 at 4:04 PM
amen.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:05 PM
re: UM golf course…cool pic gallery here.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:05 PM
I’m still waiting for Boomer to make another crack at Marino about his SB ring status and hear Marino drop the “yeah well your kids retarded” bomb.
/he wanted to.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Police or Nanny State?
Sad and pathetic, way to lead the way New York.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Spence – if it’s the same as it used to be the public could play provided that they played with a) student, b) alumni, c) faculty or d) university sponsored organization member.
I love that course – designed by the same guy that helped Bobby Jones lay out Augusta. I’d love to volunteer to take you up there since I qualify as b) in the list above, but the 5 hour drive won’t quite fit into the schedule. Better call Duffy.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Someone in an email thread mentioned that they couldn’t make fun of EIC’s posts as he’s on vacation.
A correlation can not be denied.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:07 PM
i almost feel like this is so vehemently un-american he should be stripped of any leadership position immediately. i couldn’t be more disgusted.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:08 PM
The country’s been following Alabama’s lead with eating habits, time to follow someone else.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:08 PM
why did i have to burn that bridge so thoroughly? DAMNIT.
much appreciated roeth. it looks fucking fun.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Tell me that you don’t get hacked when Fouts is on the mic, that smirky Charger apologist.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:09 PM
and holy shit…tee times are a fucking steal. $40/$50 for guests for a mackenzie course? dear lord.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Fuck that. It’s go time!
May 31st, 2012 at 4:10 PM
And I don’t need some fucking generator to know that my metal name is Suppurated Cadaver Pussy
May 31st, 2012 at 4:11 PM
any michigan people/fans…i will make a deal.
i will deck myself out head to toe in michigan gear and allow you to post video of me singing hail to the victors on the 18th green if you take me to the UM golf course as a guest.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Police or Nanny State?
Sad and pathetic, way to lead the way New York.
If it was up to Bloomberg, it would also be against the law to drink anything in a restaurant cheaper than an ’86 Chateau Couronneau.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Bloomberg is a dick
/lives way upstate
//mocks cityfolk
May 31st, 2012 at 4:12 PM
i’m Necro Corpse King Vlad III, but my friends call me Tim.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Someone in an email thread mentioned that they couldn’t make fun of EIC’s posts as he’s on vacation.
A correlation can not be denied.
Jesus, I phrased that in the dumbest way possible. Basically, they…ah you know what the fuck I mean!
May 31st, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Good point. He hates the rest of the AFC West. In his defense, it likely should have been a personal foul on [insert Raider player].
May 31st, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Yes, because obviously carbonated beverages have been the downfall of our Republic.
/wanking motion
May 31st, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Spence – the twilight rate is fucking awesome. Since Michigan is at the west end of the Eastern time zone, we would tee off around 6 pm and you’d have sufficient daylight until around 10 pm during June/July.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:13 PM
May 31st, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Boomer’s kid isn’t retarded, just has that one lung disease…Marino has one that caught the Jenny McCarthy Vaccination Syndrome though
May 31st, 2012 at 4:15 PM
And I don’t need some fucking generator to know that my metal name is Suppurated Cadaver Pussy
You have that tattooed somewhere, don’t you?
May 31st, 2012 at 4:15 PM
roeth…that sounds great. im extremely jealous.
i love playing at twilight too…unless there’s some slow ass in front of you that’s keeping you from finishing your round while it’s light.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:15 PM
I dont wanna get into it, but this country is turning into a police/nanny state faster than I can believe.
Its fucking sad and pathetic.
This used to be home of the free, land of the brave, now becoming totalitarian. More and more rights taken away and more and more freedoms taken away, cops doing whatever they want with no kind of accountability. Pisses me off.
End rant…
May 31st, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Boomer’s kid isn’t retarded, just has that one lung disease…Marino has one that caught the Jenny McCarthy Vaccination Syndrome though
I thought that was Flutie’s kid.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:17 PM
We’re living in a time of all-time low taxes and there used to be forced military drafts…any so-called glory days of the nation are more myth than reality
May 31st, 2012 at 4:17 PM
And I don’t need some fucking generator to know that my metal name is Suppurated Cadaver Pussy
I did the name generator thing a couple times and combined two names and dropped Cunt and Death and just threw in “gash” for the hell of it.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:17 PM
baylor’s course is badass too, if yall are ever in waco for some reason. completely new course that opened in 2001, its just awesome.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Mayor Bloomberg: “We’re not taking away anybody’s right to do anything,” he told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “We’re simply forcing you to understand.”
Wow, does he know what the fuck he sounds like?
May 31st, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Not a regular poster, but I’ve been caring for my sick wife and 11 month old.
/Fuck me
May 31st, 2012 at 4:18 PM
All those 80s quarterbacks were spawning those kids: Marino, Flutie, Hostetler and one other I think (not to mention Jim Kelly’s sad story)
May 31st, 2012 at 4:18 PM
90% income taxes throughout the 1910′s.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:18 PM
I thought that was Jim Kelly’s kid.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:18 PM
This used to be home of the free, land of the brave, now becoming totalitarian. More and more rights taken away and more and more freedoms taken away
I think someone needs to have a talking to by Louis C.K.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:19 PM
nevermind…there’s more to that stat.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:20 PM
You want to talk about when rights were taken away, I’m amazed there wasn’t a revolution when Prohibition passed
May 31st, 2012 at 4:20 PM
time for another one of those revolution thingies.
seriously though, it’s only going to get worse with corporations putting even more money into politicians pockets so they can make legislation “in the name of freedom for the people” but so the corporations can make more money.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:20 PM
I can’t think of a worse person to put on TV.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:21 PM
Boomer’s son has cystic fibrosis (fucks with your breathing)
Jim Kelly’s late son Hunter had that Krabe’s disease. Doctor’s gave him a year or two..the kid made it 8 years. I still tear up when i watch Kelly’s HOF induction speech where he talks about his son who was still alive at the time
May 31st, 2012 at 4:22 PM
You want to talk about when rights were taken away, I’m amazed there wasn’t a revolution when Prohibition passed
What did Calvin Coolidge say? The business of America is business. The enterprising American spirit saw that there was money to be made and that’s more important than righting a political wrong.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:23 PM
LEGALIZE IT!
May 31st, 2012 at 4:24 PM
Very familiar with this but it has nothing to do with rights taken away and choices being limited.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:24 PM
something about Senegal and hip-hop
/nods at spencer
May 31st, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Good point, which is what makes not legalizing other drugs a head-scratcher since there’s precedent for how criminalization serves as a blessing to the n’er do wells of society
May 31st, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Under the lower lip.
True story, which I am sure I have mentioned but is always worth revisiting: I used to know a dude named Harley Davidson Padilla. That was the actual name his parents gave him. He was a Nazi skinhead (yes, Padilla). He would squirt cans of aerosol up his nose and tool around town on an old BMX. He also had “Fuck the World” tattooed on his lower lip, leading me to the erroneous belief — which I held until a couple of months ago — that that’s what everyone was saying when they wrote FTW. They were just tryin’ to steal some of Harley’s shine.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:26 PM
Black kids used to not be able to choose which school to go to back in your American salad days
May 31st, 2012 at 4:26 PM
i dunno about yall, but im rooting for him.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:26 PM
Very familiar with this but it has nothing to do with rights taken away and choices being limited.
I think he was putting that up more to point out that anyone who complains about the state of the nation is forgetting two things: first, things are pretty awesome at present, and two people of the present time have a tendency to only remember the good things about the past and ignore the unpleasant details.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:26 PM
I didn’t get to report on Cowboys earlier in the week. The greens they have our there are fucking stupid. Pins set on ridges with the ball rolling 10-15 ft away from the pin if you didn’t jar the putt. It was in good shape, at least.
A bit disappointed in the talent working out there given the owners.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:26 PM
You want to talk about when rights were taken away, I’m amazed there wasn’t a revolution when Prohibition passed
Read Last Call. The reason there weren’t riots is because alcohol was cheaper and more plentiful after prohibition went into effect in many parts of the country. It was impossible to enforce.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:26 PM
Man on street: Hey Cal, I have a bet that I can make you say three words.
Calvin Coolidge: You lose.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:27 PM
feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up it’s bobsled time.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:27 PM
A feel-good story definitely.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:27 PM
w00t!
May 31st, 2012 at 4:28 PM
yup. it is kind of sad though, when the government tries to intervene on behalf of the people to prevent companies from selling harmful products to the public people whine about rights to do what they want, or when a government agency tries to prevent the dirty practice of direct advertising and marketing to kids for unhealthy foods the politicians in the pocket of the food and advertising industries kill the initiative.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:28 PM
True story, which I am sure I have mentioned but is always worth revisiting: I used to know a dude named Harley Davidson Padilla. That was the actual name his parents gave him. He was a Nazi skinhead (yes, Padilla). He would squirt cans of aerosol up his nose and tool around town on an old BMX. He also had “Fuck the World” tattooed on his lower lip, leading me to the erroneous belief — which I held until a couple of months ago — that that’s what everyone was saying when they wrote FTW. They were just tryin’ to steal some of Harley’s shine.
One of the better stories I’ve read here in awhile.
FTW!
/that’s for you Harley, shine on your crazy diamond
May 31st, 2012 at 4:28 PM
I think he was putting that up more to point out that anyone who complains about the state of the nation is forgetting two things: first, things are pretty awesome at present, and two people of the present time have a tendency to only remember the good things about the past and ignore the unpleasant details. MS
Yes. Thank you.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:29 PM
lobbyists put the ‘shit’ in initiative.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:32 PM
Harley also showed me firsthand what drinking a lot on Anabuse will do to you. Crazy diamond indeed.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:33 PM
Gerard -
What’s Ol’ Harley up to now?
May 31st, 2012 at 4:35 PM
lemme guess…drifter. no…hobo! yea…hobo.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:35 PM
What’s Ol’ Harley up to now?
lemme guess…drifter. no…hobo! yea…hobo.
I’ll say spree killer.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:36 PM
FUCK…i knew i should’ve picked spree killer.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:36 PM
If he was drinking on Antabuse, I’m assuming he is worm food.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:37 PM
i turn 30 in two weeks. holy hell..
May 31st, 2012 at 4:38 PM
i can kill a box of Spree in minutes
May 31st, 2012 at 4:39 PM
or when a government agency tries to prevent the dirty practice of direct advertising and marketing to kids for unhealthy foods the politicians in the pocket of the food and advertising industries kill the initiative.
take the video controller out of your fat kid’s hands and tell them to go outside for a change.
/problem solved
May 31st, 2012 at 4:39 PM
I’m going to say a lucrative career as a bath salt manufacturer.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:40 PM
i agree, 100%.
and the pizza industry lobbied to have frozen pizza considered a vegetable in school lunches, which is also a problem and just fucked up in general.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Been probably two full decades since I’ve seen the guy but I would put everything I own on KC’s diagnosis.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Holy shit, this is awesome
May 31st, 2012 at 4:44 PM
Holy shit, this is awesome
Do they need someone to see what the plant does when you smoke it?
/spencer
May 31st, 2012 at 4:44 PM
bring on the wooly mammoths and miniaturize them so i can have one.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:49 PM
bring on the wooly mammoths and miniaturize them so i can have one.
Fuck that. I want a veloparaptorsoraus.* That dinosaur that flies and kill kill kills.
*I’ll will make a point of knowing how to spell the name when I get one.