The Eagles Face The Cowboys on SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, 12/12

 

Mike Vick leads the first-place Philadelphia Eagles into Dallas to face their division rivals the Cowboys, winners of three of their last four, in an NFC East matchup on "Sunday Night Football."

Calling Eagles-Cowboys will be six-time Emmy Award-winner Michaels (play-by-play), who is in his 25th season as the voice of the NFL's premier primetime package; 11-time Emmy Award-winner Collinsworth, who last year, his first in the SNF booth, won the Emmy for outstanding event analyst; and sideline reporter Andrea Kremer about whom TV Guide said is "one of TV's best sports correspondents."

Coverage begins with "Football Night in America" at 7 p.m. ET Sunday with Bob Costas, who won the outstanding studio host Emmy last year, hosting live from inside the stadium. Dan Patrick will co-host "Football Night" from NBC's 30 Rockefeller Plaza studios joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach and Emmy-nominated Dungy, two-time Super Bowl winner Harrison, and Sports Illustrated's Peter King. Alex Flanagan will report from Soldier Field in Chicago on the Patriots-Bears game.

"Football Night" (7:30-8:15 pm) is averaging 8.2 million viewers through its first 13 weeks, its most ever for that time frame and up nine percent vs. 2009's 7.5 million viewers.

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DUNGY ON EAGLES: "Philadelphia's playing great offensively. Their defense, I've been worried about them. They're giving up big plays. They haven't been able to stop the pass and Dallas has a lot of weapons."

HARRISON ON COWBOYS: "The Cowboys are a different team under Jason Garrett. They're 3-1. They're playing a lot tougher. They're a lot more balanced. He put on pads during the week and he says, 'We're making a statement. We're going to dominate on the ground.' That's what they did against the Colts...In the last minutes of the game, usually, we see these guys falling apart. Now they're starting to win, starting to believe we can win these close games at the end."

DUNGY ON COWBOYS: "They're coming up with takeaways. Their defense is coming up with the turnovers they didn't get when Coach Phillips was there."

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