The highlight package to Super Bowl XVIII was voice-over artist John Facenda's final project for NFL Films.

The 1986 offseason's major highlight occurred during the 1986 NFL Draft, when the Redskins picked up future Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien in the sixth round.

TSN also carries some of ESPN's NFL analysis and highlight programs, including NFL Live, Sunday NFL Countdown, and Monday Night Countdown TSN also serves as the main Canadian outlet for TNT's NBA coverage, along with exclusive Canadian rights to the NBA Finals.

The Clutch song " The Incomparable Mr. Flannery " is used in highlight clips during Fox NFL games.

His final voice-over work for NFL Films was the highlight film for Super Bowl XVIII.

One highlight of his professional career was winning the MVP award in World Bowl 2000 while playing for Rhein Fire in NFL Europa, the Fire winning by 13 – 10 over the Scottish Claymores.

The game-winning field goal in the 1950 NFL championship was the highlight of Groza's long career.

About the same time, it was used in a highlight package on the television show, " Virginia Tech Sports Today " as a song bed, outlining 2001 NFL Draft prospects for Hokie football players that were either seniors, or made themselves eligible for the draft.

NFL Films has used many of his other compositions for its Super Bowl and other highlight films.

On the other hand, the National Football League had produced its own syndicated highlight programs through its in-house unit NFL Films.

The highlight segments consisted of NFL Films footage of the past week's games with narration by Harry Kalas ( following Kalas ' death in 2009, Scott Graham took over as the narrator ).

This was the case at least until the NFL Network emerged during the 2003 season and aired shows such as the show Point After that showed extended highlight segments.

In the last few years of Inside the NFL, the show decreased its highlight segments, eliminating some low-profile games.

The night before the game, Ed Sabol of NFL Films met with Hank Stram and convinced Stram to wear a hidden microphone during the game so his comments could be recorded for the NFL Films Super Bowl IV film.

Similarly, all of the telecasts of the NFL Championship Games prior to the Super Bowl are believed to have been lost, with all surviving footage of those games coming from separately produced film.

Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr., former NFL quarterbacks Drew Bledsoe, Troy Aikman, and Warren Moon, German ice skater Katarina Witt, then-current Dallas Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer, and former Detroit Lions coach Wayne Fontes play themselves in the film.

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

The film features an ensemble cast, consisting of Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, John C. McGinley, Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Lauren Holly, Bill Bellamy, Lela Rochon, Aaron Eckhart, Elizabeth Berkley, Marty Wright, and legendary NFL players Jim Brown and Lawrence Taylor.

Director Oliver Stone requested but did not receive the National Football League's permission to use real NFL team logos and stadiums for the film.

Actor and Coen Brothers favorite Jon Polito has garnered both stage and screen awards, and NFL Hall of Famer, longtime FOX commentator and feature film actor Howie Long graduated in 1982.

" The NFL reportedly considers the series its " 33rd franchise ", because each week during the season EA Sports receives the same searchable film database of every play that each of the league's 32 teams do.

Summerall, Brookshier, NFL on CBS producer Bob Wussler, and Miami Dolphins owner Joe Robbie appeared as themselves during the 1977 film Black Sunday, which was filmed on location at the Orange Bowl in Miami during Super Bowl X.

" Are You Gonna Be My Girl " appeared on the soundtracks for the video games Madden NFL 2004, Guitar Hero: On Tour and Rock Band, on Strictly Come Dancing and the 2006 animated film Flushed Away, and the 2008 film What Happens in Vegas.

ESPN created a film about the 2000 NFL draft ( notably the 6 quarterbacks drafted ahead of Tom Brady including Pennington ).

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After his retirement from the NFL following the 1993 season, Long pursued an acting career, focused mainly on action films including Firestorm, a 1998 film in which he starred.

Though playing in relative obscurity in the NAIA, Alzado nonetheless gained notice by the NFL when a scout for the Denver Broncos, having been taken off the road by automobile trouble, decided to pass the time by screening a film of Montana Tech, one of Yankton's opponents.

On NFL Network, Billick can be seen alongside Dennis Green on The Coaches Show, as well as Sterling Sharpe and Brian Baldinger on Thursday and Friday editions of Playbook, the ultimate NFL “ Xs and Os ” program utilizing the same “ all 22 ” game film that coaches and players use to preview all of the upcoming games.

The coaching staff of the Philadelphia Eagles brought the film to the Eagles training camp in 1969, but feared that the Eagle players would be angry when they saw the mistakes made by themselves and other NFL players.

The film begins with a brief mention of Price's involvement in the aforementioned murders, then brings it full circle, explaining that Price helped Dupree get a commercial driver's license, allowing Dupree to establish a career after his retirement from the NFL.

* The character has appeared in the tie-in promotion of the film Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, commercials for a cross-promotions with the NFL and DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket sports subscription package.

The team has also won four division titles (,,, and ) since their 1947 – 1948 NFL championship game appearances.

In 2002, Vick set many records and supplied the media with numerous highlights for the season, including rushing for 173 yards in an overtime win at Minnesota, the highest single-game rushing total for an NFL quarterback ever ( Vick's footwear from this game are currently enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame ).

The Browns were NFL champions again in 1964, but have since been only moderately successful, reaching the league's playoffs 15 times and appearing in the AFC championship game three times.

The AAFC proposed match-ups with NFL teams numerous times during its four-year existence, but no inter-league game ever materialized.

That set up the NFL championship match between the Browns and the Los Angeles Rams a week later in Cleveland, a game the Browns won 30-28 on a last-minute Groza field goal.

The Browns, who lost the last game of the regular season to the Lions only a week before, won their second NFL crown 56 – 10.

The Browns went on to win their third championship game in six NFL seasons, beating the Los Angeles Ram 38 – 14.

It was Graham's last game ; the win capped a 10-year run in which he led his team to the league championship every year, winning four in the AAFC and three in the NFL.

The 1940 Chicago Bears team holds the record for the biggest margin of victory in an NFL game ( playoff or regular season ) with a 73 – 0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.

Landry's show was famous for his analysis of raw game footage and for he and his co-host making their NFL " predictions " at the end of each show.

* 2008 – The first NFL game is played in Canada at Rogers Centre in Toronto as the Buffalo Bills defeated the Miami Dolphins 16 – 3.

Early football stars such as Jim Thorpe, Paddy Driscoll, and Al Bloodgood were skilled drop-kickers ; Driscoll in 1925 and Bloodgood in 1926 hold a tied NFL record of four drop kicked field goals in a single game.

The only successful drop kick in the NFL since the 1941 NFL Championship game was by Doug Flutie, the backup quarterback of the New England Patriots, against the Miami Dolphins on January 1, 2006, for an extra point after a touchdown.

Flutie had estimated " an 80 percent chance " of making the drop kick, which was called to give Flutie, 43 at the time, the opportunity to make a historic kick in his final NFL game, the drop kick being his last play in the NFL.

The last successful drop kick in the NFL before that was executed by Ray " Scooter " McLean of the Chicago Bears in their 37-9 victory over the New York Giants on December 21, 1941, in the NFL Championship game at Chicago's Wrigley Field.

An example of this was a 1985 NFL game in which William Perry, wearing number 72 and normally a defensive lineman, was made an eligible receiver on an offensive play, and successfully caught a touchdown pass attempt.

The result of the game was surprising to many in the sports media as Joe Namath and Matt Snell led Jets to the Super Bowl victory, under head coach Weeb Ewbank, who won two NFL Championships with the Colts.

Unitas threw for 376 yards and two scores but was sacked six times as the Jets won 44-34 ; the game was considered one of the top ten passing duels in NFL history.

Their next game was on the road against the Denver Broncos, who had earned the AFC's top seed with a 13 – 3 record and were widely regarded as the best team in the AFC, if not the NFL.

The Jaguars hosted the Miami Dolphins in the AFC Divisional playoffs, a 62 – 7 victory in what would be Dan Marino and Jimmy Johnson's last NFL game.