Un/Necessary Sports Research

TONIGHT: Joe Buck’s 505th national NFL telecast ties Dan Dierdorf (fellow St. Louisan and former Cardinal) for 13th-most in our records.

🏈 Cardinals at Cowboys

📺🔤 ABC @espn.com @espnpr.bsky.social

🕗 8:15 PM EST
🎙️ Joe Buck
👨‍🏫 Troy Aikman
🎤 Lisa Salters, Laura Rutledge

As of tonight, there are 160,000 commentator games across our five main national TV listings (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL/US, NHL/Canada).

🏒 Penguins at Maple Leafs

🅿️ @sportsonprime.bsky.social
🕢 7:30 PM EST

🎙️ John Forslund
👨‍🏫 Jody Shelley, Thomas Hickey
🎤 @andipetrillo.bsky.social

Remember. Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.

TONIGHT: Mike Tirico’s 605th national (U.S.) telecast of the four major pro sports ties Brian Anderson for 18th-most by a PBP announcer.

🏈 @seahawksofficial.com at @wshcommanders.bsky.social

🦚 @snfonnbc.bsky.social
🕗 8:20 PM EDT

🎙️ Mike Tirico
👨‍🏫 Cris Collinsworth
🎤 @melissastark.bsky.social

NOW: Kevin Harlan’s 535th national NFL telecast passes Pat Summerall for fourth-most as a TV play-by-play announcer.

🏈 @sanfrancisco49ers.bsky.social at @newyorkgiants.bsky.social

👁️ @cbssports.bsky.social
🕐 1:00 PM EDT

🎙️ Kevin Harlan
👨‍🏫 Trent Green
🎤 Melanie Collins

Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain.

Senators-Canadiens should have Shawn McKenzie rinkside, not Reynolds. My kingdom for a copy editor.

For most of you in the U.S. and Canada, enjoy the "extra" hour of sleep tonight. Even if you really lost it in March.

NOW: John Smoltz becomes the ninth person (fourth analyst) in our records to call 600 national MLB telecasts.

⚾ @dodgers.com at @bluejays.com

🦊 Fox @foxsportspr.bsky.social
🕗 8:00 PM EDT

🎙️ Joe Davis
👨‍🏫 John Smoltz
🎤 @ken-rosenthal.bsky.social, Tom Verducci

Some of you are likely excited because tonight is Halloween. Some of you are also likely excited because, starting tomorrow, stores will have a reason to put their Halloween candy on clearance.

If you see me walking by
And the tears are in my eyes
Look away, baby, look away...
If we meet on the streets someday
And I don't know what to say
Look away, baby, look away...

Remember, both NBA telecasts tonight are on Peacock but only one is on your local NBC station.

"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog" is a palindrome. Part of me wants to know who took the time to figure that out. Part of me also knows that an account that counts sports announcers probably shouldn't wonder about other people's mind wanderings.

TODAY: Jim Nantz’s 510th national NFL telecast passes Charlie Jones for the 11th-most in our records.

🏈 Cowboys at @denver-broncos.bsky.social

👁️ @cbssports.bsky.social
🕓 4:25 PM EDT

🎙️ Jim Nantz
👨‍🏫 Tony Romo
🎤 Tracy Wolfson

NOW: Kevin Harlan’s 534th national NFL telecast ties Pat Summerall for fourth-most as a play-by-play announcer.

🏈 Dolphins at @atlantafalcons.bsky.social

👁️ @cbssports.bsky.social
🕐 1:00 PM EDT

🎙️ Kevin Harlan
👨‍🏫 Trent Green
🎤 Melanie Collins

This morning ushers in one of the windows where North American fans watching European events (or vice versa) find them at a strange hour because Europe has changed its clocks and North America has not. The early kickoffs in the NFL are at 5 p.m., not 6, in London today.

It's the last Saturday in October, which means that at this time next week, it will be November.

TODAY: Peter Drury becomes the fourth person to handle 400 U.S. telecasts of the Premier League since NBC assumed those rights in 2013.

⚽ @manutdfc.bsky.social vs. Brighton & Hove Albion

🦚 NBC
🕧 12:30 PM EDT

🎙️ Peter Drury
👨‍🏫 Graeme LeSaux

Updated for tonight with a line that was missing: the Maple Leafs-Sabres game is a national telecast in both countries.

Today’s date brings to mind the number 1024, which is 2 to the 10th power, which means it’s the number of places in a single-elimination bracket with 10 rounds. Not that anyone who follows a sports-themed account that counts things would ever think about tournament brackets.

My chemistry teacher from high school would like me to wish you all a happy Mole Day, because everyone has Avogadro's Number.

Tonight is a time to begin (24 NBA teams playing their season openers) and a time to end (the first elimination games of the MLS playoffs).

Somewhere it is probably also the best of times, the worst of times, and a dark and stormy night.

May we all live happily ever after.

TONIGHT: Mike Tirico’s 314th national NBA telecast ties Brian Anderson for eighth-most by a play-by-play announcer.

🏀 Rockets at @okcthunder.bsky.social

🦚 @nbaonnbc.bsky.social
🕢 7:30 PM EDT

🎙️ Mike Tirico
👨‍🏫 Reggie Miller, Jamal Crawford
🎤 Zora Stephenson

Ain't no way they can stop me now
Cause I'm on my way, I can feel my ring comin'
It's the blood of a champion, pumpin'
Deep inside my veins, too much pride to be runnin'

It's a Monday Night Football doubleheader night, also including Monday Night Hockey and Monday Night Baseball Game Seven.

Sunday.

TONIGHT: Chris Cuthbert’s 1300th Canadian national NHL telecast on play-by-play ties Jim Hughson for second-most in our records.

🏒 @seattlekraken.com at Maple Leafs

🍁🎫🅾️🌊 CBC, SN Ontario/Pacific (@sportsnetpr.bsky.social)
🕖 7:00 PM EDT

🎙️ @ccpxp.bsky.social
👨‍🏫 Craig Simpson
🎤 Kyle Bukauskas

With the Dodgers winning the NL pennant last night and the NBA season starting Tuesday, the only Big Four pro sport on the docket today is hockey. There's also a lot of college football of course.

Goin’ to the market now (market now).
I’m the city’s biggest bologna buyer.
Walkin’ down the shopping aisle (shopping aisle)
Filling up my basket with Oscar Mayer.

If everything could ever be this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when