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    NBC reveals Peacock broadcast team for NFL's first regular season game in Brazil

    By Scooby Axson, USA TODAY,

    9 hours ago

    Fresh off an impressive debut calling men’s and women’s Olympic basketball in Paris, NBC Sports has tapped play-by-play announcer Noah Eagle to call the Green Bay Packers - Philadelphia Eagles Week 1 game in São Paulo, Brazil, the NFL's first regular season game in that country .

    The game will take place on Friday, Sept. 6, and airs exclusively on Peacock.

    Eagle, this year's Sports Emmy winner for Outstanding Personality/Emerging On Air, will be joined by his regular college football partner, analyst Todd Blackledge, and Kaylee Hartung — a reporter for Amazon Prime Video’s "Thursday Night Football" — will handle sideline duties.

    This isn’t Eagle’s first foray into calling NFL games; he was the lead play-by-play broadcaster for last season’s AFC wild-card game between the Cleveland Browns and Houston Texans , and he also called the 2022 Indianapolis Colts–Minnesota Vikings game on NFL Network, which saw the Vikings overcome a 33-0 deficit in the largest comeback in NFL history.

    The Packers - Eagles tilt, the first Friday game on the league’s opening weekend since 1970, is the second of four prime-time telecasts that weekend on NBC and Peacock.

    The Baltimore Ravens and the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs kick off the NFL’s regular season on Thursday, Sept. 5, in a rematch of the AFC championship game.

    "Big Ten Saturday Night," Eagle and Blackledge’s regular gig, will feature Colorado at Nebraska on Sept. 7. That game will be called by a different announcing crew, which will be named next week.

    The weekend culminates with a "Sunday Night Football" game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Detroit Lions .

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    This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NBC reveals Peacock broadcast team for NFL's first regular season game in Brazil

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