As NBC’s pregame present goes on the highway, I will decide and select which video games to attend

Plenty of adjustments are coming to NBC’s Football Night in America, the pregame present that precedes Sunday Night Football. There have been in latest weeks loads of rumors adopted by experiences adopted by bulletins.

The newest bulletins got here on Sunday night time. One, former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin is becoming a member of the present. Two, the present is happening the highway each week.

It was already transferring in that path. Last yr, the present went to Philadelphia in Week 1, Dallas in Week 4, Pittsburgh in Week 8, Philly in Week 11, and Pittsburgh in Week 18. That was probably the most variety of totally on-site applications within the 20-year historical past of the present.

This yr, it will likely be 18 weeks. Plus the Week 1 Wednesday night time sport in Seattle.

Since 2010, I’ve made the journey to the NBC studio in New York (by way of 2013) and Connecticut (since 2014) — excluding the 2 pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, after I appeared from the studio above my storage. This yr, I’ll be within the stadium for some video games, residence for others.

It might be pushed largely by proximity/journey, with the importance of the sport additionally an element. Trips to California make no sense, particularly with a 7:00 a.m. ET present the following morning. (Which, as Myles Simmons is aware of from the occasions he has co-hosted, is 4:00 a.m. PT.)

Car journeys from what is a perfect place to begin in West Virginia to locations like Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C., Charlotte, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Buffalo, and Detroit might be straightforward, since I can submit objects on PFT and/or make calls and/or catch a nap on the best way. Some different locations will entail a direct flight from Pittsburgh not for much longer than the weekly journeys to and from Connecticut.

The bonus is that this — on weekends after I’m residence, I’ll have extra time to do what I do on daily basis: Load this house with new tales and file movies from the PFT Live set or the Olive Garden alternate location. The free plan is to do weekly Saturday night time episodes of #PFTPM after I’m right here, and movies after the 1:00 p.m. ET video games on Sundays.

The greatest distinction might be on no-travel Mondays, after I can lock in and crank out content material with out scrambling to the airport, ready to board the aircraft, ready for the aircraft to take off, flying residence, and many others.

Would I choose to be with the remainder of the crew each week? Yes. But it doesn’t make sense to hopscotch across the nation for 18 straight weeks. Especially since each week is a lather, rinse, repeat of continuous work from Monday by way of Friday, go away residence on Saturday, travel-work-travel, get residence on Monday, and do all of it once more.

It nonetheless beats the hell out of working for a dwelling, I do know. But diminished journey might be higher for my general bodily and psychological well being and well-being. It might be higher for NBC. And it is going to in the end be higher for you, since I’ll have extra time to trip the horse that brung me into this house, 25 years in the past.