Pat McAfee Takes Field Pass to Super Bowl LXI and Monday Nights
Pat McAfee is taking Field Pass to the Super Bowl. ESPN will carry Field Pass with the Pat McAfee Show as an alternate telecast for Super Bowl LXI next year, giving viewers a second broadcast to choose alongside the main call Deadline.
An alternate telecast, meaning the same game shown with different presenters and a different style, will air on ESPNU. It is one of three alternate telecasts planned for the game. ESPN confirmed the line-up in a press release on 11 October ESPN Press Room.
McAfee will lead the broadcast from field level. He will be joined there by analysts Dan Orlovsky and Darius Butler.
Three regulars from his show complete the team from elsewhere in the stadium. Connor Campbell, Ty Schmit and Tone Digs will appear from an in-stadium suite.
The Super Bowl show grows out of a wider move into the NFL. Field Pass with the Pat McAfee Show will also serve as an alternate telecast for selected Monday Night Football games this season, a weekly primetime slot on Monday nights.
That run covers five Monday Night Football editions. It starts in Week 6 with the Washington Commanders against the San Francisco 49ers and finishes in Week 18 on 9 January.
Viewers who want a different angle on the Super Bowl will have two other choices. The Manningcast will air on ESPN2, while Super Bowl LXI Playbook with Next Gen Stats will air on NFL Network.
The Playbook feed focuses on data and tactics, using the league's player-tracking figures to explain formations and movement. Its Monday version, MNF Playbook with Next Gen Stats, will have seven Monday editions on NFL Network.
That run starts earlier. It begins in Week 5 with the Buffalo Bills against the Los Angeles Rams.
McAfee is shifting Field Pass from college football to the professional game. The show previously served as an alternative broadcast for the College Football Playoff before this expansion to the Super Bowl and Monday nights Yahoo Sports. The Athletic first reported the ESPN addition on 10 October The Athletic.
For fans, this means more ways to watch the same match. One room can follow the main commentary. Another can follow McAfee and his crew on the sideline, or a numbers-led call, without changing the game itself.
