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It&#8217;s Super Bowl Sunday.Eagles fans, the big day is finally here.But now what?Who knows when Philadelphia will be playing in February again, so it&#8217;s time to make the most of it.If you&#8217;re reading this before 9 a.m., go back to bed. It&#8217;s going to be a long day. And live coverage from Minneapolis doesn&#8217;t begin until 9 a.m. anyway.Now that you have a hot cup of joe and a fresh bowl of Fruit Loops or Cheerios and have settled into your favorite chair, it&#8217;s time to buckle in.Wait, maybe before you buckle in, it&#8217;s best to take one more trip to the bathroom. Like I said, this is going to be a long day. A very, very long day. But completely worth it.So, it&#8217;s 9 a.m.First up is &#8220;NFL Gameday Morning&#8221; which airs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on NFL Network. If you&#8217;re looking for live Super Bowl coverage, this is it until &#8220;Postseason NFL Countdown&#8221; begins at 10 a.m. on ESPN. Countdown also airs until 2 p.m.However, if you&#8217;re strictly an ESPN watcher, &#8220;SportsCenter&#8221; does start at 9 a.m. and will definitely have live shots from Minneapolis. So there&#8217;s that.But from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. you have a big choice to make. NFL Network or ESPN. This decision could change everything.NFL Network has Rich Eisen joined by Michael Irvin, Steve Mariucci, Kurt Warner and special guests and will rival ESPN&#8217;s coverage, which includes Sam Ponder joined by Matt Hasselbeck, Randy Moss, Rex Ryan, Charles Woodson and Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen, among others.Now, for all of you Eagles fans, you might not want to watch Dallas Cowboys great Irvin for five straight hours. However, Rex Ryan has been a disappointment in front of the camera this season. And that&#8217;s coming from a Buffalo Bills fan who enjoyed him as head coach &#8212; for the most part. Moss and Woodson are an interesting combination, but Hasselbeck carries the show as far as analysts go.As we near the one o&#8217;clock hour, NBC starts its Super Bowl coverage.NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Super Bowl Pregame&#8221; enters the fold and airs until 6 p.m. as &#8220;NFL Gameday Morning&#8221; transitions into its second block at 2 p.m. But at that point should it still be called &#8220;NFL Gameday Morning&#8221;? It is 2 p.m. after all.While Bob Costas won&#8217;t be leading NBC&#8217;s coverage this year, the Peacock Network has an intriguing cast of characters. Dan Patrick and Liam McHugh will lead the pregame broadcast, but NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martin Truex Jr. and Ryan Blaney, NBC reporter Rutledge Wood, Olympian and former alpine skier Bode Miller, soccer analyst Andres Cantor and The Weather Channel&#8217;s Jim Cantore will all appear on the broadcast.As a skier, the addition of Miller is down right intriguing. But that&#8217;s coming from a skier.According to NASCAR.com, Truex Jr., Blaney, Wood, Miller, Cantor and Cantore &#8220;will experience the Super Bowl celebration together from Minneapolis, and take part in outdoor events and activities leading up to kickoff.&#8221;While NBC&#8217;s pregame coverage is sure to include former New England Patriot Rodney Harrison, who&#8217;s a tough pill to swallow on non-Patriots broadcasts, it&#8217;ll be worth it.Game time!It&#8217;s 6 p.m. now.THIRTY-MINUTE WARNING!!!One last opportunity to go to the bathroom and reload on food and cold beverages before we enter the halfway point of Super Bowl Sunday.NBC jumps right into its Super Bowl broadcast at 6 p.m., however, kickoff isn&#8217;t until 6:30 p.m. so you have a little time to spare.While Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth isn&#8217;t Jim Nantz and Tony Romo &#8212; sidenote: Romo&#8217;s the real MVP this season &#8212; NBC&#8217;s lead pairing is better than Joe Buck and Troy Aikman and Sean McDonough and Jon Gruden combined. No shot at Aikman or McDonough, but Buck and Gruden hold their compadre back.So if you don&#8217;t want to watch NBC&#8217;s broadcast of the game, there are two alternatives. You could tune to YES Network at 7:30 p.m. for &#8220;Homegrown: The Path to Pinstripes&#8221; to see what the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders were doing at some point this past summer (just had to mention that).Or you could turn again to NFL Network. From 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., NFL Network is broadcasting &#8220;Super Bowl Game Center,&#8221; which will include statistics and scoring updates from Minneapolis.Post-gameNow, let&#8217;s fast forward through the game, all the commercials and the highly anticipated Justin Timberlake halftime performance to the postgame coverage.NBC&#8217;s postgame switches over to the NBC Sports Network after the game. And NBC Sports Philadelphia will have Eagles-centric postgame from 9:30 p.m. until midnight, which I feel like everyone reading this might tune to.But if that&#8217;s not your first choice, &#8220;NFL Primetime&#8221; with Chris Berman starts at 10:30 p.m. on ESPN. I mean come on. Primetime!&#8220;Whoop!&#8221;&#8220;Rumbling, stumbling, bumbling!&#8221;And then, there&#8217;s NFL Network&#8217;s &#8220;NFL GameDay Prime,&#8221; which will feature host Chris Rose with Deion Sanders and LaDainian Tomlinson.But if things don&#8217;t go right for the Eagles, there&#8217;s a pretty good chance you won&#8217;t be watching any TV past 10 p.m. or so.Good luck, Eagles fans!<style>
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