{"id":634313,"date":"2026-04-27T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:26:15","slug":"tomlin-officially-introduced-as-fnia-personality-during-nbc-basketball-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634313\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomlin officially introduced as \u2018FNIA\u2019 personality during NBC basketball coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Tomlin called the move into the media after 19 years with the Steelers a \u201cgreat way to stay connected to the game.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n

Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin was formally introduced Sunday night as the newest member of the \u201cFootball Night in America\u201d on-air roster<\/a> prior to NBC\u2019s coverage of Celtics-76ers Game 4. He called the move into the media after 19 years with the Steelers a \u201cgreat way to stay connected to the game.\u201d Tomlin joins the show as Pro Football HOFer Tony Dungy will not return<\/a> and the future of analysts Rodney Harrison, Chris Simms and Jac Collinsworth reportedly are uncertain. Meanwhile, NBC\u2019s Maria Taylor announced that the pregame show will \u201ctravel every single week\u201d to the site of the \u201cSNF\u201d game (\u201cNBA Showtime,\u201d NBC, 4\/26).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomlin called the move into the media after 19 years with the Steelers a \u201cgreat way to stay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,134,596,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-634313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}