The first regular-season NFL game between the Packers and the Bears didn't begin with color commentator Cris Collinsworth rolling into the frame 30 seconds after play-by-play analyst Al Michaels started to talk. Instead, the NBC broadcast for the Bears-Packers game simply opened in the booth, where the two men sat side-by-side. I was shocked—where was Collinsworth's signature move? But there wasn't enough time to wonder, because then I noticed the old-time-y costumes.
That’s right, folks. The football lords might have taketh away, but they sure did giveth, too. Collinsworth, Michaels, and sideline reporter Michelle Tafoya were all dressed up as sportswriters from the 1920s.