ESPN is one of the options to watch Super Bowl LVI with 12 hours of live coverage beginning at 2am AEDT, culminating with an exclusive Australian and New Zealand broadcast from ESPN’s Monday Night Football team, featuring more action and fewer commercial breaks.
The game will also be broadcast live on Seven and 7plus on Monday morning from 10am.
Seven’s Super Bowl coverage
From the NFL in Los Angeles to the slopes in Beijing, Seven’s sport schedule will be jam-packed when the Aussies go for gold on Day 10 of the Olympic Winter Games, following an epic Super Bowl LVI, including the highly anticipated Halftime Show headlined by Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Eminem.
The NFL action will kick off from 9.30am AEDT with a pregame special edition of Seven’s NFL Armchair Experts, featuring former Arizona Cardinals punter and Geelong AFL star Ben Graham and host Cam Luke on the ground in Los Angeles before the main event at 10.00am AEDT.
Following all the NFL action, Seven’s Matt Shirvington and Emma Freedman will take viewers live to Beijing 2022 for a huge day of coverage, likely featuring Australian flagbearer Laura Peel and teammate Danielle Scott in the Women’s Freestyle Ski Aerial Finals, following the Qualifying Run on Sunday evening.
Managing director Seven Melbourne and head of network sport, Lewis Martin said: “As the free-to-air home of the NFL and Australia’s Home of the Olympics, we’re thrilled to deliver such an exciting day of back-to-back live sport coverage on Seven.
“Seven’s comprehensive live and free coverage will take viewers inside the action of the current and past NFL seasons, along with exclusive digital content that brings the very best of this incredible sport to fans across Australia.
“Australians have wholeheartedly embraced the Olympic Winter Games coverage on Seven and we cannot wait to see what our talent-stacked team of athletes has in store when they hit the slopes for the Aerials, Monobob and Big Air Finals on a mega Monday of live sport.”
See also: Seven’s Martin and McLachlan – Delivering the 2022 Beijing Winter Games
ESPN covers the world’s biggest sports event
The biggest sporting event on the planet – Super Bowl LVI – is live on ESPN, Monday February 14 at 10am AEDT, where the NFC champion Los Angeles Rams meet the AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium.
ESPN will once again bring an exclusive broadcast to our Australia and New Zealand audience, headlined by ESPN’s Monday Night Football team of Steve Levy, Brian Griese and Louis Riddick.
ESPN SportsCenter host Phil Murphy and journalist Neroli Meadows will also be on site in Los Angeles for exclusive coverage dedicated to Australian and New Zealand NFL fans.
The pair will bring to life all the colour and excitement from 9.30am AEDT with SC: NFL Blitz Super Bowl LVI Pre Show, live at SoFi Stadium, before Super Bowl LVI begins at 10am AEDT.
ESPN will also bring every moment of the Half-Time Show that includes Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Mary J.Blige and Kendrick Lamar.
Super Bowl LVI will see the Los Angeles Rams look to become just the second team to win the Vince Lombardi Trophy on their home field. They would also be the second successive team to complete that feat, after Tampa Bay created history last year.
Match preview
The Rams last played in Super Bowl LIII in 2018, losing to New England 13-3. Their last Super Bowl victory came in 2009, then as the St Louis Rams, claiming Super Bowl XXXIV over Tennessee Titans 23-16.
For Super Bowl LVI, Los Angeles will look towards Quarterback Matthew Stafford and star receivers Odell Beckham Jr and Cooper Kupp to steer the Rams home.
Wins over Arizona Cardinals, defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Francisco 49ers, secured the Rams place in the decider.
The Cincinnati Bengals have never won a Super Bowl in their history. Super Bowl LVI is their first appearance in the NFL’s deciding game for 33 years.
Super Bowl LVI is the Bengals third trip to the NFL championship game, having been beaten in two previous efforts at Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXII by the San Francisco 49ers.
The Bengals are the fairytale story of the NFL season. Victory over the Las Vegas Raiders in this year’s Super Wildcard Weekend was their first playoff win in 31 years – ending the longest ever playoff drought in the four major sporting codes in the United States.
They followed that with their first ever playoff road victory, over #1 AFC seed Tennessee Titans, before downing the #2 seed Kansas City Chiefs to take the AFC championship.
Quarterback Joe Burrow is the Bengals star, and he can become the first man in history to win the Heisman Trophy, College Football Championship and a Super Bowl, should he lift in the big match.
ESPN Super Bowl schedule
Weekend Super Bowl preview programming on ESPN
Saturday February 12
8am AEDT, NFL Live, ESPN
1.30pm AEDT, NFL Greatest Games: Super Bowl XXXVI, ESPN
3pm AEDT, Super Bowl XXXIV, ESPN
4.30pm AEDT, Super Bowl XX Highlights, ESPN
5pm AEDT, Super Bowl LIII, ESPN2
5.30pm AEDT, Super Bowl LV, ESPN2
6pm AEDT, NFL Films: Road to the Super Bowl, ESPN2
8pm AEDT, SC: NFL Blitz (Premiere), ESPN2
9pm AEDT, Man in the Arena: Maybe, ESPN2
Sunday February 13
10am AEDT, Man in the Arena Marathon, ESPN2
8pm AEDT, SC: NFL Blitz (Premiere), ESPN
Super Bowl LVI on ESPN
Monday February 14
2am AEDT, Postseason NFL Countdown, ESPN
6am AEDT, Postseason NFL Countdown, ESPN
9.30am AEDT, SC: NFL Blitz Pre Show, ESPN
10am AEDT, Super Bowl LVI, ESPN
2.30pm AEDT, NFL Prime Time, ESPN
4.30pm AEDT, Replay, ESPN2
ESPN and ESPN2 are available on Foxtel, Kayo Sports, Fetch TV and Sky NZ.