We Didn't Get A Collinsworth Slide, But TNF Did Give Us Throwback Costumes

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. The men wore…