NBC is receiving backlash after opting to skip the national anthem on Sunday, during a time meant to honor veterans.
Veteran’s Day is on Wednesday, and the National Football League (NFL) is currently engaged in its Salute To Service campaign. So that makes it all the more strange that they apparently decided to skip the national anthem during their “Sunday Night Football” broadcast, where they aired a game played on Chicago’s Soldier Field.
To say that this was a misfire would be one hell of an understatement.
“All audiences saw after NBC did its booth introduction talk between analyst Cris Collinsworth and play-by-play man Noah Eagle was a pregame interview with Bears quarterback Caleb Williams before viewers saw an aerial view of the field during which flag bearers were carrying a folded field-sized American flag back into one of the stadium’s tunnels,” OutKick reported. The outlet also noted that the choice not to air the national anthem is generally not made by the NFL, but rather by the individual outlets covering the event. Meaning that NBC is directly to blame.
It didn’t take long for viewers to notice the lack of American pride, and they were not kind about it on X:
@NBCSports and @NFL hate the National Anthem and hate Veterans. There can be no other conclusion drawn from their decision not to air the National anthem on the weekend before Veterans Day, during the Salute to Service weekend, and at Soldier Field in Chicago! Am done with NBC!
— Casual Observer (@AF4F0X1) November 9, 2026
Why doesn’t NBC show the
National Anthem!?
It’s Sunday night Football!
🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸— Vic (@Vic_mettaX) November 9, 2026
Typical NBC, unpatriotic just before veterans days, at Soldier Field and they “accidentally skip” the playing of the Anthem…. Too coincidental and typical of this network. The NFL should throw a unsportsmanlike conduct flag on NBC and penalize them, maybe a network move is due?
— Poppy (@Grandkids_Poppy) November 9, 2026
Why no national anthem??? You’ve lost me!!
— Glenn Tharp (@GlennTharp6) November 9, 2026
We had to watch this interview instead of watching the National Anthem. NBC continues to prove how out of touch they are and that they are a POS network.
— Mike (@Mikekb9w) November 9, 2026
Sad you fascists at NBC skipped the National Anthem intentionally on Veterans Day week.
— CavCop (@cav_cop) November 9, 2026
Interesting coverage. Was there no National Anthem for the Sunday nights game or did you just choose not to air it?
— J Bednar (@seabass319) November 9, 2026
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