NBC SUNDAY QUOTES

COSTAS FEELING THE "WEIGHT OF THE WORLD":
"Atlas outside our studios at 30 Rock, the weight of the world on his shoulders feeling much as I do each Sunday night attempting to carry the trio I'm sitting here with, Cris Collinsworth, Jerome Bettis and Sterling Sharpe."
COLLINSWORTH:
"I have seen you in the gym, and you would have trouble carrying your water bottle much less us."

NBC's BOB NEUMEIER INTERVIEWS EAGLES QB DONOVAN MCNABB FOLLOWING THEIR VICTORY OVER TERRELL OWENS AND THE COWBOYS:
MCNABB: "It's not about me and T.O. It was great for the media to try to pump it up, to try to get our game going. I'm sure people across the league were watching and that people enjoyed the game, it was an exciting game. But it was the Dallas Cowboys versus the Philadelphia Eagles."
NEUMEIER: "Did you take any particular delight in Terrell Owens not being a factor in this ballgame today?
MCNABB: "Not at all. The delight that I have is in looking up at that scoreboard and seeing 38-24."

SHARPE PICKS THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS TO MEET COLLINSWORTH'S FIRST WEEK PREDICTION, THE BEARS, IN THE SUPER BOWL:
"This is a different Colts team and let me tell you why – they are power-running the football. They're not just putting it all on Peyton Manning's shoulders. The last two games, they have run the football 314 yards, almost five yards a clip. I like what they're doing because I've been telling people, before Cris mentioned the Chicago Bears being this good, that the Indianapolis Colts had to re-invent themselves, and they have, with their power running game"
COLLINSWORTH:
"They had better re-invent their run defense, because they are terrible."

BETTIS ON THE STEELERS MAKING THE BYE WEEK WORK:
"I talked to Ben Roethlisberger the other day and he told me he put the bye to good use. He looked at a lot of tape, he worked with the wide receivers on their timing, and I think that spells – offensive explosion. Hines Ward is getting healthier, because he had a hamstring injury, and I think that spells offensive explosion."
COLLINSWORTH:
"It couldn't get any worse, let me put it that way."

BETTIS ON THE STEELERS AND CHARGERS TONIGHT:
"If they want to win the division and have a chance to go to the playoffs, they have got to win this game."

SHARPE ON "COOL" ARIZONA QB MATT LEINART'S GOOD PLAY IN HIS FIRST START FOR THE CARDINALS:
"I had a chance to do a pre-season game with Arizona at New England, and the game is not too big for Matt Leinart. He's a guy who has a lot of confidence in his abilities, a guy who understands big games, he's played in a bunch of them at USC, and he's got a real deep cool, almost a positive cockiness, that his teammates are going to feed off of. Coming out on the first two drives and throwing two touchdowns is going to serve dividends in November and December, more so than it did today."

The "Football Night in America" studio, just down the hall from the famed Studio 8H, home of "Saturday Night Live," was built in the former studio home of first the Philco Television Playhouse (1948-1955) and later for game shows Concentration (1958-1973) and Jeopardy (1964-1975), and talk shows Donahue (1984-1996) and The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996-2002), and shares the "SNL" control room for the football season. The "Football Night" set was designed and built by Jeremy Conway - the former set designer for "Sex in the City." Two 103" high definition Panasonic plasma screen televisions – roughly the size of a queen-size mattress – ar