Chris Berman is debuting “Chris Berman’s Super Bowl Top 20,” a weekly ESPN countdown of his personal favorite Super Bowl plays, calls, and memories, beginning Monday nights this season and building to his No. 1 pick during the January playoffs, just before ESPN’s Super Bowl LXI telecast on Feb. 14, 2027.
The 90-second to two-minute packaged segments will premiere on NFL Live ahead of each Monday Night Football broadcast and re-air through the week. Berman, 71 and approaching 50 years at ESPN after joining the network a month after its 1979 launch, has already shot the first installments and locked in his top three or four choices. He is still wrestling with the rest of the order, comparing the ranking to “trying to play a trifecta at the track.”
The series is part of ESPN’s “Year of the Super Bowl” campaign, which launched in February with “The Handoff,” a 24-hour event from SoFi Stadium to Disneyland in which Berman passed hosting duties to Scott Van Pelt.
Other pieces of the campaign include Jeremy Schaap’s weekly podcast The Biggest Game, which opened with Berman as its first guest, and I Scored a Touchdown, profiling a scorer from each of the previous Super Bowls. Berman is less present on linear ESPN than in his SportsCenter and NFL Primetime peak years, but he still hosts a streaming NFL Primetime on ESPN+ and has said he wants to stay through 2029 to mark 50 years with the network. ESPN’s Super Bowl LXI broadcast is billed as the network’s biggest to date.