Even though Dial Global Radio Network (the former Westwood One) has the exclusive national radio contract to broadcast "Sunday Night Football", "Monday Night Football", "Thursday Night Football" and every NFL playoff game including the Super Bowl, I bet you didn't know that there are other radio networks that carry the league Sunday afternoons on radio stations across America.

Besides Dial Global, Compass Media & Sports USA are national radio networks that syndicate live NFL games Sunday afternoons on thousands of radio stations across America. Starting this fall, ESPN Radio will do the same...sort of. The sports radio network has signed a deal with 5 teams to broadcast actual out of market games. ESPN Radio will broadcast out-of-market games involving the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers & both New York teams, the Jets & Giants. It's the first time ESPN Radio will broadcast such games. In the past, "The NFL on ESPN Radio" originated in Bristol, CT starting at 12Noon (CT) and airing until 6P (CT) during football season.

ESPN Radio will have the rights to those 5 teams with no streaming rights. According to Sports Business Journal, it might be only the beginning. The sports radio network is said to be seeking out of market broadcast rights to other teams around the NFL.

While ESPN Radio hasn't announced who will call these games, three of the network's many NFL analysts such as Herm Edwards, Bill Polian & Damien Woody are expected to work these broadcasts starting this fall.

With the addition of NFL play-by-play for the above 5 teams, ESPN Radio continues to flex their play-by-play muscle. The radio network already has national broadcast rights for MLB, the NBA, USC Football, the final year of the Bowl Championship Series and the upcoming College Football Playoff scheduled to start in 2015.