Tom Hammond was initially NBC's secondary play-by-play announcer, calling one of NBC's two games on Wild Card Weekend. Cris Collinsworth called wild card games alongside Hammond until 2008, and took over on a permanent basis for the 2009 season when Madden announced his retirement from broadcasting on April 16, 2009. Prior to this, he served as a studio analyst for NBC's pregame show, "Football Night in America". For the 2009 season, Joe Theismann and Joe Gibbs took Collinsworth's place in the booth for the first game of Wild Card Weekend. Andrea Kremer meanwhile, was the sideline reporter. The announcement of Joe Gibbs as one of the color commentators for the Wild Card Saturday playoff games marked Gibbs' return to NBC's NFL coverage; where following his first retirement from the Redskins, he served as an occasional commentator on regional coverage during the 1993 NFL season before becoming a panelist on "NFL Live!"/"NFL on NBC" between the 1994 season until NBC lost their rights to cover the NFL after Super Bowl XXXII.