In 2005, NBC re-entered the NFL picture during negotiations for television contracts. The network was able to take advantage of a league desire to be able to switch the schedule so non-competitive games would not air in the league's marquee timeslot. Since this would require a move to Sunday night in order for this to happen, and since ABC decided to relinquish their rights to "Monday Night Football", NBC was able to bid on the "Sunday Night Football" package and won the rights after ESPN (corporate sibling to ABC and which had previously held those rights) elected to take over the "Monday Night Football" rights from ABC. NBC resumed airing NFL football on August 6, 2006, with coverage of the annual AFC-NFC Hall of Fame Game.