Sunday Night Football is TV’s most-watched program in primetime TV, and has been for 13 years, making it an attractive lead-in for the Tonight Show, which will tape in its 30 Rockefeller Plaza studio. Local news will run in between the end of the NFL program and the start of the Tonight Show.

NBC will air a special edition of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" after a November edition of "Sunday Night Football" next month. "The Tonight Show" will broadcast on NBC after the Nov. 17 matchup between the New York Jets and the Indianapolis Colts,

Jimmy Fallon is headed back to the gridiron. The late-night host will host a new episode of NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Sunday, November 17, following the network’s broadcast that evening of a “Sunday Night Football” match-up between the New York Jets and the Indianapolis Colts.

Jimmy Fallon is heading into his post-gridiron phase. The Tonight Show will air a rare Sunday night episodes on November 17 after Sunday Night Football. The late-night show will come on after Anthony Richardson’s Indianapolis Colts take on Aaron Rodgers’ New York Jets at Met Life (following local news).