Tirico looks toward Olympics while also on football duty

NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Tirico will fill the 100 days before the Pyeongchang Games with football and figure skating.

With speed skating and downhill skiing. Curling and hockey.

Tirico will be NBC's prime-time host for the Winter Olympics, which begin a few days after the Super Bowl in February. Indeed, in that role for the first time — Tirico had some hosting duties at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, but Bob Costas was the primary anchor — Tirico will miss the NFL's title game in Minneapolis. By then, he'll be hunkered down in South Korea.

"I have never watched a Super Bowl on a Monday morning," Tirico joked recently before heading to Pyeongchang this week for some prep work and reports for NBC News.