When you were wanting forward to spending your New 12 months’s Eve in front of the TELEVISION with Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, feel free to make different plans because the NFL announced tonight it was canceling the season-ending Sunday Night Soccer sport’”making it the first time since 1977 that the NFL common season won’t end with a primetime broadcast. Now we have bought many various football games for the previous few years. NFL fans can watch this season’s playoff video games and Tremendous Bowl LII on the go courtesy of Verizon , beginning this weekend, Oath CEO Tim Armstrong told CNBC. As in years previous, the NFL Network will simulcast those games and in addition exclusively broadcast a further seven games in that point slot.

Instead of ending with a traditional night time game, which normally options two playoff contenders, the season will wrap up with a heavier-than-typical afternoon slate of gridiron battles. Prior to now, tech companies which have gained streaming rights have simulcast the game airing on conventional television, nevertheless it’s doable a bidder may provide to pay the NFL to place Thursday Night time Soccer” completely on-line.

Some bidders have proposed changes to the game, together with only scheduling teams who’ve had greater than a week of rest or moving a couple of matchups to different days of the week. There are two NFL video games left earlier than the Super Bowl: The New England Patriots play the Jacksonville Jaguars as we speak at three:05 pm ET, on CBS, and then the Philadelphia Eagles play the Minnesota Vikings at 6:forty pm, on Fox.

American military personnel will have the ability to watch the NFL’s conference championship games Sunday despite the federal government shutdown, because of a new designation regarding the American Forces Network. 29 The collapse affected no additional NFL games, as the remainder of the Vikings’ 2010 season consisted of street video games, and the crew had already been eliminated from playoff contention.

In 1987, the gamers went on strike for a second time in-season, again following the second week of the campaign. It is awfully damn chilly on this final NFL Sunday of the 2017 common season. Subsequent season, Verizon says it can also stream preseason games, Thursday Night Soccer, Sunday Night time Football, Monday Night time Football, native market video games and playoff matches.