If you have been trying forward to spending your New Yr’s Eve in front of the TV with Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, be at liberty to make other plans as the NFL announced tonight it was canceling the season-ending Sunday Night Football game’”making it the first time since 1977 that the NFL regular season will not end with a primetime broadcast. This was the utmost number mathematically doable, since four of the six divisions at the moment had an odd number of groups (the two video games that were not intra-division were New York Jets at Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys at Minnesota Vikings ). The New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles recreation originally scheduled for Week 7 on Monday was moved to Sunday, while the Dallas Cowboys at Minnesota Vikings sport initially scheduled for Week three on Sunday was moved to Monday.

In 2005, the NFL moved up the Kansas City Chiefs at Miami Dolphins recreation from Sunday, October 23 at 1 PM ET to Friday, October 21 at 7 PM ET due to the upcoming Hurricane Wilma The NFL obtained permission to be allowed to play the game on a Friday, as the crew’s antitrust exemption usually forbids it to televise video games on Fridays to guard highschool soccer 26 It also compelled the Chiefs to journey to Miami on the day of the game, a violation of the NFL’s collective bargaining settlement with the National Football League Gamers Affiliation which requires a visiting group to arrive within the host metropolis no later than 24 hours prior to kickoff.

The opening sport of the 2013 season, which would traditionally have been hosted by the Baltimore Ravens as defending Tremendous Bowl XLVII champions, was instead a Ravens road sport on the Denver Broncos because of a battle with a Baltimore Orioles house game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards and insufficient parking for both venues.

This was in contrast in the course of the wake of the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963 when the NFL went ahead and performed its full slate of games that week, a decision that then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle would later regret, 7 though he additionally said that Pierre Salinger , Kennedy’s press secretary, had urged him to permit the video games to be played.

Using a score system that accounts for margin of victory, house-discipline advantage, energy of schedule, and prior performance, after which simulating the playoffs 1000’s of times, Silver determined the chance every team had of successful each playoff game and the Tremendous Bowl.… Read More...