In the event you were looking ahead to spending your New Year’s Eve in front of the TV with Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, feel free to make other plans as the NFL introduced tonight it was canceling the season-ending Sunday Night time Soccer game’”making it the primary time since 1977 that the NFL common season will not finish with a primetime broadcast. Three video games have been canceled as the result of unsafe playing fields: a 1995 NFL preseason recreation between the San Diego Chargers and the Houston Oilers , 1 a 2001 preseason recreation between the Baltimore Ravens and the Philadelphia Eagles , 2 and the 2016 Professional Football Hall of Fame Sport 3 An extra preseason sport, the 2017 Texas Governor’s Cup , was canceled on account of weather.

On October 12, 1964, the St. Louis Cardinals were forced to move their scheduled residence sport against the Baltimore Colts to Memorial Stadium , since St. Louis’ Busch Stadium I was getting used for the World Collection by the baseball crew additionally known as the St. Louis Cardinals Despite the fact that recreation five of the World Sequence was played that day at Yankee Stadium , the football Cardinals couldn’t use the stadium until the baseball group, the stadium’s owner, had completed its season.

The NFL and Verizon deal matches with that strategy, with Armstrong saying it was one of many first large “constructing blocks.” The 2 introduced the multiyear partnership in December, saying prospects and Oath site users — which embrace Yahoo Sports activities, Yahoo and AOL — would be capable to stream soccer games Beforehand only Verizon prospects could watch livestreamed cellular video games.

Hurricane Irma prompted the postponement of a recreation between the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers , initially scheduled for September 10, 2017, to November 19; both teams coincidentally have been scheduled for the same bye week , leaving the latter date available for the game to be made up.

A number of video games had been faraway from the schedules of the NFL teams of the early 1940s, but as a result of the issues (particularly, World War II , the lack of marquee talent to the battle effort, and restrictions on useful resource usage) were already foreseen by the start of the 1942 season , the league was able to concern shortened schedules from the beginning with out having to cancel already scheduled contests.… Read More...