NFL TV map and game info -week 17

[jfkbengals]

(12-27-2023, 07:57 PM)pally Wrote: They play on Sundays all season long and on Saturday once the college football season ends.  This isn't new.  When would you have them play if they can't on Sunday because of NYE

Yes, those have always been the days. But regularly playing on those holidays is a relatively new thing.  There was a point that the regular season concluded prior to Christmas, and they didn't play playoff games on Christmas day.  A Sunday Christmas made games happen on Saturday, or split between Saturday and Monday.  Bengals Vikings in '89 was, I believe, the first time they played a regular season game on Christmas.  For a long while they would push everything to Saturday if Christmas day fell on Sunday.  Playoff games could fall on NYE, but they were over early.  But they have since pushed the start of the season back, and added regular season and playoff games.  Now they are actively scheduling 3 games on Christmas day, and playing a full slate of regular season games on NYE, with still another week of regular season games to follow.  Like I said, it wasn't always this way.