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TNF - bengalguy71 - 11-28-2019
I thought the NFL made it a rule that all teams have to play a Thursday night game?
RE: TNF - SunsetBengal - 11-28-2019
Don't know, perhaps one of us should break down and look it up..
RE: TNF - SunsetBengal - 11-28-2019
This is all that NFL scheduling has to say about Thursday Night Games.
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Teams scheduled to play on Thursday nights will not have to play a short week Thursday more than once a season. The league tries to limit the number of consecutive road games any team plays to two games, with emphasis at the beginning and end of the season.
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TNF - bjf123 - 11-28-2019
(11-28-2019, 09:07 PM)bengalguy71 Wrote: I thought the NFL made it a rule that all teams have to play a Thursday night game?
I think it’s every team has to appear on either TNF or MNF.
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RE: TNF - BengalChris - 11-28-2019
(11-28-2019, 09:07 PM)bengalguy71 Wrote: I thought the NFL made it a rule that all teams have to play a Thursday night game?
Perhaps the schedulers saw the Bengals debacle coming.
I believe that a team must have at least one prime time game.
With the Bengals they had theirs against Pittsburgh where they promptly blew chunks all over the Heine's Field while Mike Brown was snoozing in his box. I guess the ketchup was bad.
RE: TNF - Ravage - 11-29-2019
(11-28-2019, 10:35 PM)bjf123 Wrote: I think it’s every team has to appear on either TNF or MNF.
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Add in SNF as well and I'm pretty sure this is the answer.
The NFL decided that every team would get at least one primetime game a season. The addition of Thursday games easily made that a reality. That was the stipulation in regards to scheduling, not that every team gets a Thursday game.