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Since the 2006 season, the NFL has used a "flexible scheduling" system for the last seven weeks of the regular season when there is a Sunday night game. In 2014, that was expanded to include weeks 5 – 17 and since 2022 to include Monday nights on weeks 12–17 and in 2023 and 2024 to include weeks 13-17 for Thursday nights [ 4 ] . [ 5 ]
Since 2002, the league has consisted of 32 teams based across the United States. Each NFL season since 2021 has started with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week regular season which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week.
The NFL's overall attendance, however, is only approximately 20 percent of Major League Baseball, because of the latter's longer schedule (162-game scheduled regular season). [ b ] A 2007 Turnkey Sports & Entertainment's Team Brand Index for "team loyalty" ranked NFL teams in twelve of the top twenty-five spots out of 122 total between the four ...
From this point on, it's full speed ahead to the 2025 regular season and marks just over a month until the NFL draft. NFL offseason calendar 2025 Franchise tag window opens: Feb. 18
The NFL playoffs begin with super wild-card weekend: a six-game slate that runs from Saturday, Jan. 11 to Monday, Jan. 13. This year, it will feature two games on Saturday, three games on Sunday ...
When does 2024 NFL regular season begin? The NFL season begins Thursday, Sept. 5 with the NFL Kickoff game between the Ravens and Chiefs. It is a rematch of last year's AFC championship game, won ...
NFL regular season games accounted for 31 out of the top 32 most-watched programs in the fall season and an NFL game ranked as the most-watched television show in all 17 weeks of the regular season. At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time. [130]
After the merger of the NFL with the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1949, the opening game of the 1950 NFL season was a Saturday night showcase game between the NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles and the AAFC champion Cleveland Browns. Billed as the "World Series of Pro Football" the game matched the four-time champion Browns against ...