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The following is a detailed list of results and scores from National Football League (NFL) games aired on NBC under the game package NBC Sunday Night Football. The list includes both regular season and post-season game results, both produced by NBC Sports , from the 2006 NFL season to the present.
In the National Football League (NFL), a tied game occurs when a regular season game ends with both teams having an equal score after one 10-minute overtime period. [1] [2] Ties have counted as a half-win and half-loss in league standings since 1972; before that, ties were not counted in the standings at all. [3]
The post-season schedule was moved back a week, including Super Bowl XXXVI (the NFL temporarily eliminated the bye week before the Super Bowl for the 2001 and 2002 after moving the start of the season back a week, leaving them with no choice but to push the game back a week after the earlier postponements.)
NFL playoff overtime rules. If the score is tied after regulation, there's another coin toss. Here's what the rules are: The overtime period is 15 minutes long. It is 10 minutes in the regular season.
In 1987, the NFL began regularly scheduling games for Sunday nights to be aired on ESPN during the second half (Weeks 10–18) of the season. The league expanded these games to the entire season in 1990 , though the first half (Weeks 1–9) of the season was televised on TNT , while ESPN continued to carry the second half (Weeks 10–18).
In college football & Texas high school football, the clock restarts upon the snap of the ball when the clock was stopped with less than 2:00 left in either half. The NFL rule is the same as in the college game for the first half of games, but the clock restarts upon the snap when there is under 5:00 left in the 4th quarter/overtime.
Through the first four weeks of the 2010 NFL season, Sunday Night Football had an average viewership of 22.9 million viewers, the most for the first four weeks of a prime time NFL package in 14 years (since ABC earned a 24.0 million average viewership in 1996 on four broadcasts of Monday Night Football). [105] [106]
NFL Primetime is a sports television program that has aired on ESPN since 1987. The show is presented similarly to ESPN's own SportsCenter, featuring scores, highlights, and analysis of every game of the week in the NFL. When it debuted in 1987, the show aired every Sunday night during the NFL season.