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The 2008 NFL season was the 89th regular season of the National Football League (NFL), themed with the slogan "Believe in Now.". Super Bowl XLIII, the league's championship game, was at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on February 1, 2009, [2] with the Pittsburgh Steelers coming out victorious over the Arizona Cardinals 27–23 and winning their NFL-record sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy.
It consists of 272 games, with each of the NFL's 32 teams playing 17 games during an 18-week period with one "bye" week off. Since 2012, the NFL generally schedules games in five time slots during the week. The first game of the week is played on Thursday night, kicking off at 8:15 PM except for the kickoff game and thanksgiving games which ...
The NFL returned to the use of the bye week in 1990 [7] so as to extend the 16-game regular season schedule to span 17 weeks to increase the number of viewable games for television contracts. The 1993 season spanned 18 weeks with each team having 2 bye weeks; it went back to 17 weeks with a bye week the next season through 2020 .
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.
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The NFL usually doesn't assemble uniform bye weeks, a quirky fact of life that's a little frustrating. Over the next 10 weeks, the number of teams on bye will fluctuate. In a couple of weeks ...
The NFL expanded its playoff field from 12 to 14 ahead of the 2020 NFL season, making the 2021 NFL playoffs the first time only one team had not gotten a bye week.
Coming off their bye week, the Titans went home for a Week 8 AFC South rematch with the Jacksonville Jaguars. In this game, quarterback Vince Young would make his first start since Week 1 of the 2008 NFL season. Tennessee got off to a fast start in the first quarter with kicker Rob Bironas booting a 48-yard field goal.