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The following is a list of games that have been canceled and rescheduled by the National Football League (NFL) since 1933. While canceling games was extremely common prior to this date, since that year, the NFL has only canceled regular season games four times, two of them for labor disputes between the league and the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA).
The National Football League television blackout policies are the strictest among the four major professional sports leagues in North America.. The NFL maintained a blackout policy, from 1973 through 2014, that stated that a home game cannot be televised in the team's local market if 85 percent of the tickets are not sold out 72 hours before the starting time of the match.
The Canadian Football League's constitution does provide the option for teams to black out games in their home markets in order to encourage attendance; at one point, the CFL required games to be blacked out within a radius of 120 kilometres (75 miles) around the closest over-the-air signal carrying the game, or 56 kilometres (35 miles) of the stadium for cable broadcasts (and, for the ...
“Due to public safety concerns in light of the ongoing weather emergency in western New York, Sunday’s Steelers-Bills game has been rescheduled to Monday at 4:30 p.m. ET and will be televised ...
Getting caught fixing a game would cost the NFL billions — not to mention potential jail time. Why would it risk that to gain a percentage point or two for a TV network?
CBS’s Week 2 Bengals-Chiefs matchup was the most-watched September NFL game since 1998 with nearly 28 million viewers. NFL games last year were 93 of the top 100 most-watched TV broadcasts .
The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 affects Title 15 of the United States Code, Chapter 32 "Telecasting of Professional Sports Contest" (§§ 1291-1295) [1] The act amended antitrust laws to allow, among others, sports leagues to pool the broadcasting rights by all their teams and sign league-wide exclusive contracts with national networks.
National Football League (NFL): In the wake of the attacks, the NFL's week 2 games (September 16 and 17) were postponed and rescheduled to the end of the regular season (the weekend of January 6 and 7, 2002). The playoffs began 5 days later on January 12 and ended on February 3, 2002, with the Super Bowl, making it the first time the NFL's ...