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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]
Several National Football League (NFL) games and plays throughout its history have been given names by the media, football fans, and as part of an NFL team's lore as a result of a distinctive play associated with the game, as a result of a unique outcome of or circumstance behind the game, or for other reasons that make the game notable.
Patricia Palinkas – First woman to play professional football, debuting on August 15, 1970, as a holder for her placekicker husband on the Orlando Panthers of the minor-league Atlantic Coast Football League. [7] She played two games in the preseason but left after Steve Palinkas was injured and cut from the team. [11] [12]
The concept of the NFL champion playing in an opening game was not altogether new, however. From 1934 to 1976, the first game of the pre-season was the Chicago All-Star Game , an exhibition match featuring the previous season's NFL champions against an all-rookie team of college all-stars held annually in Soldier Field in Chicago .
Nickelodeon in correlation with the National Football League, also launched a website with sports betting-like elements such as free-to-play games and risk-free gambling. [38] More specifically, users of the site would get the chance to pick who would win the game, which would in return, compare to the public pick.
In 2018 Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer became the first all-female broadcast team to call an NFL game, which they did for an Amazon Prime stream of Thursday Night Football. [27] Shannon Eastin became the first woman to officiate an NFL game in 2012, in a pre-season matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the San Diego Chargers. [28]
NBC Sunday Night Football (abbreviated as SNF) is an American weekly television broadcast of National Football League (NFL) games on NBC and Peacock in the United States. It began airing on August 6, 2006, with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, [1] which opened that year's preseason.
1995 San Diego Chargers–New York Giants game; 2006 Chicago Bears–Arizona Cardinals game; 2007 New England Patriots–New York Giants game; 2018 Kansas City Chiefs–Los Angeles Rams game; 2021 Tampa Bay Buccaneers–New England Patriots game; 2022 Indianapolis Colts–Minnesota Vikings game