Why no nfl doubleheader

It stuck. For more than a decade we've gotten used to the tradition, with one Monday night game starting a little too early and the other ending a little too late, a great way to finish the opening week of the NFL season. That doubleheader was conspicuously absent in this NFL schedule, released Wednesday.

There's just one "Monday Night Football" game in Week 1 this season, to the chagrin of football junkies but not so much for those who don't want to stay up past midnight Eastern time seeing if they won their first fantasy matchup of the year. There were plenty of highlights when the NFL announced the Week 1 schedule early Wednesday, as there always are.

That's it. The reasoning is strange: The NFL replaces the Week 1 doubleheader with a Week 18 Saturday doubleheader, presumably with a couple of games with playoff implications. It doesn't make a lot of sense why a Week 1 Monday doubleheader and a Week 18 Saturday doubleheader couldn't coexist, but there are television contract considerations. It just means an extra game on the opening Sunday of the NFL season.

With some more sleep on Monday night. Iole: Charles Oliveira is a master of submission. Michael Jordan reveals last text with Kobe Bryant. Wetzel: Pistons pulling off all-time great tank job. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. After playing two games on Monday the opening week of the season since , low ratings might cut the number back to one. Instead, ESPN comes out even better by picking up a Saturday doubleheader the final week of the season.

Looks like ESPN will lose the second game of the week-one Monday night doubleheader but gain a hugely valuable property this season: the week 18 Saturday doubleheader on Jan. What a trade. In the last five years, the Monday night week one nightcap had a string of forgettable matchups: Tennessee-Denver, Denver-Oakland, Rams-Oakland, Chargers -Denver, Rams-San Francisco pre-either team being good with relatively poor ratings.

ET, with a doubleheader to kick off week When it comes to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Monday night doubleheader to start the season, they have played twice in the early spot, both of which occurred in the last five seasons.

The Steelers were victorious over the Washington Redskins in by score of The Steelers also played the opening game of the Monday night doubleheader last season in at the Meadowlands where they were victorious over the New York Giants by a score of Because of rescheduling games due to the global pandemic in , they were a total of four Monday night doubleheaders last season.

Those additional games occurred in Week 4, Week 6, and Week The Steelers were once again involved in the doubleheader, this time hosting the Washington Football Team in the rescheduled early game on December 7.

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