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For a list of all seasons, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Football_League_seasons" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Football League seasons">List of National Football League seasons</a>.</div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> (NFL) <a href="/wiki/Regular_season" class="mw-redirect" title="Regular season">regular season</a> begins on the weekend following the first Monday of September (i.e., the weekend following the <a href="/wiki/Labor_Day_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor Day (United States)">Labor Day</a> holiday) and ends in early January, after which that season's <a href="/wiki/NFL_playoffs" title="NFL playoffs">playoffs tournament</a> begins. It consists of 272 games, with each of the NFL's 32 teams playing 17 games during an 18-week period with one "<a href="/wiki/Bye_(sports)" title="Bye (sports)">bye" week</a> off. </p><p>Since 2012, the NFL generally schedules games in five time slots during the week. The first game of the week is <a href="/wiki/Thursday_Night_Football" title="Thursday Night Football">played on Thursday night</a>, kicking off at 8:15 PM (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">ET</a>) except for the kickoff game and thanksgiving games which kick off at 8:20 PM. The majority of games are played on Sunday, most kicking off at 1PM (ET), with some late afternoon games starting at either 4:05 or 4:25 PM (ET). Additionally, <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football" title="NBC Sunday Night Football">one Sunday night game</a> is played every week at 8:20 PM (ET). Finally, one or two <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday night games</a> start at 8:15 PM (ET) (if two games are played one of the games will start at 7:30 PM or 9 PM). In addition to these regularly scheduled games, there are occasionally games at other times, such as a Saturday afternoon or evening, the annual <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Thanksgiving_Day" title="NFL on Thanksgiving Day">Thanksgiving Day games</a> in which two daytime Thursday games are played in addition to the normal Thursday night game, and since 2023 a Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving) afternoon game. </p><p>In place since 2006, the current broadcasting contract establishes broadcast partners for each game. The Sunday afternoon games are broadcast either on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> or <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a>. CBS has the broadcast rights for teams in the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">American Football Conference</a> while Fox has the rights for teams in the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">National Football Conference</a>. In games where teams from both conferences play each other, the network with the broadcast rights for the "away" team will broadcast the game. In each <a href="/wiki/Media_market" title="Media market">local television market</a>, three Sunday afternoon games are shown. One of the two networks shows two games back-to-back in each time slot, while the other network has the right to broadcast a single game, showing one game in either time slot; the networks generally alternate weeks (but not always) when each has the right to show both games. </p><p>In addition to the regular Sunday afternoon games, there are three <a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">prime time</a> games each week. With the exception of the <a href="/wiki/NFL_Kickoff_Game" title="NFL Kickoff Game">NFL Kickoff Game</a> and the Thanksgiving night game, which are broadcast by <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">NBC</a>, the Thursday night game is broadcast by <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Prime_Video" title="NFL on Prime Video">Amazon Prime Video</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-deadline-tnf2016nbccbs_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deadline-tnf2016nbccbs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Sunday night game is broadcast by <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">NBC</a>, while the Monday night game is broadcast by <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_ESPN" title="NFL on ESPN">ESPN</a>/<a href="/wiki/NFL_on_ABC" title="NFL on ABC">ABC</a>. The Black Friday game is also broadcast by Prime Video. </p><p>The NFL uses a strict scheduling <a href="/wiki/Algorithm" title="Algorithm">algorithm</a> to determine which teams play each other from year to year, based on the current division alignments and the final division standings from the previous season. The current formula has been in place since <a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_season" title="2021 NFL season">2021</a>, the last year that the NFL expanded its regular season. Generally, each team plays the other three teams in its own <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League#Teams" title="National Football League">division</a> once at home and once away, all four teams from a single division in the AFC once, all four teams from a single division in the NFC once, two additional intraconference games, and one additional interconference game. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Game_times">Game times</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Game times"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television" title="NFL on television">NFL on television</a></div> <p>Since 1990, the majority of NFL regular-season games are played on Sundays at 1:00 pm, or around 4:05 to 4:25pm <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">ET</a> (see below). The late afternoon (ET) window is usually reserved for games hosted in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone" title="Pacific Time Zone">Pacific Time Zone</a> or <a href="/wiki/Mountain_Time_Zone" title="Mountain Time Zone">Mountain Time Zone</a>, plus one or more marquee contests. The current NFL television contract awards the American broadcast of these games to Fox or CBS, usually with Fox showing games where the visiting team is from the NFC, and CBS showing games where the visiting team is from the AFC. Each of these Sunday afternoon games is televised on a regional basis to a few or several areas around the country, therefore each viewer can only see a maximum two games at each window on broadcast, whereas the remaining games are exclusive to the <a href="/wiki/NFL_Sunday_Ticket" title="NFL Sunday Ticket">NFL Sunday Ticket</a> premium package. </p><p>Every Sunday of the regular season, either CBS or Fox air two games in a doubleheader package, while the other network may show only one game (with the exception of weeks 1 and 18 in which they both get a doubleheader). Late games scheduled to air on the network showing only one game are scheduled to start at 4:05pm ET, while the second game of a doubleheader will kick off later at 4:25pm; this is to reduce conflicts with 1:00pm games that have run late.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The schedule allows for four other regular time slots, in which these games are broadcast nationally across the country: </p> <ol><li>One <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football" title="NBC Sunday Night Football">Sunday night</a> game, which has been regularly scheduled since 1987, and has aired on NBC since 2006.</li> <li>One <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday Night Football</a> game, which has been regularly scheduled since 1970, and has been appearing on ESPN since 2006. Also from 2006 to 2020, two games were on the first Monday of the season. The practice of holding a Monday night game during the last week of the season ended after the 2002 season due to low ratings and a competitive imbalance involved for potential playoff teams who would have one less day of rest before the postseason. With the expansion of the season to 18 weeks in 2021, no Week 1 <i>MNF</i> doubleheader was scheduled that season.</li> <li>Since 2002, the league has also scheduled games on Thursday nights. This is in addition to the <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_Thanksgiving_Day" title="NFL on Thanksgiving Day">Thanksgiving Day games</a> traditionally hosted by Detroit (since 1920) and Dallas (since 1966). Starting in 2002 the <a href="/wiki/NFL_Kickoff_Game" title="NFL Kickoff Game">NFL Kickoff Game</a>, traditionally hosted by the defending Super Bowl champions, has been held on the Thursday preceding the start of the rest of the games. Since 2006, additional Thursday night games have been added to the season (with the games counting as part of the "week" including the upcoming Sunday), at first only after Thanksgiving, and since 2012, during nearly every week of the season.</li> <li>Some late season games in every season since 1970, except for 2013, have been played on Saturdays.<sup id="cite_ref-Act1961_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Act1961-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <p>Since the 2006 season, the NFL has used a "<a href="/wiki/NFL_on_television#Flexible_scheduling" title="NFL on television">flexible scheduling</a>" system for the last seven weeks of the regular season when there is a Sunday night game. In 2014, that was expanded to include weeks 5 – 17.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This flexible scheduling allows for regional games originally scheduled for Sunday afternoon to be moved to the marquee Sunday Night matchup, to be broadcast to a national audience instead. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table align="right" class="wikitable" style="margin: 0 1em 1em 1em; font-size: 95%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Number of regular season games per team </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1935_NFL_season" title="1935 NFL season">1935</a>–<a href="/wiki/1936_NFL_season" title="1936 NFL season">1936</a> </td> <td>12 games </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1937_NFL_season" title="1937 NFL season">1937</a>–<a href="/wiki/1942_NFL_season" title="1942 NFL season">1942</a> </td> <td>11 games (12 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1943_NFL_season" title="1943 NFL season">1943</a>–<a href="/wiki/1945_NFL_season" title="1945 NFL season">1945</a> </td> <td>10 games (12 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1946_NFL_season" title="1946 NFL season">1946</a> </td> <td>11 games (12 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1947_NFL_season" title="1947 NFL season">1947</a>–<a href="/wiki/1960_NFL_season" title="1960 NFL season">1960</a> </td> <td>12 games (variable weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1961_NFL_season" title="1961 NFL season">1961</a>–<a href="/wiki/1965_NFL_season" title="1965 NFL season">1965</a> </td> <td>14 games (14 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1966_NFL_season" title="1966 NFL season">1966</a> </td> <td>14 games (15 weeks, odd number of teams) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1967_NFL_season" title="1967 NFL season">1967</a>–<a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a> </td> <td>14 games (14 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978</a>–<a href="/wiki/1981_NFL_season" title="1981 NFL season">1981</a> </td> <td>16 games (16 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1982_NFL_season" title="1982 NFL season">1982</a> </td> <td>9 games (17 weeks, strike) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_NFL_season" title="1983 NFL season">1983</a>–<a href="/wiki/1986_NFL_season" title="1986 NFL season">1986</a> </td> <td>16 games (16 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1987_NFL_season" title="1987 NFL season">1987</a> </td> <td>15 games (16 weeks, strike) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1988_NFL_season" title="1988 NFL season">1988</a>–<a href="/wiki/1989_NFL_season" title="1989 NFL season">1989</a> </td> <td>16 games (16 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1990_NFL_season" title="1990 NFL season">1990</a>–<a href="/wiki/1992_NFL_season" title="1992 NFL season">1992</a> </td> <td>16 games (17 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1993_NFL_season" title="1993 NFL season">1993</a> </td> <td>16 games (18 weeks, additional bye week) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1994_NFL_season" title="1994 NFL season">1994</a>–<a href="/wiki/2000_NFL_season" title="2000 NFL season">2000</a> </td> <td>16 games (17 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_NFL_season" title="2001 NFL season">2001</a> </td> <td>16 games (18 weeks, <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2002_NFL_season" title="2002 NFL season">2002</a>–<a href="/wiki/2020_NFL_season" title="2020 NFL season">2020</a> </td> <td>16 games (17 weeks) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_season" title="2021 NFL season">2021</a>–present </td> <td>17 games (18 weeks) </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In its early years after <a href="/wiki/1920_NFL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1920 NFL season">1920</a>, the NFL did not have a set schedule, and teams played as few as eight and as many as sixteen games, many against independent professional, college, or amateur teams. From <a href="/wiki/1926_NFL_season" title="1926 NFL season">1926</a> through <a href="/wiki/1946_NFL_season" title="1946 NFL season">1946</a>, they played from eleven to fourteen games per season, depending on the number of teams in the league. From <a href="/wiki/1947_NFL_season" title="1947 NFL season">1947</a> through <a href="/wiki/1960_NFL_season" title="1960 NFL season">1960</a>, each NFL team played 12 games per season. The <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a> began play in <a href="/wiki/1960_American_Football_League_season" title="1960 American Football League season">1960</a> and introduced a balanced schedule of 14 games per team over a fifteen-week season, in which each of the eight teams played each of the other teams twice, with one bye week. Competition from the new league caused the NFL to expand and follow suit with a fourteen-game schedule in <a href="/wiki/1961_NFL_season" title="1961 NFL season">1961</a>. </p><p>Also in 1961, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">U.S. Congress</a> passed the <a href="/wiki/Sports_Broadcasting_Act_of_1961" title="Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961">Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961</a> in response to a court decision which ruled that the NFL's method of negotiating television broadcasting rights violated <a href="/wiki/Antitrust_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Antitrust law">antitrust laws</a>. The law allows the league to sell the rights to all regular season and postseason games to the networks, but prohibits the league from directly competing with high school and college football games. Since high school and college teams typically play games on Friday and Saturday, respectively, the NFL cannot hold games on those days until those seasons generally end in mid-December.<sup id="cite_ref-Sports_Law_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sports_Law-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From <a href="/wiki/1961_NFL_season" title="1961 NFL season">1961</a> through <a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a>, the NFL schedule consisted of fourteen regular season games played over fourteen weeks, except in <a href="/wiki/1966_NFL_season" title="1966 NFL season">1966</a>. Opening weekend typically was the weekend after <a href="/wiki/Labor_Day_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor Day (United States)">Labor Day</a>, or rarely two weekends after Labor Day. Teams played six or seven exhibition games. In 1966 (and 1960), the NFL had an odd number of franchises, so one team was idle each week. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978</a>, the league changed the schedule to include sixteen regular season games and four exhibition games. From 1978 through <a href="/wiki/1989_NFL_season" title="1989 NFL season">1989</a>, the sixteen games were played over sixteen weeks. </p><p>Prior to <a href="/wiki/1982_NFL_season" title="1982 NFL season">1982</a>, Sunday afternoon games hosted in the <a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">Central Time Zone</a> instead primarily kicked off at 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm local time. The home games of the then-<a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Baltimore_Colts" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Baltimore Colts">Baltimore Colts</a> also typically kicked off at 2:00 pm ET due to Maryland's <a href="/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States" title="Blue laws in the United States">blue laws</a> at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 1982, Central Time Zone games have primarily started at noon CT with the rest of the 1:00 p.m. ET early games. Colts home games also moved to 4:00 p.m. ET with the rest of the late afternoon games until <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Colts_relocation_to_Indianapolis" title="Baltimore Colts relocation to Indianapolis">the team's relocation to Indianapolis in 1984</a>. Maryland's blue laws were later modified, allowing <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Baltimore_Ravens" title="History of the Baltimore Ravens">the Baltimore Ravens</a> to play their home games at 1:00 p.m. ET since their 1996 inaugural season. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1990_NFL_season" title="1990 NFL season">1990</a>, the NFL re-introduced a <a href="/wiki/Bye_(sports)" title="Bye (sports)">bye week</a> to the schedule, which it had not had since 1966. Each team played sixteen regular season games over seventeen weeks. During the season, on a rotating basis, each team would have the weekend off. As a result, opening weekend was moved up to Labor Day weekend. The league had an odd number of teams (31) from <a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_season" title="1999 NFL season">1999</a> to <a href="/wiki/2001_NFL_season" title="2001 NFL season">2001</a>. During that period, at least one team had to be given a bye on any given week. For the <a href="/wiki/1993_NFL_season" title="1993 NFL season">1993</a> season, the league experimented with the schedule by adding a second bye week for each team, resulting in an 18-week regular season. In 2001, the September 11th attacks resulted in the league postponing its Week 2 games, leading to another 18-week season. A seventeenth regular season game was added in <a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_season" title="2021 NFL season">2021</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the <a href="/wiki/2002_NFL_season" title="2002 NFL season">2002</a> season, the league has scheduled a nationally televised regular season <a href="/wiki/NFL_Kickoff_game" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL Kickoff game">kickoff game</a> on the Thursday night after Labor Day, prior to the first Sunday of NFL games to kick off the season. The first one, featuring <a href="/wiki/2002_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="2002 San Francisco 49ers season">the San Francisco 49ers</a> and <a href="/wiki/2002_New_York_Giants_season" title="2002 New York Giants season">the New York Giants</a>, was held on September 5, 2002, largely to celebrate New York City's resilience in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="September 11, 2001 attacks">September 11, 2001 attacks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 2004, the NFL has indicated that the opening game will normally be hosted by the defending Super Bowl champions as the official start of their title defense. Under this scheduling system, the earliest the regular season could begin is September 4, as it was in the <a href="/wiki/2008_NFL_season" title="2008 NFL season">2008</a> and <a href="/wiki/2014_NFL_season" title="2014 NFL season">2014</a> seasons, due to September 1 falling on a Monday, while the latest possible is September 10, as it was in the <a href="/wiki/2009_NFL_season" title="2009 NFL season">2009</a>, <a href="/wiki/2015_NFL_season" title="2015 NFL season">2015</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2020_NFL_season" title="2020 NFL season">2020</a> seasons, due to September 1 falling on a Tuesday. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_scheduling_formula">Current scheduling formula</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Current scheduling formula"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:350px;"> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th><abbr title="Position">POS</abbr></th> <th>AFC East</th> <th>AFC North</th> <th>AFC South</th> <th>AFC West </th></tr> <tr> <td>1st</td> <td style="background-color:#ffaa00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Buffalo_Bills_season" title="2023 Buffalo Bills season">Bills</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Baltimore_Ravens_season" title="2023 Baltimore Ravens season">Ravens</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffaa00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Houston_Texans_season" title="2023 Houston Texans season">Texans</a></td> <td style="background-color:#00ff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="2023 Kansas City Chiefs season">Chiefs</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2nd</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="2023 Miami Dolphins season">Dolphins</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Cleveland_Browns_season" title="2023 Cleveland Browns season">Browns</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Jacksonville_Jaguars_season" title="2023 Jacksonville Jaguars season">Jaguars</a></td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6"><a href="/wiki/2023_Las_Vegas_Raiders_season" title="2023 Las Vegas Raiders season">Raiders</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3rd</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_New_York_Jets_season" title="2023 New York Jets season">Jets</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="2023 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Steelers</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Indianapolis_Colts_season" title="2023 Indianapolis Colts season">Colts</a></td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6"><a href="/wiki/2023_Denver_Broncos_season" title="2023 Denver Broncos season">Broncos</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>4th</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_New_England_Patriots_season" title="2023 New England Patriots season">Patriots</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Cincinnati_Bengals_season" title="2023 Cincinnati Bengals season">Bengals</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2023 Tennessee Titans season">Titans</a></td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Chargers" title="Los Angeles Chargers">Chargers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th><abbr title="Position">POS</abbr></th> <th>NFC East</th> <th>NFC North</th> <th>NFC South</th> <th>NFC West </th></tr> <tr> <td>1st</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="2023 Dallas Cowboys season">Cowboys</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Detroit_Lions_season" title="2023 Detroit Lions season">Lions</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_season" title="2023 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season">Buccaneers</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffcccc"><a href="/wiki/2023_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="2023 San Francisco 49ers season">49ers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2nd</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Philadelphia_Eagles_season" title="2023 Philadelphia Eagles season">Eagles</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Green_Bay_Packers_season" title="2023 Green Bay Packers season">Packers</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_New_Orleans_Saints_season" title="2023 New Orleans Saints season">Saints</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Los_Angeles_Rams_season" title="2023 Los Angeles Rams season">Rams</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3rd</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_New_York_Giants_season" title="2023 New York Giants season">Giants</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Minnesota_Vikings_season" title="2023 Minnesota Vikings season">Vikings</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Atlanta_Falcons_season" title="2023 Atlanta Falcons season">Falcons</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Seattle_Seahawks_season" title="2023 Seattle Seahawks season">Seahawks</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>4th</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Washington_Commanders_season" title="2023 Washington Commanders season">Commanders</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Chicago_Bears_season" title="2023 Chicago Bears season">Bears</a></td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00"><a href="/wiki/2023_Carolina_Panthers_season" title="2023 Carolina Panthers season">Panthers</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Arizona_Cardinals_season" title="2023 Arizona Cardinals season">Cardinals</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumbcaption"> This chart of the <a href="/wiki/2023_NFL_season#Regular_season_standings" title="2023 NFL season">2023 season standings</a> displays an application of the NFL scheduling formula. <a href="/wiki/2023_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="2023 Kansas City Chiefs season">The Chiefs in 2023</a> (highlighted in green) finished in first place in the <a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a>. Thus, <a href="/wiki/2024_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="2024 Kansas City Chiefs season">in 2024</a>, the Chiefs will play two games against each of its division rivals (highlighted in light blue), one game against each team in the <a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">AFC North</a> and <a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">NFC South</a> (highlighted in yellow), and one game each against the first-place finishers in the <a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">AFC East</a>, <a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">AFC South</a> (highlighted in orange) and <a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> (highlighted in pink).</div> </div> </div> <p>Currently, the fourteen different opponents each team faces over the 17-game regular season schedule are set using a pre-determined formula:<sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Each team plays twice against each of the other three teams in its division: once at home, and once on the road (six games).</li> <li>Each team plays once against each of the four teams from a predetermined division (based on a three-year rotation) within its own conference: two at home, and two on the road (four games).</li> <li>Each team plays once against one team from the remaining two divisions within its conference that finished in a similar placement in the final divisional standings in the prior season:<sup id="cite_ref-Division_standing_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Division_standing-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> one at home, one on the road (two games).</li> <li>Each team plays once against each of the four teams from a predetermined division (based on a four-year rotation) in the other conference: two at home, and two on the road (four games).</li> <li>Each team also plays an extra interconference "17th game" against one team from the division in the other conference it played two years before that. Additionally, this team must have finished in a similar placement in the final divisional standings in the prior season<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (one game).</li></ul> <p>Under this formula, all teams are guaranteed to play every other team in their own conference at least once every three years, and to play every team in the other conference at least once every four years. The formula also guarantees a similar schedule for every team in a division each season, as all four teams will play fourteen out of their seventeen games against common opponents or each other. </p><p>Non-divisional intraconference match-ups can occur over consecutive years if two teams happen to finish in the same place consistently. For example, even though <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_Colts" title="Indianapolis Colts">the Colts</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_England_Patriots" title="New England Patriots">Patriots</a> are in different divisions within the same conference, the two teams played each other every season between 2003 and 2012, largely because both teams often finished in first place in their divisions each previous season. Similarly, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">Jets</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Browns</a> played each other every season between 2015 and 2020 because both teams often landed in fourth place in their divisions.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Outside intradivisional match-ups (each of which is played twice-yearly), the home team for each match-up is also determined by the league according to a set rotation designed to largely alternate home and away designations over successive years.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This rotation was slightly adjusted in 2010 for teams playing against the <a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> and <a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a>, after several east-coast teams (such as <a href="/wiki/2008_New_England_Patriots_season" title="2008 New England Patriots season">the New England Patriots</a> and <a href="/wiki/2008_New_York_Jets_season" title="2008 New York Jets season">New York Jets</a> in <a href="/wiki/2008_NFL_season" title="2008 NFL season">2008</a>) all had to make four cross-country trips to play games in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> in one season.<sup id="cite_ref-ESPNWestCoast_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ESPNWestCoast-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although this scheduling formula determines each of the thirty-two teams' respective opponents, the league usually does not release the final regular schedule with specific dates and times until the spring; the NFL needs several months to coordinate the entire season schedule to align with various secondary objectives — such as accommodating various scheduling conflicts, not forcing teams to play too many consecutive games at home or on the road, avoiding giving any one team significantly more rest time than their opponent, and maximizing potential TV ratings.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since <a href="/wiki/2010_NFL_season" title="2010 NFL season">2010</a>, every regular season ends with only divisional match-ups in the final week, in an attempt to discourage playoff-bound teams from resting their starters and playing their reserves.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Past_formulas">Past formulas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Past formulas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Between <a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_season" title="1970 NFL season">1970</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2002_NFL_season" title="2002 NFL season">2002</a> expansion to 32 teams, the league used scheduling rubrics with similarities to the present model, though they were adjusted for the number of teams and divisions. </p><p>The only time between <a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">the merger</a> and 2002 (when the league was realigned into eight divisions of four teams each) that the league was completely "balanced" was in 1995 to 1998 (with six divisions of five teams each). When the league did not have equal numbers of teams in every division, every team's opposition could not be determined by the same means. </p><p>While teams playing against their division rivals twice each has been a tradition since <a href="/wiki/1933_NFL_season" title="1933 NFL season">1933</a>, when divisions were first introduced (the first standardized schedule), not all teams would play the same number of divisional games due to the imbalances noted in the preceding paragraph: for example, the AFC Central between 1999 and 2001 consisted of six teams as a partial result of the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns_relocation_controversy" title="Cleveland Browns relocation controversy">Cleveland Browns relocation controversy</a>, requiring teams to play ten intradivision games in a 16-game schedule. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970_to_1977">1970 to 1977</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1970 to 1977"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the merger, every team in the Central and West divisions of each conference would play six division games, five non-division conference games, and three interconference games, except one team in each conference who played a fourth interconference game to balance the fourteen-game schedule.<sup id="cite_ref-Pro6062_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pro6062-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Teams in the East divisions would play eight division games, three non-division conference games, and three interconference games. For each conference, four groups of opponents were set: </p> <ol><li>A set of three interconference opponents, who would theoretically formed a repeating cycle every thirteen seasons, with each matchup occurring three times per cycle<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pro6062_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pro6062-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>For Central and West division teams playing three interconference games: two intraconference opponents from the five-team East Division of their own conference, theoretically rotating every five seasons</li> <li>For Central and West division teams playing four interconference games: one intraconference opponent from the five-team East Division of their own conference<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>For all East division teams: three intraconference opponents rotating on a cycle of five years or longer.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <p>In <a href="/wiki/1976_NFL_season" title="1976 NFL season">1976</a> and <a href="/wiki/1977_NFL_season" title="1977 NFL season">1977</a>, one interconference game was deleted from almost all teams’ schedules to make room for games against the expansion <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Seattle_Seahawks" title="History of the Seattle Seahawks">Seattle Seahawks</a> or <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers" title="History of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers">Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1978_to_1994">1978 to 1994</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1978 to 1994"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/1978_NFL_season" title="1978 NFL season">1978</a>, NFL scheduling was substantially changed because the pre-setting of all opponents many years beforehand had produced extremely frequent large inequalities in strength of schedule. The NFL attempted to remedy this by basing non-division conference opponents upon position in the preceding season, so that most non-division conference games would be played between teams finishing in the same position during the preceding season. Unlike between 1970 and 1977, there would be no rotary schedule for non-division games within a team's own conference. However, interconference games remained based on a rotation, with most teams now playing four opponents from a division in the other conference on a three-year cycle.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was a special so-called "last place" or "fifth-place" schedule for teams who finished in last place in a five-team division. In addition to their division games, a team who finished in last place in the previous season would also primarily play the other teams who finished in last place in their respective divisions (the intraconference one would be played twice to fill a void otherwise taken by a third team that finished the same place), plus all the clubs in the four team division in their conference. An example of this is also shown to the right. Teams in a four-team division<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> played only six divisional games, as opposed to the eight that teams in five-team divisions had played. This void would be filled by having to play against the fifth-place teams in their conference in addition to their regular scheduling, hence tying to the fifth-place schedule.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:280px;"> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>POS</th> <th>AFC East</th> <th>AFC Central</th> <th>AFC West </th></tr> <tr> <td>1st</td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6">Bills</td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00">Bengals</td> <td>Raiders </td></tr> <tr> <td>2nd</td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6">Dolphins</td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00">Oilers</td> <td>Chiefs </td></tr> <tr> <td>3rd</td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6">Colts</td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00">Steelers</td> <td>Seahawks </td></tr> <tr> <td>4th</td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6">Jets</td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00">Browns</td> <td>Chargers </td></tr> <tr> <td>5th</td> <td style="background-color:#00ff00">Patriots</td> <td style="background-color:#888888"> </td> <td style="background-color:orange">Broncos </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>POS</th> <th>NFC East</th> <th>NFC Central</th> <th>NFC West </th></tr> <tr> <td>1st</td> <td>Giants</td> <td>Bears</td> <td>49ers </td></tr> <tr> <td>2nd</td> <td>Eagles</td> <td>Buccaneers</td> <td>Saints </td></tr> <tr> <td>3rd</td> <td>Redskins</td> <td>Lions</td> <td>Rams </td></tr> <tr> <td>4th</td> <td>Cowboys</td> <td>Packers</td> <td>Falcons </td></tr> <tr> <td>5th</td> <td style="background-color:#ffaaaa">Cardinals</td> <td style="background-color:#ffaaaa">Vikings</td> <td style="background-color:#888888">  </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumbcaption"> This is an example of the formula used for determining opponents for teams that finished in last place in each of the five-team divisions between 1978 and 1994, when the league consisted of 28 teams playing 16 games each. <a href="/wiki/1990_New_England_Patriots_season" title="1990 New England Patriots season">The 1990 New England Patriots</a> finished in last place in the <a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">AFC East</a>. Therefore, in <a href="/wiki/1991_NFL_season" title="1991 NFL season">1991</a>, they played all of their division rivals (marked in blue) twice each, one game against each team in the four-team <a href="/wiki/AFC_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="AFC Central">AFC Central</a> (marked in yellow), two games against the last-place finisher in the <a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a> (marked in orange), and one game each against the last-place finishers in the <a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">NFC East</a> and <a href="/wiki/NFC_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="NFC Central">NFC Central</a> (marked in red).</div> </div> </div> <div class="thumb tleft"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:280px;"> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>POS</th> <th>AFC East</th> <th>AFC Central</th> <th>AFC West </th></tr> <tr> <td>1st</td> <td>Patriots</td> <td>Steelers</td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00">Broncos </td></tr> <tr> <td>2nd</td> <td>Bills</td> <td>Jaguars</td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00">Chiefs </td></tr> <tr> <td>3rd</td> <td>Colts</td> <td>Bengals</td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00">Chargers </td></tr> <tr> <td>4th</td> <td>Dolphins</td> <td>Oilers</td> <td style="background-color:silver"><i>Raiders</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>5th</td> <td>Jets</td> <td>Ravens</td> <td style="background-color:#ffff00">Seahawks </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>POS</th> <th>NFC East</th> <th>NFC Central</th> <th>NFC West </th></tr> <tr> <td>1st</td> <td style="background-color:#ffaaaa">Cowboys</td> <td>Packers</td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6">Panthers </td></tr> <tr> <td>2nd</td> <td style="background-color:#ffaa00">Eagles</td> <td style="background-color:#ffaa00">Vikings</td> <td style="background-color:#00ff00">49ers </td></tr> <tr> <td>3rd</td> <td>Redskins</td> <td>Bears</td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6">Rams </td></tr> <tr> <td>4th</td> <td>Cardinals</td> <td style="background-color:#ffaaaa">Buccaneers</td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6">Falcons </td></tr> <tr> <td>5th</td> <td>Giants</td> <td>Lions</td> <td style="background-color:#add8e6">Saints </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumbcaption"> This is an example of the formula used for determining a team's opponents between 1995 and 1998, when the league consisted of six divisions of five teams each. <a href="/wiki/1996_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="1996 San Francisco 49ers season">The 1996 San Francisco 49ers</a> finished in second place in the <a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a>. Therefore, in <a href="/wiki/1997_NFL_season" title="1997 NFL season">1997</a>, the 49ers played all their division rivals (marked in blue) twice each, one game each against the other second-place finishers in the NFC (marked in orange), one game against one additional team in the <a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">NFC East</a> and <a href="/wiki/NFC_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="NFC Central">NFC Central</a> (marked in red), and one game against each team in the <a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a> (marked in yellow) except for the 4th-place <a href="/wiki/1997_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1997 Oakland Raiders season">Raiders</a> (marked in silver).</div> </div> </div> </div> <p>During these years, teams in five-team divisions who did not finish last would not face any fifth-place team outside their division, whether or not those teams were intraconference. </p><p>This scheduling system meant that, apart from the AFC Central and NFC West, all of whose teams would regularly meet every three years, teams would not necessarily play teams outside their division on a regular basis, although teams who never finished fifth would play teams in the other conference who likewise avoided last position on the same three-season cycle. </p><p>For example, between 1970 (when the leagues merged) and 2002 (when the NFL expanded to 32 teams), the Denver Broncos and the Miami Dolphins played only six times, including a stretch where they met only once between 1976 and 1997<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> due to frequent fifth-place finishes by both teams and a cancelled 1987 game, while the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs met just four times in the same period, not playing each other at all between 1973 and 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1995_to_1998">1995 to 1998</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1995 to 1998"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the divisions were balanced between 1995 and 1998, each team would play a home and away series against their divisional rivals (8 games), two teams from each of the other divisions within the conference (two having finished the same place, and two others determined by where they placed in the standings), and four teams from a division in the other conference by the aforementioned rotary basis. Initially, team standings would determine which team in the interconference division would not be played. The team not opposed would have the "polar opposite" place (i.e.: 1st is the polar opposite of 5th) in their division, although after 1997 all teams outside the AFC Central were scheduled to play every team in the opposite conference four times (twice at home and twice away) between 1995 and 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An example of this schedule can be seen to the right. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regular_season_expansion_(2021-present)"><span id="Regular_season_expansion_.282021-present.29"></span>Regular season expansion (2021-present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Regular season expansion (2021-present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prior to the <a href="/wiki/NFL_Collective_Bargaining_Agreement#2011_agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement">2011 collective bargaining agreement</a> (CBA), there had been proposals to expand the regular season schedule to 17 or 18 games per team. However, a longer regular season proposal was defeated in the 2011 labor negotiations between the owners and the players association.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the proposals for the 17th and 18th games was to have every team play at least one game abroad every year.<sup id="cite_ref-NFL_looking_closely_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NFL_looking_closely-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another idea put forth by <a href="/wiki/Houston_Texans" title="Houston Texans">Houston Texans</a> owner <a href="/wiki/Bob_McNair" title="Bob McNair">Bob McNair</a> before his death was to move the traditional regional rivalries that are currently played in the preseason (such as the Governor's Cups) into a permanent annual part of each NFL team's schedule.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The NFL Players' Association opposed extending the season, largely because of injury concerns, and extending the season would require that such an extension be included in the next CBA. The collective bargaining agreement signed in 2011 maintained the sixteen game regular season schedule. </p><p><a href="/wiki/NFL_Collective_Bargaining_Agreement#2020_agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement">The 2020 CBA</a> allowed for an expansion of the regular season to seventeen games. The team owners voted in March 2021 to institute the expanded schedule beginning with <a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_season" title="2021 NFL season">the 2021 season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each team's 17th game will match them up against an interconference opponent from a division that specified team was not going to play against before the addition of the 17th game and from the division schedule rotation from two seasons prior, with AFC teams hosting the extra games in odd-numbered years, while NFC teams host extra games in even-numbered years.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since that time the NFL has continued to push for an 18-game regular season however the current CBA mandates a maximum 17-game season until its expiration in 2031. In addition, it also has a provision that the maximum number of international games that can be played in a season is 10 games until the 2025 season.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scheduled_division_matchups">Scheduled division matchups</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Scheduled division matchups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This chart displays the current schedule of division matchups, based on the three-year intraconference and four-year interconference rotations in place since 2002, and the additional interconference "17th game" in place since 2021. In each year, all four teams in each division listed at the top will play one game against all four teams in both of the divisions to which it has been assigned — one from the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a>, the other from the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a>. </p><p>In addition, every division is assigned to play its extra interconference game against one team from the division it played two years before.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the schedule expansion was implemented for the 2021 NFL regular season, the eighteenth and final week of the NFL regular season has involved matchups against divisional opponents for all 32 NFL teams, as it had been since 2010. </p><p>As a result, Week 18 has been unofficially termed by fans as "Rivalry Week", as the final week matchups are often games that involve the biggest rivalries in the NFL.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Season </th> <th colspan="9">Scheduled division match-ups<sup id="cite_ref-NFLBook_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NFLBook-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">AFC East</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">AFC North</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">AFC South</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">NFC East</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">NFC North</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">NFC South</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_season" title="2021 NFL season">2021</a> </th> <td bgcolor="FFA7A7" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="B7D0FF" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>17th game </th> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">NFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">NFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">NFC North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">AFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">AFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">AFC North</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/2022_NFL_season" title="2022 NFL season">2022</a> </th> <td bgcolor="FFA7A7" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="B7D0FF" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>17th game </th> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">NFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">NFC North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">NFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">AFC North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">AFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">AFC East</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/2023_NFL_season" title="2023 NFL season">2023</a> </th> <td bgcolor="FFA7A7" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="B7D0FF" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>17th game </th> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">NFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">NFC North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">NFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">AFC North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">AFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">AFC South</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/2024_NFL_season" title="2024 NFL season">2024</a> </th> <td bgcolor="FFA7A7" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="B7D0FF" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="f9f9f9" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>17th game </th> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">NFC North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">NFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">NFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">AFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">AFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">AFC North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3">2025<span class="anchor" id="2025"></span> </th> <td bgcolor="FFA7A7" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">South</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="B7D0FF" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a></b> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffffff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">South</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>17th game </th> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">NFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_South" title="NFC South">NFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="d0e7ff" align="center"><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">NFC North</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">AFC East</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">AFC West</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_South" title="AFC South">AFC South</a> </td> <td bgcolor="ffcccc" align="center"><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">AFC North</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regular_season_games_played_outside_the_U.S.">Regular season games played outside the U.S.</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Regular season games played outside the U.S."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/NFL_International_Series" title="NFL International Series">NFL International Series</a></div> <p>To date, several NFL regular season games have been played outside the U.S. The first was <a href="/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_Americano" title="Fútbol Americano">the 2005 game</a> between <a href="/wiki/2005_Arizona_Cardinals_season" title="2005 Arizona Cardinals season">the Arizona Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/2005_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="2005 San Francisco 49ers season">the San Francisco 49ers</a>, which was played in <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>. </p><p>In October 2006, NFL club owners approved a plan to stage up to two international regular season games per season beginning in 2007 and continuing through at least 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-internationalPlan_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-internationalPlan-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/2007_New_York_Giants_season" title="2007 New York Giants season">The New York Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/2007_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="2007 Miami Dolphins season">the Miami Dolphins</a> played at <a href="/wiki/Wembley_Stadium" title="Wembley Stadium">Wembley Stadium</a> in London on October 28, 2007, for the first of these games.<sup id="cite_ref-LondontoHost_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LondontoHost-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A second game in London took place on Sunday 26 October 2008, when <a href="/wiki/2008_San_Diego_Chargers_season" title="2008 San Diego Chargers season">the San Diego Chargers</a> took on the nominal “home team” <a href="/wiki/2008_New_Orleans_Saints_season" title="2008 New Orleans Saints season">New Orleans Saints</a>, also at Wembley.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/2009_New_England_Patriots_season" title="2009 New England Patriots season">The New England Patriots</a> were the designated visitors when they beat <a href="/wiki/2009_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_season" title="2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season">the Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a> 35–7 on October 25, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The long-term plan was originally to have two international games played every year, on a 16-year rotating schedule that would guarantee that each team would get to play twice over that span: once as the home team and once as the away team. This was abandoned when <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Rams" title="St. Louis Rams">the St. Louis Rams</a>, who were co-owned with <a href="/wiki/Arsenal_F.C." title="Arsenal F.C.">Arsenal</a>, a prominent soccer team in London, signed a three-year agreement to be the home team in the International Series games in London. This plan has since been re-established after the Rams announced that they would not be returning to England in 2013; the Rams would return to London as host team in 2016. </p><p>Since, the NFL has announced that the Jacksonville Jaguars will play one home game a season at Wembley, up to and including 2016, later extended to 2020. Their first game, versus the San Francisco 49ers, saw the 49ers winning comfortably.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A second game was played at Wembley for the first time, with the Minnesota Vikings hosting and beating the Pittsburgh Steelers.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, a record three fixtures were announced from the 2014 season, with the Jacksonville Jaguars hosting the Dallas Cowboys, the Atlanta Falcons hosting the Detroit Lions and the Oakland Raiders hosting the Miami Dolphins at Wembley.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a> played one regular season game each year from 2008 through 2013 in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/Bills_Toronto_Series" title="Bills Toronto Series">Bills Toronto Series</a>; two preseason games were also played as part of the same series. Poor ticket sales, fan disgust in Buffalo and the death of Bills owner <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Wilson" title="Ralph Wilson">Ralph Wilson</a> prompted the cancellation of the series in 2014. </p><p>From the 2022 season, each team will host at least one international game every eight years.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disruptions_of_the_schedule">Disruptions of the schedule</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Disruptions of the schedule"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Canceled_NFL_games" class="mw-redirect" title="Canceled NFL games">Canceled NFL games</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_home_stadiums_for_current_National_Football_League_teams#Temporary_home_stadiums" class="mw-redirect" title="Chronology of home stadiums for current National Football League teams">Temporary NFL home stadiums</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conflicts_with_other_sports_leagues_and_organizations">Conflicts with other sports leagues and organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Conflicts with other sports leagues and organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From the beginnings of the NFL, some teams shared stadiums with <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> teams, with MLB teams holding leases giving them priority. The NFL was required to schedule around September baseball games. In October, this frequently resulted in NFL teams having to reschedule on short notice if the MLB team in their city made the playoffs: on some occasions, the NFL game could be moved to Saturday or Monday. The NFL would often schedule October division games so that teams would be able to swap home game dates if it appeared that the MLB playoff schedule would make a stadium unavailable to the NFL. Perhaps the most extreme case was in 1973, when <a href="/wiki/1973_New_York_Jets_season" title="1973 New York Jets season">the New York Jets</a> played at <a href="/wiki/Shea_Stadium" title="Shea Stadium">Shea Stadium</a>; the Jets were forced to play their first six games on the road, including being forced to move a home game against <a href="/wiki/1973_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season">the Steelers</a> from New York to Pittsburgh, as <a href="/wiki/1973_New_York_Mets_season" title="1973 New York Mets season">the Mets</a> were playing in the <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a>. As more MLB teams started to move into baseball-only stadiums by the 1990s and 2000s, this became less of a problem. </p><p>Since 2020, there have been no stadiums shared by MLB and NFL teams following the relocation of the Raiders from Oakland to Las Vegas. However, five NFL teams currently share a venue with a <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Soccer" title="Major League Soccer">Major League Soccer</a> team, and five share venues with <a href="/wiki/College_football" title="College football">college football</a> teams:<sup id="cite_ref-Act1961_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Act1961-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Venue </th> <th>Team </th> <th>Team shared with </th> <th>League </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Soldier_Field" title="Soldier Field">Soldier Field</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #0B162A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #E64100, inset -2px -2px 0 #E64100;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Chicago_Bears_season" title="2024 Chicago Bears season">Chicago Bears</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Fire_FC" title="Chicago Fire FC">Chicago Fire FC</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Soccer" title="Major League Soccer">MLS</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hard_Rock_Stadium" title="Hard Rock Stadium">Hard Rock Stadium</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #008E97 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #FC4C02, inset -2px -2px 0 #FC4C02;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="2024 Miami Dolphins season">Miami Dolphins</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Miami_Hurricanes_football" title="Miami Hurricanes football">Miami Hurricanes</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Conference" title="Atlantic Coast Conference">Atlantic Coast Conference</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Financial_Field" title="Lincoln Financial Field">Lincoln Financial Field</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #004851 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #A2AAAD, inset -2px -2px 0 #A2AAAD;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Philadelphia_Eagles_season" title="2024 Philadelphia Eagles season">Philadelphia Eagles</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Temple_Owls_football" title="Temple Owls football">Temple Owls</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Athletic_Conference" title="American Athletic Conference">American Athletic Conference</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Stadium" title="Mercedes-Benz Stadium">Mercedes-Benz Stadium</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #A71930, inset -2px -2px 0 #A71930;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Atlanta_Falcons_season" title="2024 Atlanta Falcons season">Atlanta Falcons</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_United_FC" title="Atlanta United FC">Atlanta United FC</a> </td> <td>MLS </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America_Stadium" title="Bank of America Stadium">Bank of America Stadium</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0085CA, inset -2px -2px 0 #0085CA;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Carolina_Panthers_season" title="2024 Carolina Panthers season">Carolina Panthers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_FC" title="Charlotte FC">Charlotte FC</a> </td> <td>MLS </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gillette_Stadium" title="Gillette Stadium">Gillette Stadium</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #002244 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #C60C30, inset -2px -2px 0 #C60C30;"><a href="/wiki/2024_New_England_Patriots_season" title="2024 New England Patriots season">New England Patriots</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_England_Revolution" title="New England Revolution">New England Revolution</a> </td> <td>MLS </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Allegiant_Stadium" title="Allegiant Stadium">Allegiant Stadium</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #A5ACAF, inset -2px -2px 0 #A5ACAF;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Las_Vegas_Raiders_season" title="2024 Las Vegas Raiders season">Las Vegas Raiders</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/UNLV_Rebels_football" title="UNLV Rebels football">UNLV Rebels</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mountain_West_Conference" title="Mountain West Conference">Mountain West Conference</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lumen_Field" title="Lumen Field">Lumen Field</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #002244 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #69BE28, inset -2px -2px 0 #69BE28;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Seattle_Seahawks_season" title="2024 Seattle Seahawks season">Seattle Seahawks</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Sounders_FC" title="Seattle Sounders FC">Seattle Sounders FC</a> </td> <td>MLS </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Acrisure_Stadium" title="Acrisure Stadium">Acrisure Stadium</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #FFB612, inset -2px -2px 0 #FFB612;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="2024 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Panthers_football" title="Pittsburgh Panthers football">Pittsburgh Panthers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Conference" title="Atlantic Coast Conference">Atlantic Coast Conference</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Raymond_James_Stadium" title="Raymond James Stadium">Raymond James Stadium</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #A71930 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #322F2B, inset -2px -2px 0 #322F2B;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_season" title="2024 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season">Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Florida_Bulls_football" title="South Florida Bulls football">South Florida Bulls</a> </td> <td>American Athletic Conference </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>However, there are still eight NFL and MLB venues that share parking lots — as such, the NFL typically schedules these teams to play on the road when their MLB counterpart is at home: </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>NFL franchise </th> <th>MLB stadium nearby </th> <th>MLB franchise </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #24135F !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #9A7611, inset -2px -2px 0 #9A7611;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Baltimore_Ravens_season" title="2024 Baltimore Ravens season">Baltimore Ravens</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oriole_Park_at_Camden_Yards" title="Oriole Park at Camden Yards">Oriole Park at Camden Yards</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DF4601, inset -2px -2px 0 #DF4601; !important;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Baltimore_Orioles_season" title="2024 Baltimore Orioles season">Baltimore Orioles</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #FB4F14, inset -2px -2px 0 #FB4F14;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Cincinnati_Bengals_season" title="2024 Cincinnati Bengals season">Cincinnati Bengals</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Great_American_Ballpark" class="mw-redirect" title="Great American Ballpark">Great American Ballpark</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #C6011F !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000; !important;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="2024 Cincinnati Reds season">Cincinnati Reds</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #002244 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #B0B7BC, inset -2px -2px 0 #B0B7BC;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="2024 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas Cowboys</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Globe_Life_Field" title="Globe Life Field">Globe Life Field</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #003278 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #C0111F, inset -2px -2px 0 #C0111F; !important;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Texas_Rangers_season" title="2024 Texas Rangers season">Texas Rangers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #0076B6 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #B0B7BC, inset -2px -2px 0 #B0B7BC;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Detroit_Lions_season" title="2024 Detroit Lions season">Detroit Lions</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Comerica_Park" title="Comerica Park">Comerica Park</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #0C2C56 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #FF6600, inset -2px -2px 0 #FF6600; !important;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="2024 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit Tigers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #E31837 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #FFB612, inset -2px -2px 0 #FFB612;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="2024 Kansas City Chiefs season">Kansas City Chiefs</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kauffman_Stadium" title="Kauffman Stadium">Kauffman Stadium</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #004687 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Kansas_City_Royals_season" title="2024 Kansas City Royals season">Kansas City Royals</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #004851 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #A2AAAD, inset -2px -2px 0 #A2AAAD;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Philadelphia_Eagles_season" title="2024 Philadelphia Eagles season">Philadelphia Eagles</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Citizens_Bank_Park" title="Citizens Bank Park">Citizens Bank Park</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #E81828 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003278, inset -2px -2px 0 #003278; !important;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="2024 Philadelphia Phillies season">Philadelphia Phillies</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #FFB612, inset -2px -2px 0 #FFB612;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="2024 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/PNC_Park" title="PNC Park">PNC Park</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #FDB827, inset -2px -2px 0 #FDB827; !important;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="2024 Pittsburgh Pirates season">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #002244 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #69BE28, inset -2px -2px 0 #69BE28;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Seattle_Seahawks_season" title="2024 Seattle Seahawks season">Seattle Seahawks</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/T-Mobile_Park" title="T-Mobile Park">T-Mobile Park</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #0C2C56 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #005C5C, inset -2px -2px 0 #005C5C; !important;"><a href="/wiki/2024_Seattle_Mariners_season" title="2024 Seattle Mariners season">Seattle Mariners</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>While both NFL and MLB teams play in downtown stadiums in <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>, the teams do not share the same parking lots as they play in different parts of the downtown area. Therefore, it is possible for the Browns, Broncos and Vikings to play home games on the same day the Guardians, Rockies and Twins, respectively, play at home. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/2013_NFL_season" title="2013 NFL season">2013</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVII" title="Super Bowl XLVII">Super Bowl XLVII</a> champion <a href="/wiki/2013_Baltimore_Ravens_season" title="2013 Baltimore Ravens season">Baltimore Ravens</a> were forced to open on the road due to their MLB counterparts, <a href="/wiki/2013_Baltimore_Orioles_season" title="2013 Baltimore Orioles season">the Baltimore Orioles</a>, being scheduled at home on the same day as the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_Kickoff_game" class="mw-redirect" title="National Football League Kickoff game">Week 1 NFL Kickoff game</a>, and the Orioles declined to either reschedule or relocate their home game.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVIII" title="Super Bowl XLVIII">Super Bowl XLVIII</a> champion Seattle Seahawks averted this conflict for the <a href="/wiki/2014_NFL_season" title="2014 NFL season">2014</a> season opener, as their MLB counterparts, <a href="/wiki/2014_Seattle_Mariners_season" title="2014 Seattle Mariners season">the Seattle Mariners</a>, played on the road; their respective venues also share the same parking lot. The Seattle Sounders FC also played on the road during the opening week of the 2014 NFL season, assuring no scheduling conflicts. The <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a> also hosted one game a year at the <a href="/wiki/Rogers_Centre" title="Rogers Centre">Rogers Centre</a>, which is the home of the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Blue_Jays" title="Toronto Blue Jays">Toronto Blue Jays</a>, but this was only an issue in the preseason, since all such regular season games were scheduled after the end of the <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Labor_disputes">Labor disputes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Labor disputes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/1982_NFL_season" title="1982 NFL season">1982</a> and <a href="/wiki/1987_NFL_season" title="1987 NFL season">1987</a> seasons were both shortened by <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_Players_Association" title="National Football League Players Association">labor disputes</a>. The <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_Players_Association#1982_strike" title="National Football League Players Association">1982 strike</a> lasted 57 days. Weeks 3 through 10 were canceled, but an additional week was added to make a 9-game schedule; the rescheduled week consisted of 12 intradivision games and two intraconference games (Jets-Chiefs, Cowboys-Vikings). The 1982 playoff matchups were determined by conference standings only. The <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_Players_Association#1987_strike_and_decertification" title="National Football League Players Association">1987 strike</a> and subsequent <a href="/wiki/Lockout_(industry)" title="Lockout (industry)">lockout</a> lasted 24 days but only one week of the schedule was lost. Weeks 4 through 6 were played with <a href="/wiki/Strikebreakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Strikebreakers">non-union replacement players</a>. The rest of <a href="/wiki/1987_NFL_season" title="1987 NFL season">the season</a> was played as originally scheduled, for a total of 15 games per team. </p><p>In the event that the <a href="/wiki/2011_NFL_season" title="2011 NFL season">2011</a> season had been disrupted because of a then-ongoing labor dispute, the NFL had arranged its schedule to facilitate easier cancellations and postponements. In addition to an emergency scenario of an eight-game schedule beginning in late November, the NFL also arranged its full-length schedule such that weeks 2 and 4 had no division games and all week 3 matchups could be moved into each team's respective bye week. The league also had a contingency plan to postpone <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVI" title="Super Bowl XLVI">Super Bowl XLVI</a> one week, which (assuming a full playoff schedule, but eliminating the bye-week before the Super Bowl and moving the Super Bowl back one week) would allow a 14-game schedule with all six division games for each team to be played beginning as late as October 16. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Natural_disasters">Natural disasters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Natural disasters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several games have been postponed or relocated because of natural disasters. In 1989, <a href="/wiki/Candlestick_Park" title="Candlestick Park">Candlestick Park</a> was damaged by the <a href="/wiki/Loma_Prieta_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="Loma Prieta earthquake">Loma Prieta earthquake</a>. <a href="/wiki/1989_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="1989 San Francisco 49ers season">The San Francisco 49ers</a> would play their game on October 22, 1989, against <a href="/wiki/1989_New_England_Patriots_season" title="1989 New England Patriots season">the New England Patriots</a> at <a href="/wiki/Stanford_Stadium" title="Stanford Stadium">Stanford Stadium</a> at Stanford University. A few days before the start of the <a href="/wiki/2005_NFL_season" title="2005 NFL season">2005 NFL season</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Superdome" class="mw-redirect" title="Louisiana Superdome">Louisiana Superdome</a> was severely damaged by <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a>, and much of the city of <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> was destroyed. <a href="/wiki/2005_New_Orleans_Saints_season" title="2005 New Orleans Saints season">The Saints</a>' eight scheduled home games were moved to other locations, including <a href="/wiki/Giants_Stadium" title="Giants Stadium">Giants Stadium</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Alamodome" title="Alamodome">Alamodome</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(LSU)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiger Stadium (LSU)">Tiger Stadium</a> on the campus of <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_State_University" title="Louisiana State University">Louisiana State University</a>. On September 14, 2008, <a href="/wiki/2008_Houston_Texans_season" title="2008 Houston Texans season">the Houston Texans</a> were scheduled to host <a href="/wiki/2008_Baltimore_Ravens_season" title="2008 Baltimore Ravens season">the Baltimore Ravens</a>. The game was postponed until November 9 because of <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Ike" title="Hurricane Ike">Hurricane Ike</a> (which caused some damage to <a href="/wiki/Reliant_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Reliant Stadium">Reliant Stadium</a>) and several other changes had to be made to the schedule. On August 29, 2021, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Ida" title="Hurricane Ida">Hurricane Ida</a> made landfall in Louisiana, causing severe damage to New Orleans; the New Orleans Saints' season opener against <a href="/wiki/2021_Green_Bay_Packers_season" title="2021 Green Bay Packers season">the Green Bay Packers</a>, scheduled for September 12 at the Superdome, was moved to <a href="/wiki/TIAA_Bank_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="TIAA Bank Field">TIAA Bank Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville, Florida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Miami_Dolphins" title="Miami Dolphins">Miami Dolphins</a> have been involved in a number of games that were moved to a different time and date. A few of those games would include 1992 against <a href="/wiki/1992_New_England_Patriots_season" title="1992 New England Patriots season">the New England Patriots</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew" title="Hurricane Andrew">Hurricane Andrew</a>), 2004 against <a href="/wiki/2004_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2004 Tennessee Titans season">the Tennessee Titans</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan" title="Hurricane Ivan">Hurricane Ivan</a>) and <a href="/wiki/2004_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="2004 Pittsburgh Steelers season">the Pittsburgh Steelers</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Jeanne" title="Hurricane Jeanne">Hurricane Jeanne</a>), 2005 against <a href="/wiki/2005_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="2005 Kansas City Chiefs season">the Kansas City Chiefs</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Wilma" title="Hurricane Wilma">Hurricane Wilma</a>), 2017 against <a href="/wiki/2017_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_season" title="2017 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season">the Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma">Hurricane Irma</a>), and others.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The roof of the <a href="/wiki/Hubert_H._Humphrey_Metrodome" title="Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome">Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome</a> collapsed on December 12, 2010, after a severe heavy snowstorm, resulting in the stadium being unusable for the remainder of the season. The last two of <a href="/wiki/2010_Minnesota_Vikings_season" title="2010 Minnesota Vikings season">the Vikings</a>' home games had to be moved: one to <a href="/wiki/Ford_Field" title="Ford Field">Ford Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a> (which also led to the game being postponed the following Monday night) and another to <a href="/wiki/TCF_Bank_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="TCF Bank Stadium">TCF Bank Stadium</a>, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football" title="Minnesota Golden Gophers football">college football</a> stadium. In December 2010, a Minnesota Vikings–<a href="/wiki/2010_Philadelphia_Eagles_season" title="2010 Philadelphia Eagles season">Philadelphia Eagles</a> game originally scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, December 26, a time at which it could have been successfully completed, had two weeks earlier been flexed by <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sunday_Night_Football" title="NBC Sunday Night Football">NBC</a> to Sunday night and was postponed to Tuesday, December 28, due to a strong <a href="/wiki/Nor%27easter" title="Nor'easter">Nor'easter</a>. In 2014, the Week 12 visit of the Jets to Buffalo was moved to Detroit (and from Sunday to Monday) due to <a href="/wiki/November_13%E2%80%9321,_2014_North_American_winter_storm" title="November 13–21, 2014 North American winter storm">severe snow</a> in Western New York the previous week. A similar snowstorm occurred again in 2022, and the Bills moved their Week 11 game against the Browns to Detroit (unlike in 2014, the game was able to be played at its regularly-scheduled time).<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_major_news_events">Other major news events</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Other major news events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a>, the precursor to today's <a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">American Football Conference</a>, postponed Week 12 of the <a href="/wiki/1963_AFL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1963 AFL season">1963 season</a> because of the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of John F. Kennedy">assassination of President Kennedy</a>, on Friday, November 22. The AFL's games were made up by adding a 15th week to a 14-week schedule. The older and more established <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> went ahead and played as scheduled on Sunday, November 24, 1963, but no games were televised. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/2001_NFL_season" title="2001 NFL season">2001</a>, Week 2 of the season was postponed because of the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>. At the end of the originally planned 17-week schedule, Week 2 games were played on Sunday, January 6 and Monday, January 7, 2002. The <a href="/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NFL_playoffs" title="2001–02 NFL playoffs">post-season schedule</a> was moved back a week, including <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVI" title="Super Bowl XXXVI">Super Bowl XXXVI</a> (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.) </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/2020_NFL_season" title="2020 NFL season">2020</a>, the league added contingencies in its schedule similar to those made for the labor dispute in 2011 in case the season had to be delayed because of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>. Every game in Week 2 featured teams that shared the same bye week later in the season, which would have allowed these games to be made up on the teams' original byes. Weeks 3 and 4 were set up so that there were no divisional games and that every team at home in Week 3 was away in Week 4 and vice versa. This would have allowed the NFL to cancel these two weeks without eliminating any divisional games and keeping each team's home and away games balanced. These scheduling changes, along with eliminating the week off before the Super Bowl and moving the Super Bowl back three weeks, would have allowed the NFL to play a 14-game schedule beginning October 29 while still playing the Super Bowl in February.<sup id="cite_ref-lat20200507_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lat20200507-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wsj20200501_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj20200501-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Football_League_seasons" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Football League seasons">List of National Football League seasons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_preseason" title="NFL preseason">NFL preseason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NFL_playoffs" title="NFL playoffs">NFL playoffs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_schedule" title="Major League Baseball schedule">Major League Baseball schedule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Season_structure_of_the_NHL" title="Season structure of the NHL">Season structure of the NHL</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Act1961-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Act1961_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Act1961_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Due to the <a href="/wiki/Sports_Broadcasting_Act_of_1961" title="Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961">Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961</a>, which prevents NFL and <a href="/wiki/NCAA" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA">NCAA</a> games from being played at the same time,<sup id="cite_ref-Sports_Law_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sports_Law-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Saturday games are only played in December and January, after the conclusion of the NCAA regular season. The Act also prevents competition for stadiums shared between college and NFL football.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Division_standing-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Division_standing_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example, a team that finished first in the previous season will play another first-place team.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example, a team that finished last in its division the previous season will play another last-place team of their respective division.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This also applied to those teams — always from the Central or West divisions of either conference and always one per season — who played four interconference games in a season, although matchups involving these teams would have occurred more than three times every thirteen seasons.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Theoretically, this would alter the cycle of rotating intraconference opponents to a longer cycle as the team playing four interconference games in the NFC was rotated on an eight-year cycle between all eight teams in the <a href="/wiki/NFC_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="NFC Central">NFC Central</a> and <a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Between 1978 and 1994, the <a href="/wiki/AFC_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="AFC Central">AFC Central</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Cincinnati_Bengals_seasons" title="List of Cincinnati Bengals seasons">Bengals</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Cleveland_Browns_seasons" title="List of Cleveland Browns seasons">Browns</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Tennessee_Titans_seasons" title="List of Tennessee Titans seasons">Oilers</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Pittsburgh_Steelers_seasons" title="List of Pittsburgh Steelers seasons">Steelers</a>) and <a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">NFC West</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Atlanta_Falcons_seasons" title="List of Atlanta Falcons seasons">Falcons</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_49ers_seasons" title="List of San Francisco 49ers seasons">49ers</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Los_Angeles_Rams_seasons" title="List of Los Angeles Rams seasons">Rams</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_New_Orleans_Saints_seasons" title="List of New Orleans Saints seasons">Saints</a>) were the two four-team divisions.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MLB typically releases the schedule for an upcoming season prior to the end of the previous season, forcing the NFL to accommodate the scheduling needs of teams who share parking lots or stadiums with MLB teams, while MLS typically releases their season schedule well ahead of the NFL’s schedule release.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NFL_regular_season&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-deadline-tnf2016nbccbs-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-deadline-tnf2016nbccbs_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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