No Sunday Night Football on New Year’s Eve, as NFL Shuffles Week 17 Schedule
The regular season’s final Sunday Night Football telecast has been scrapped, after the NFL shuffled the Dec. 31 schedule to, simply said, keep that late game from possibly being meaningless.
“We felt that both from a competitive standpoint and from a fan perspective, the most fair thing to do is to schedule all Week 17 games in either the 1 pm or 4:25 pm ET windows,” NFL SVP of Broadcasting Howard Katz said in a statement. “This ensures that we do not have a match-up on Sunday Night Football on New Year’s Eve that because of earlier results has no playoff implications for one or both of the competing teams.”
Among the changes for next Sunday, CBS’ Cincinnati/Baltimore, Buffalo/Miami and Jacksonville/Tennessee games have been moved from 1 pm to 4:25 pm, as have Fox’s Carolina/Atlanta and New Orleans/Tampa Bay match-ups.
The complete NFL slate for Sunday, Dec. 31 can be found here.
TVLine will keep you posted on NBC’s plans to fill its primetime slate that night.
I Was Not Happy about Sunday Night On NBC Because they didn’t Show a game in week 17 And Yesterday NBC Was Suppose to Break out New Graphics and A New Scorebug And even a new Ticker Because they keep showing the Old Scorebug And Graphics Which is 3 Years old and I’m sick of it Because they need new Stuff for Super Bowl LII. And that’s Why Networks change there graphics every 3 years. And they need to Change it Now. And it has not Changed because of this Cold Weather. I Hope they do so now not later because they better change there grpahics and Scorebug and ticker right now because I don’t want to wait until February 4. Or else it’s goodbye NBC Sports and I will never watch it again.