The NFL hasn’t scheduled a game for every day of the week.
Yet.
“We’re going to be the new 7-Eleven,” New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan said. “NFL, 24 hours, you can watch them play any given day.”
The veteran preparing for his 14th season has a way of lacing his critiques with playful satire that hits his intended target. With the NFL close to filling every day of the week with a game in the 2024 season, the league with a reputation of “any given Sunday” might just qualify for that new nickname.
It’s all part of the NFL’s plan to keep growing the game and the league.
“Our job is to be everywhere our fans are,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said when asked about the league’s new three-year Netflix deal that this year adds Wednesday games. “They (Netflix) have almost 300 million global subscribers. We are obviously focused on becoming more global, so it’s a huge benefit to us.”
That deal is why the league that has scheduled and played games on Christmas Day for years will be playing not one, but two games on Christmas when defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City visits Pittsburgh as part of a holiday doubleheader capped by Baltimore at Houston.
The difference is, this will be only the third time the NFL has played on a Wednesday since 1950.
The four teams involved all play Saturday, giving coaches and players the kind of turnaround faced when a Sunday game is followed by a Thursday night kickoff. Tuesday is the only day the Chiefs won’t play a game this season — technically the lone day off for NFL players with Sunday games.
Washington coach Dan Quinn said the key to preparing is sticking to a routine and shifting days. That involves trying to fool the body clock.
“This would be like a Wednesday, this would be like a Friday, this is what we do before the game, so it’s not as difficult as it seems,” Quinn said. “You have some travel that you have to work in, shorter weeks, longer weeks, but staying true to a process.”
The Ravens will only miss playing…
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