17 - week is the number of weeks in the regular nfl season.
17 - week is the number of weeks in the regular nfl season.
how many weeks are in the regular nfl season?
17 - week
the 1993 nfl season was the 74th regular season of the national football league. it was the only season in league history where all nfl teams were scheduled to play their 16-game schedule over a span of 18 weeks (the league again played 16 games over 18 weeks in , but this was not planned and instead was caused by the postponement of a week of games due to the september 11, 2001 terrorist attacks). after the success of expanding the regular season to a period of 17 weeks in 1990, the league hoped this new schedule would generate even more revenue. this was also done to avoid scheduling playoff games on january 1 and competing with college football bowl games. however, teams felt that having two weeks off during the regular season was too disruptive for their weekly routines, and thus it reverted to 17 weeks immediately after the season ended.
1993 nfl season
in 1982, the nfl signed a five-year contract with the three television networks (abc, cbs and nbc) to televise all nfl regular season and postseason games starting with the 1982 season. by this particular time, cbs decided that instead of using the regular cbs sports typeface of that period (a variant of franklin gothic), that it would instead use the serifa typeface that began to be used a few months earlier on cbs news programs for their title graphics and lower-thirds. during the 1982 season, the nfl allowed cbs to rebroadcast super bowl xvi during the first sunday of the strike. cbs also rebroadcast their most recent super bowl (xxi) telecast during the 1987 strike. also during the 1982 strike, cbs' ncaa football contract required the network to show four division iii games; the network initially intended to show those games on saturday afternoons, with the broadcasts being received only in markets that were interested in carrying them. however, with no nfl games to show on october 3, 1982 (on what would have been week 5 of the nfl season) due to the strike, cbs decided to show all of its ncaa division iii games on a single sunday afternoon in front of a mass audience. cbs also used their regular nfl crews (pat summerall and john madden at wittenberg–baldwin–wallace, tom brookshier and wayne walker at west georgia–millsaps, tim ryan and johnny morris at wisconsin–oshkosh – wisconsin–stout, and dick stockton and roger staubach at san diego–occidental) and aired "the nfl today" instead of using their regular college football broadcasters.
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