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The 2017 NFL season was the 98th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL) and the 52nd of the Super Bowl era. The season began on September 7, 2017, with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the defending Super Bowl LI champion New England Patriots in the NFL Kickoff Game .
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NFL Century Division teams split up between AFC Central and NFC East; Baltimore moves from NFL Coastal to AFC East; Cincinnati moves from AFL West to AFC Central; Houston moves from AFL East to AFC Central; Cleveland moves from NFL Century to AFC Central; Pittsburgh moves from NFL Century to AFC Central; New York Giants move from NFL Century to ...
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The 2017 NFL season was the 98th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL) and the 52nd of the Super Bowl era. The season began on September 7, 2017, with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the defending Super Bowl LI champion New England Patriots 42–27 in the NFL Kickoff Game.
Jan 6, 2018 · Draft Results. 2017 NFL Team Links. View a summary of the 2017 NFL season, including standings, stats, statistics, game results, playoffs, draft results and leaders.
- Game Times
- History
- Current Scheduling Formula
- Past Formulas
- Scheduled Division Matchups
- Regular Season Games Played Outside The U.S.
- Disruptions of The Schedule
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Since 1990, the majority of NFL regular-season games are played on Sundays at 1:00 pm, or around 4:05 to 4:25pm ET (see below). The late afternoon (ET) window is usually reserved for games hosted in the Pacific Time Zone or Mountain Time Zone, plus one or more marquee contests. The current NFL television contract awards the American broadcast of th...
In its early years after 1920, 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 1926 through 1946, they played from eleven to fourteen games per season, depending on the number of teams in the league. From 1947 through 1960, eac...
Currently, the fourteen different opponents each team faces over the 17-game regular season schedule are set using a pre-determined formula: 1. Each team plays twice against each of the other three teams in its division: once at home, and once on the road (six games). 2. Each team plays once against each of the four teams from a predetermined divis...
Between 1970 and the 2002expansion 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. The only time between the mergerand 2002 (when the league was realigned into eight divisions of four teams each) that the league was completely "balanced" was in ...
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 t...
To date, several NFL regular season games have been played outside the U.S. The first was the 2005 game between the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers, which was played in Mexico City. 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...
Conflicts with other sports leagues and organizations
From the beginnings of the NFL, some teams shared stadiums with Major League Baseball 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...
Labor disputes
The 1982 and 1987 seasons were both shortened by labor disputes. The 1982 strike lasted 57 days. Weeks 3 through 10 were canceled, but an additional week was added to make a 9-game schedule. The 1982 playoff matchups were determined by conference standings only. The 1987 strike and subsequent lockout lasted 24 days but only one week of the schedule was lost. Weeks 4 through 6 were played with non-union replacement players. The rest of the seasonwas played as originally scheduled, for a total...
Natural disasters
Several games have been postponed or relocated because of natural disasters. In 1989, Candlestick Park was damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake. The San Francisco 49ers would play their game on October 22, 1989 against the New England Patriots at Stanford Stadium at Stanford University. A few days before the start of the 2005 NFL season, the Louisiana Superdome was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and much of the city of New Orleans was destroyed. The Saints' eight scheduled home games...
Check out the 2017 NFL Standings & Team Stats including AFC and NFC results and standings on Pro-football-reference.com.
Dec 28, 2016 · Here are all the important dates in 2017 for the National Football League. Dates are subject to change. January 1 -- Week 17. January 2 -- Clubs may begin signing free agent players for the...
