{"id":178795,"date":"2023-01-06T11:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/no-thursday-night-game-but-two-matchups-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:49:04","slug":"no-thursday-night-game-but-two-matchups-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/no-thursday-night-game-but-two-matchups-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"No Thursday night game, but two matchups on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
The final week of the NFL regular season is slightly different from the typical schedule football fans have become accustomed to over the first 17 weeks of play. <\/p>\n
First of all there’s no game on Thursday night, with Amazon Prime Video’s initial season \u2014 featuring announcers Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit \u2014 already complete.<\/p>\n
The league doesn’t have a Thursday night game on the final week of the regular season because it doesn’t have any scheduling flexibility with those games, and it doesn’t want teams who could be competing for a playoff spot to have a short week of preparation.<\/p>\n\n
However, the NFL does have two nationally televised Week 18 games on Saturday, both on ABC\/ESPN.<\/p>\n
Follow every game:<\/strong> Latest NFL Scores and Schedules<\/p>\n