4 teams this season had 0 prime time games: Cardinals, Colts, Falcons and Texans. Colts played an A.M. game in Germany, Falcons played an A.M. game in London, and Cardinals have played both the Sunday 1st slot (1pm/12pm/11am/10am) and Sunday 2nd slot (4-4:30 pm/3-3:30 pm/2-2:30 pm/1-1:30pm).
This Sunday, the Texans had been scheduled for that Sunday 2nd Slot against the Broncos, but it was flexed back to the Sunday 1st Slot. This game is the only game on the Texans schedule that wasn’t initially at that Sunday 1st Slot. And unless one of the last 5 games gets flexed, the Texans will have played every game at the Noon time slot.
There is also a very real chance, that if the Texans make it into the playoffs, that they play on Sunday Jan 14th at Noon… The Texans, CJ Stroud, HC DeMeco Ryans all have a very real chance of playing an entire season @Noon on Sundays, unless the make the divisional round.
Will this be the first time an NFL team had this consistent of a game schedule? I know I’m counting my eggs before they hatch, as the Week 18 schedule isn’t out but hopefully the NFL sees the gloriousness of this.
Best schedule. I miss those days. Soak it up Houston, it won’t be this way next year.
The 2010 Lions had 15 games start at Noon
The other start time was the traditional 11:30AM CT Thanksgiving start
Weird. Both the Browns and Bills played all their games at 1:00 that year…something that hasn’t happened in any of the other years from 2000 - 2022
Detroit got flexed to the Sunday Night game in week 18 last season. They and Green Bay went into Sunday morning with the winner of that game getting the Wild Card but Seattle won eliminating Detroit, who still beat Green Bay, that sent Seattle to the playoffs.
Fun times /s
As a fan of a team who had mostly noon games up until about 2016/2017 cherish it. Constant afternoon and primetime games low key sucks.
The afternoon game is the worst! I’m on East Coast so it starts at 4:25 ish and just ruins the afternoon/evening. Runs into dinner time and it means I need to get up early to get things done if I want to watch the game. The 1 o’clock or SNF are the best. The 2 youngest still take naps so I try to get them down right before the early game or SNF starts after their bed time.
only two noon games this season sucks. Several primetime games that have no business being there. Packers on SNF why? Rodgers was gone when they made the schedule. Patriots on MNF? did anyone think this was going to be a game anyone wants to watch?
Noon games are the best, wish they’d put some more of the obvious stinkers there.
Hell yeah, us Stroud boys need the games to all be at the same time.
So glad the Texans got no primetime games while the fucking bears got a thousand
Chiefs are on SNF against the packers this week, and MNF against the patriots in a few weeks, and besides the games being in Lambeau and Foxboro, I can’t figure out who at the schedule makers thought either of those was a primetime worthy matchup this year.
We had many years where every game except for our annual Thursday night shit bowl was at 1pm est Sunday
Imagine your one Thursday game is a kickoff 30 min before the normal 1 PM Sunday kick off. Good times.
doesn’t every team play on TNF at least once?
Not this year
I feel like every team should have at least one prime time game per year
I absolutely would prefer to never have any games that aren’t on Sunday. Keep the Rams off MNF and TNF unless it’s the season opener.