someone correct me if i am wrong, but in years past, not even the last few but through the 90s and into the 00s after the college regular season ended usually in the first week of december werent there usually games on saturday? i for some reason remember there always being 1 game on at 1pm and another at 4 pm on saturdays through september other than big bowl game days.
It used to always be that way , The Jets or Giants always seemed to play in one to give the NY market an extra Sunday game fro a Change. Now that they do the Thursday Night games in the 2nd half of season I don't think they are coming back.
I remember when there used to be Friday games late in the year. Aside from special circumstances such as Christmas falling on a Saturday (see Friday game between GB and Minnesota on 12/24/04) or a hurricane situation (see KC at Miami on Friday, 10/21/05), I don't believe there has been a Friday game scheduled since the 1986 season. 1984- Saturday, 12/8, Buffalo at N.Y. Jets & Minnesota at San Francisco Friday, 12/14, L.A. Rams at San Francisco Saturday, 12/15, Denver at Seattle & New Orleans at N.Y. Giants 1985- Saturday, 12/14, Kansas City at Denver & Chicago at N.Y. Jets Friday, 12/20, Denver at Seattle Saturday, 12/21, Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants & Washington at St. Louis 1986- Saturday, 12/13, Pittsburgh at N.Y. Jets & Washington at Denver Friday, 12/19, L.A. Rams at San Francisco Saturday, 12/20, Green Bay at N.Y. Giants & Denver at Seattle 1987-88 had two Saturdays with two games each. 1989- two games on Saturday, 12/16, three games on Saturday, 12/23 (four of the five games were shutouts) 1990- three Saturdays of NFL action, 7 games So on and so forth. The Giants played on three consecutive Saturdays in 2005 (13 games were played on Christmas Eve that season, which was on a Saturday). 2006 is the season in which the two-games-on-Saturday-afternoon action ended. That was done away with because the NFL Network got some games and spread them out over the second half of the season for Thursday and Saturday nights.
