Saturdays are for football.
We’ve got to the factor in the NFL period where Saturdays sign up with Sundays, Mondays as well as Thursdays as NFL days, a lot to the joy of some (as well as the annoyance of others, that wish to invest their weekend breaks far from their television).
For years, the NFL has actually chosen to play games on Saturdays in December in the closing weeks of the period, expanding their schedule over 4 days throughout the week rather than 3. Since 1970, NFL games have actually been played on Saturdays now in the period, with 2013 the exemption.
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There is, however, a reason for that:
Why are there NFL games on (*16 *)?
It all returns to the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961. The legislation was made in reaction to Congress refusing the NFL from bargaining television legal rights since the federal government really felt the organization was going against antitrust …
