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ESPN was given the rights to air one Wild Card game per postseason, marking the first time an NFL playoff game exclusively aired on a cable channel. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] This cable-only experiment lasted only this postseason, as ESPN was later given the right in subsequent years to simulcast its playoff games on sister broadcast network ABC .
The 2014 National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game was played between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks on January 18, 2015, at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington. Both the Packers and Seahawks finished the 2014 season at 12–4, winning their respective divisions.
BY SAM SPIEGELMAN XNSports.com Football season is right around the corner. If you slept through the draft, free agency or the preseason, you'll need this refresher course on every team. XN Sports ...
The 2014 NFL season was the 95th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL) and the 49th of the Super Bowl era. The season began on Thursday, September 4, 2014, with the annual kickoff game featuring the defending Super Bowl XLVIII champion Seattle Seahawks hosting the Green Bay Packers , which resulted with the Seahawks winning.
Starting in 1995, NBC unveiled a new theme by veteran composer Randy Edelman, which was used for both its pregame show (now simply titled The NFL on NBC) and game telecasts. This theme would be used until Super Bowl XXXII [22] in 1997 between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers. NBC lost AFC television rights after 1997 to CBS which ...
The first spread Andrews comes to for an NFL game is simple math, using the power ratings: If Team A is 90, Team B is 91 and at home with a 2.5-point home-field advantage, the line is Team B -3.5.
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On April 22, 2014, the NFL announced that it had exercised an option in ESPN's recent contract extension for Monday Night Football rights to air a first-round Wild Card playoff game on the channel after the conclusion of the 2014 season. This was the first (and only) time that an NFL playoff game was ever broadcast exclusively on cable ...