Sportonomics: How the NFL Expanded Beyond Sundays
Certainly, leagues like the MLB, NHL, and NBA have teams play between 2 to 7 times throughout the week. However, the NBA and NHL have 82 games in a season and the MLB has 162 games in a season per team whereas the NFL, with its tougher, more physical, game, has only 18 total weeks. Each team has a bye week along with 17 games spread out from early September to early January. Historically, though, the NFL has slotted its games on Sunday, even introducing Redzone in 2009 to have an easy-to-follow platform for the many NFL games throughout the day. Redzone has since been a massive success, boosting the NFL's viewership by allowing fans to watch highlights from all of the Sunday slated games simultaneously. Courtesy of NFL With the NFL continuing its ascension to the top of U.S. sports league viewership (beating out leagues like the NBA and MLB) and second in wo...
