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Creating the NFL schedule is a complicated process that requires tens of thousands of computers coming up with countless possibilities over a process that lasts about four months.
There are several competing factors at play, from keeping all of the television partners happy, to competitive balance for teams, to stadium availability.
One variable that wasn’t considered, despite some wild internet conjecture, was making sure Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs had a game scheduled close in location to one of the tour spots for Taylor Swift.
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“I saw a lot of conspiracy theorists talking about Kansas City at Buffalo middle of the season, right when Taylor’s playing Toronto,” Mike North, the NFL’s vice president for broadcast planning, said Thursday. “That one definitely did not hit our radar screen.”
The Chiefs have emerged in recent years as one of the NFL’s top television draws thanks to quarterback Patrick Mahomes leading them to three Super Bowl titles in the past five seasons, and increased even more last season when Swift attended several games to watch her boyfriend, Kelce.
That led to doling out Kansas City games to each of the NFL’s major television partners. CBS got at least seven of the games in the schedule released Wednesday as the traditional home of Sunday afternoon AFC games with the Week 18 game still available. NBC also got four games in prime time, including the Thursday night opener against Baltimore, a pair of Sunday night games and a Saturday night game in Week 16.
The Chiefs are playing Houston that Saturday because they were also selected to play the following Wednesday on Christmas on Netflix against Pittsburgh.
Kansas City is also playing in the second annual Black Friday game on Amazon Prime Video the day after Thanksgiving and will have perhaps its most anticipated game of the season on FOX in a Super Bowl rematch against San Francisco in Week 7.
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Publish date : 2024-05-16 20:16:33
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