Chiefs hit with bizarre scheduling quirk the NFL hasn’t seen in 97 years, plus 15 other 2024 schedule oddities

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There are always some crazy quirks when it comes to the NFL schedule, but this year seemed to be slightly crazier than other years: There’s a team that will be playing on six different days of the week, there’s a division rivalry that will only be played on Thursdays and there are two teams that won’t play a single division game until Week 11. 

It almost seemed like the NFL scheduling department went out of its way to add as many quirks as possible to this year’s slate of games. 

So who got the craziest quirks? That’s a great question, so let’s find out. 

Here are 16 of the weirdest quirks on the 2024 NFL schedule, starting with the Chiefs, who got a quirk that the NFL hasn’t seen in 97 years.

Chiefs will be playing on six different days of the week. The Chiefs got a schedule that no team has gotten in 97 years. With the Chiefs getting a Friday game and Wednesday game thanks to Black Friday and Christmas, Kansas City will be playing on six different days this year. The only day the Chiefs WON’T be playing on is Tuesday. That makes the Chiefs the first team in 97 years to play on six different days of the week. Back in 1927, the New York Yankees played on every day except for Monday. Cowboys and Giants to make history. The NFC East rivals will be playing each other two times in 2024, and both games will be held on a Thursday, which is notable, because that’s only happened a total of two times over the past 98 years. The Lions and Packers played two Thursday games in 2023 and before that, you have to go all the way back to 1926 to find an instance where two NFL teams played multiple Thursday games against each other in the same season (Back then, it was the Chicago Cardinals and Chicago Bears). CBS scores NFC East…


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Author : John Breech

Publish date : 2024-05-17 13:02:49

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