The NFL season already takes over three days of the week: Sunday, Monday, and Thursday. Toward the end of the regular season, the league sprinkles in a couple of Saturday games, when there's less college football to compete with.
The Week 17 schedule began with two NFL games on Christmas, which fell on a Wednesday, and ran against the NBA's traditional marquee schedule. These games, broadcast by Netflix for the first time ever and watched by a dubious number of viewers, cost the streaming service approximately $150 million.
The NFL has treated the back-to-back Super Bowl champions as its golden goose, scheduling games for the Chiefs this season on six different days of the week.
When asked after the Chiefs' Week 16 victory whether the scheduling crunch was too much, head coach Andy Reid avoided getting himself in trouble. 'Ah, that's a tough question,' he said.
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