NFL Planning Wilder Super Wild Card Playoff Weekend To Include Monday Night
Friday, September 24, 2021 at 11:08AM By Barry Janoff
September 24, 2021: As part of its "biggest season ever," the NFL is making its Wild Card playoff weekend a three-day event.
The league said today that beginning with the current season, Super Wild Card Weekend (Jan. 15-17, 2022) would include a game on Monday night.
The NFL expanded the playoffs last season for the first time since 1990, adding a third Wild Card team in each conference, creating what it called a "Super Wild Card Weekend.”
There were three Wild Card games on Saturday and three games on Sunday.
This season, the league added a 17th regular season game.
With the addition of a Monday night game to the 2021 playoffs, Super Wild Card Weekend will now have two Wild Card games on Saturday, three on Sunday and one on Monday.
For the 2021 season, CBS and NBC will each broadcast two Super Wild Card Weekend games.
Fox and ESPN/ABC will each have one.
The broadcast partner for the Monday night game of Super Wild Card Weekend is yet to be determined.
The NFL this month said that, following last year’s NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon, which was a success in the ratings and won two Sports Emmy Awards, Nickelodeon, CBS Sports and the league are bringing “slimetime” back to prime time with a Wild Card game scheduled for Jan. 16.
The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon — with new content specially created for kids and families — will air alongside CBS Sports’ coverage of the game.
According to the NFL, “The 2020 playoff expansion ensured that two additional Wild Card teams — one each in the American and National Football Conferences — qualify for the playoffs.
“The No. 1 seed in each conference will receive a bye in the Wild Card round. The remaining division champions in each conference will be seeded 2, 3 and 4 by record, followed by the next three teams per conference with the best records seeded 5, 6 and 7.
“AFC and NFC Wild Card games will feature the 2 seed hosting the 7 seed, the 3 seed hosting the 6 seed and the 4 seed hosting the 5 seed.”
‘Slimetime’ Returning To Prime Time In Wild Card Game
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