Every NFL team gets at least one standalone game each year. That had generally been associated with every team getting a primetime game, but the NFL bucked that trend by not giving one particular team any night games. That team—the Carolina Panthers. Their lone standalone game was an early morning battle with the hapless Giants.
The NFL schedule gets released in full on Wednesday night. We already know all of match-ups that’ll take place during the season, but now we get the dates and times and networks for those games. They’re truly riveting bits of information that are totally worth the entire week’s worth of coverage the NFL and their partners devote to it.