For the first time in 28 years, an NFL season has stretched into Week 18 – though back in 1993, the then-28 team league was experimenting with two bye weeks per club during the regular season.
Of course, circumstances are different now, the first 17-game regular season reaching its conclusion. Yet the NFL continues to tinker with its ever-evolving format, serving up a Saturday doubleheader for the 2021 campaign – the matchups were TBD when the schedule was unveiled in the spring and weren't finalized until the completion of Week 17 – even though all 32 teams have played their regular-season finales on Sunday in recent years.
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