List of Thursday Night Football results (2006–present)
List of Thursday Night Football NFL results
The following is a detailed list of results and scores from National Football League (NFL) games aired on Thursday Night Football. Starting with the 2006 NFL season, NFL Network was awarded the rights to air Thursday night games regularly (with some extra broadcasts on Saturday nights under the NFL Network Exclusive Game Series branding). Previously, games played on Thursdays and Saturdays were broadcast on TNT, ESPN, and ABC. In 2014, CBS Sports shared rights with NFL Network for the package, with NBC Sports and Twitter joining CBS and NFL Network in 2016. From 2017 until 2021, Amazon Prime Video acquired non-exclusive streaming rights to stream all of the broadcast portion of Thursday Night Football games. In 2018, Fox Sports began to share rights with the NFL Network. Starting in 2022, Amazon became the exclusive home of Thursday Night Football, with the NFL Network airing select late-season Saturday games.
Broncos–Chiefs rivalry First prime-time Thanksgiving game in NFL history held at the request of Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, who had asked the NFL to schedule a third game for years. At the time of the game, Hunt was hospitalized in Dallas, Texas, and died weeks later at the age of 74.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
After being benched following a poor performance the week before, Donovan McNabb led the Eagles to a victory over the Cardinals on Thanksgiving Day. The two teams would later meet two months later in the NFC Championship with the Cardinals winning 32–25.
The 2009 season featured a Friday night game on December 25, as the Thursday that week was Christmas Eve, and the NFL tried not to schedule games that night in deference to the holiday (a lone exception being a Monday Night Football game in 2007 due to scheduling conflicts caused by ESPN's broadcast contracts). Also, the start times were pushed back by five minutes, to 8:20 p.m. Eastern time (except for the December 25 game, starting at 7:30 PM EST/6:30 CST).
Starting with this season, the NFL expanded to a full season Thursday Night Football schedule. However, there were some changes with the biggest being that every team was guaranteed a prime-time appearance. In addition to the season opener, the prime-time Thanksgiving game also aired on NBC.
Starting with the 2014 season, the NFL and CBS signed a deal that would put part of the Thursday Night Football package on national prime-time. CBS Sports, with an NFL Network simulcast, would air eight games (mostly the first half), while the NFL Network would air the other eight games (mostly the second half) exclusively. The deal was for one year with the option of a second year in 2015, which the NFL chose to exercise.
For the 2016 and 2017 seasons, a new Thursday Night Football deal took effect. Thursday Night Football was now an 18-game schedule with CBS broadcasting 5 games, NBC broadcasting 5 games, and the NFL Network simulcasting the whole season with 8 games exclusively. CBS Sports and NBC Sports each produced 4 NFL Network-only games.[10] The NFL also sold the digital rights to the package separately to Twitter.[11] Due to scheduling conflicts, NBC Sports had Mike Tirico team up with Cris Collinsworth for the Giants-Eagles game. Tirico, Doug Flutie, and Tony Dungy also called Dolphins-Jets and Ravens-Steelers.
Chiefs took over first place in the AFC West with the win. They later went on to win the division and first-round bye as AFC's No. 2 seed via a head-to-head tiebreaker with the Raiders, who finished with the same record as the Chiefs.[12][13] Chiefs–Raiders rivalry
Eagles–Giants rivalry NYG win: Clinch playoff berth, Stay alive for NFC East, a first-round bye, and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs as NFC No. 1 seed NYG loss: Dallas Cowboys clinch the NFC East, a first-round bye, and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs as NFC No. 1 seed
2017 season
2017 marked the second and final year of the NFL's Thursday Night Football contract with CBS and NBC, as Fox would take over next season. Also, Amazon replaced Twitter as the digital rights holder. Also, along with the change in digital viewing, it was announced that there were 11 games simulcast between CBS, NBC, and NFL Network. While CBS kept the original 5 games, NBC simulcasted 6 games with NFL Network. Also, the change meant that CBS produced 4 NFL Network-only games, while NBC produced 3 NFL Network-only games, including a Week 15 Saturday doubleheader.[14] In addition, Mike Tirico replaced Al Michaels full-time on Thursday night games. Tirico became the new studio host, replacing Bob Costas, who retired from many major jobs with the network, like the Olympics. Michaels focused on Sunday night games, while Tirico handled Thursday nights with Cris Collinsworth or Kurt Warner.
Brock Osweiler came in for an injured Trevor Siemian, and threw for 194 yards and 2 touchdowns, leading the Broncos to the victory. 2016 Week 2 Rematch
Kickoff at 4:30 ET; Tirico and Warner are on the call. The last ever game was simulcast on NBC and NFL Network, and the last game was with NBC Sports production. DeAndre Hopkins made an incredible circus catch for a touchdown, which was the Texans’ only offensive spark of the game, Monday game.
2018 marked the first year of Thursday Night Football on Fox. Fox Sports produced all 18 regular season games with 11 of those games on the Fox network (between weeks 4–15).[15] Starting in 2018, the NFL moved the start time of Thursday Night Football back, from 8:25 p.m. ET to 8:20 p.m. ET. All TNF games on Fox were streamed online via Amazon Prime Video, which replaced Twitter in 2017, under the CBS/NBC contract, with fellow Amazon subsidiary Twitch streaming all games as well with Prime Video.
This game marked the end of a 635-day winless streak for the Cleveland Browns (19 games); their last win coming on December 24, 2016, versus the San Diego Chargers.
Mike Williams caught a go-ahead two-point conversion to win the game, with 4 seconds left in regulation, to go along with 2 touchdowns, as the Chargers clinched a playoff berth with the win. Chargers–Chiefs rivalry
Ravens clinch second straight AFC North title as quarterback Lamar Jackson breaks Michael Vick's record, set in 2006, for quarterback rushing yards in a season.
The Vikings-Saints Christmas game kicked off at 4:30 p.m. ET. Week 15 and 16 had games on Saturday. For Week 15, the following two games were flexed: Bills-Broncos, and Panthers-Packers. For Week 16, the following three games were flexed: Buccaneers-Lions, 49ers-Cardinals (Prime Video only), and Dolphins-Raiders. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all international series games were moved back to the United States. Also, some games involving teams that had COVID outbreaks, had games moved back. This was the case with two games on the TNF schedule.[18]
The game was originally scheduled for Thursday, October 15 at 8:20 PM, but was delayed to Monday, October 19, at 5:00 PM Eastern Time, due to the Bills–Titans game, originally scheduled for Sunday, October 11, being postponed to Tuesday, October 13, as a result of a COVID-19 outbreak in the Titans organization. The game remained on Fox, NFL Network, and Prime Video.
Game was originally scheduled for Thursday, December 3 at 8:20 PM, but was delayed to Monday, December 7, at 5:00 PM Eastern Time, and later Tuesday, December 8, at 8:15 PM Eastern Time due to the Ravens-Steelers game, originally scheduled for Thursday, November 26 (Thanksgiving), being postponed three times, a first for an NFL game this season, as a result of a COVID-19 outbreak in the Ravens organization. The game remained on Fox, NFL Network, and Prime Video.
Beginning with the 2021 season, the NFL expanded to a 17-game season. This was Fox's last season covering TNF, as the rights shifted to Amazon Prime exclusively in the 2022 season.
Thursday Night Football started exclusively streaming on Prime Video in 2022. However, the games were also simulcast by local affiliates in teams' home markets. While the entire schedule was released on May 12, the first Amazon-exclusive Thursday Night game, Chargers–Chiefs, was unveiled during the first round of the 2022 NFL draft on April 28. All games aired on Thursday nights at 8:15 PM ET. Because of NFL rules, all games were simulcast on an over-the-airtelevision station in the home markets of the teams playing.[19] A free, legal simulcast was also available from this season onwards on Twitch's Prime Video stream on desktops and laptops for those not in the local markets, but was not available on mobile devices due to NFL+.
Zac Taylor vs. his former team Tua Tagovailoa and Joe Burrow's first NFL meeting Tagovailoa suffered a concussion midway in the game, and would cause the NFL to change its concussion protocols
This was the first season that flexible scheduling could be used on TNF for weeks 13 to 17 (with a limit of two games per season allowed to be flexed),[20] however no games were flexed.
This will be the second season that flexible scheduling could be used on TNF for weeks 13 to 17 on a 28-day notice (with a limit of two games per season allowed to be flexed, the same team can't be flexed both times nor a team can't play two road TNF games).[40]
* indicates that a game that's possible to be flexed.