Underplayed Gems

NFL Network Special (2017)

NFL Network Special poster
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United States
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a branding used for NFL games that air on the NFL Network. It covers games played on days other than Thursday, including international games and Saturday contests. The branding changes depending on the year and the specific game.

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What happens

NFL Network Exclusive Game Series (formerly called NFL Network Special) is the branding currently used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games aired by NFL Network. Prior to the 2022 NFL season, the NFL Network Special branding was only used on Thursday Night Football (TNF) games not played on Thursdays; as of 2022, this arrangement has included at least one NFL London Game played in a Sunday morning (U.S. time) window, and one or more late-season games on Saturdays. In 2009, after having briefly used Saturday Night Football to brand the games (alongside the overall blanket title Run to the Playoffs), all games in the package were branded as a "special edition" of Thursday Night Football or a variant thereof, regardless of the day on which the game aired. By 2017, the schedule-agnostic branding NFL Network Special was introduced. The branding NFL Christmas Special was also used for Christmas Day games in the TNF package, some of which having fallen into this segment of the package. In the 2022 season, Thursday Night Football moved exclusively to Amazon Prime Video. NFL Network will still carry a package of exclusive games, consisting mainly of international games and late-season Saturday games, with the Thursday Night Football-centric branding having been dropped and replaced by individual brands for each game (such as Saturday Showdown for the late-season tripleheader). As with all league games carried by a cable network or streaming provider, each game is syndicated to a local broadcast station (or two stations in some cases) in the markets of the two teams, per NFL broadcast rules. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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