You know that the END is NEAR when they CANCEL the last SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL game of the season.
As the great Dandy Don would croon....
“Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over....”.
There was never a game scheduled to be played on Sunday Night in the first place!
There are a lot of morons in the league office, but when you see you have New Years Eve (and all the wives and girlfriends that want to go to a party) to compete with, you don’t schedule against it.
The NCAA learned that a couple of years ago with their Playoff semi-finals or huge bowl games that they scheduled for New Years Eve — their ratings tanked and the networks decided to not be that stupid again...