NFL Classics

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NFL Classics is a series of videotaped rebroadcasts of National Football League games that air on the NFL Network. The show airs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. Eastern time.

The program, the first such series to air on any American television network, premiered on May 10, 2007 with a re-air of the Chicago Bears' Monday Night Football comeback victory over the Arizona Cardinals in 2006.

NFL Classics is an extension of an earlier series called Super Bowl Classics, which showed full-length re-airs of some of the most memorable Super Bowl games.

The NFL is the last United States-based major professional sports league to make such broadcasts available on TV. Previously, NFL Network and ESPN Classic had aired NFL's Greatest Games, 90-minute edited versions using footage from NFL Films. The other major leagues - MLB, NBA, NHL, and NASCAR - have all had games (or races, in NASCAR's case) air on ESPN Classic. However, at this time, full-length MLB games are shown on Classic only occasionally, while NHL games are presently aired on NHL Network.

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[edit] Super Bowl Classics

[edit] 2007

1This was not on the original NFLN schedule; it replaced a scheduled telecast of the Las Vegas All-American Classic, which was cancelled

2The last minute of the first half (including the Rocky Bleier touchdown reception) was missing from the footage.

[edit] 2008

This schedule reflects only game re-airs that NFL Network did not show the previous year. Also, most of the premieres tied in to the participating teams in Super Bowl XLII and to the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only perfect team for an entire season in NFL history.

[edit] NFL Classics

[edit] May 2007

[edit] June 2007

[edit] July 2007

[edit] December 2007

Except for the Dec. 8 and 21 games, all of these contests promoted the December 28 game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants which was shown on NFLN, CBS, and NBC in a three-way simulcast.

[edit] January 2008

[edit] June 2008

Beginning with this season, NFL Classics is a new series of 2 1/2-hour programs with opening and closing sequences and some editing. This was scheduled to run on Monday nights for 10 weeks.

  • June 2, 2008- Miami Dolphins 28, New York Jets 24, November 27, 1994: With the Jets leading 24-6 in the third quarter of a game that, if won by New York, would result in a first-place tie with Miami in the AFC East, Dan Marino throws two more touchdown passes to Mark Ingram to cut the lead to three. Then with just over 2 minutes left in regulation, Marino led a last-minute drive that culminated in a "fake spike" pass where Marino pretended to spike the ball (which would stop the clock) before throwing the winning touchdown pass to Ingram with 22 seconds left.
  • June 9, 2008- Cincinnati Bengals 27, San Diego Chargers 7 January 10, 1982: In one of the coldest games in NFL history, with a wind chill falling below -35 degrees Fahrenheit, the Bengals were the only team able to deal with the weather thanks to a solid performance on defense and on offense (led by a three touchdown performance by Cincinnati's quarterback and 1981's NFL Most Valuable Player Award winner, Ken Anderson,) to win the AFC Championship Game and face the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XVI.

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