NFL Network Thursday Night Football results (2006–present)
The following is a detailed list of results and scores from National Football League games aired on NFL Network's Thursday Night Football. Starting with the 2006 NFL season, NFL Network was awarded the rights to air Thursday night games (with some extra broadcasts on Saturday nights). Previously, games played on Thursdays were broadcast on TNT and ESPN.
Results by season
Listed below are games and their respective results played from 2006—present.
2006 season
| Day |
Date |
Visiting team |
Final score |
Host team |
Stadium |
Game notes |
| Thursday |
November 23 |
Denver Broncos |
10–19 |
Kansas City Chiefs |
Arrowhead Stadium |
First prime-time Thanksgiving game in NFL history held in the request of Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, whom 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. |
| Thursday |
November 30 |
Baltimore Ravens |
7–13 |
Cincinnati Bengals |
Paul Brown Stadium |
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| Thursday |
December 7 |
Cleveland Browns |
7–27 |
Pittsburgh Steelers |
Heinz Field |
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| Thursday |
December 14 |
San Francisco 49ers |
24–14 |
Seattle Seahawks |
Qwest Field |
Unsafe weather conditions and rain storm delay game by twenty minutes. |
| Saturday |
December 16 |
Dallas Cowboys |
38–28 |
Atlanta Falcons |
Georgia Dome |
After the Cowboys-Falcons game, Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens came to the NFL Total Access set and acknowledged spitting in the face of Falcons' cornerback DeAngelo Hall early in the contest. There is no video, from that night's telecast or any other source, that is known to have captured the incident, but Owens was fined $30,000 by the NFL. |
| Thursday |
December 21 |
Minnesota Vikings |
7–9 |
Green Bay Packers |
Lambeau Field |
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| Saturday |
December 23 |
Kansas City Chiefs |
20–9 |
Oakland Raiders |
McAfee Coliseum |
Sideline reporter Adam Schefter reported that the Oakland Raiders had begun the process to fire head coach Art Shell, which was immediately refuted by Al Davis. Weeks later, the report was true and the Raiders indeed relieved Shell of his duties. |
| Saturday |
December 30 |
New York Giants |
34–28 |
Washington Redskins |
FedEx Field |
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Additional notes
According to Nielsen Media Research, the Broncos-Chiefs game that opened this package was the highest-rated program on cable/satellite TV in the United States on November 23, 2006, with a 6.8 rating (among available households) and an average of 4.2 million households. These numbers are especially remarkable, considering that millions of potential fans were unable to see the game due to their cable systems not making it available to them.
2007 season
| Day |
Date |
Visiting team |
Final score |
Host team |
Stadium |
Game notes |
| Thursday |
November 22 |
Indianapolis Colts |
31–13 |
Atlanta Falcons |
Georgia Dome |
Fifth straight Thanksgiving Day start for QB Joey Harrington, who was on his third different team in as many years. |
| Thursday |
November 29 |
Green Bay Packers |
27–37 |
Dallas Cowboys |
Texas Stadium |
First game since 1990 season featuring two 10-1 teams. Eventual tie-breaker for home-field advantage in the playoffs. Following the game, Bryant Gumbel refers to Dallas quarterback Tony Romo as Rick Romo. |
| Thursday |
December 6 |
Chicago Bears |
16–24 |
Washington Redskins |
FedEx Field |
Redskins play game just two days after the burial of Sean Taylor. Taylor was fatally wounded in his Miami, Florida home the week before. |
| Thursday |
December 13 |
Denver Broncos |
13–31 |
Houston Texans |
Reliant Stadium |
Former Broncos offensive coordinator and current Texans head coach Gary Kubiak defeats his former employer in first meeting. |
| Saturday |
December 15 |
Cincinnati Bengals |
13–20 |
San Francisco 49ers |
Monster Park |
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| Thursday |
December 20 |
Pittsburgh Steelers |
41–24 |
St. Louis Rams |
Edward Jones Dome |
Former Rams running back and current NFL Network analyst Marshall Faulk's jersey #28 is retired in St. Louis. |
| Saturday |
December 22 |
Dallas Cowboys |
20–13 |
Carolina Panthers |
Bank of America Stadium |
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| Saturday |
December 29 |
New England Patriots |
38–35 (details) |
New York Giants |
Giants Stadium |
Patriots complete a 16-0 regular season finish, the first undefeated NFL regular season in 35 years. The game was simulcast on NFL Network, NBC, and CBS. The game was also available to watch online at NFL.com/Live. The game was the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of any kind of an NFL game since the first Super Bowl in 1967, when CBS and NBC both televised the first meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League.[1]
Patriots QB Tom Brady surpasses Peyton Manning (49 TD; 2004) with his 50th touchdown of the season, a pass to WR Randy Moss, which coincidentally was Moss' 23rd receiving touchdown of the year surpassing Jerry Rice (22 TD; 1987). The Patriots became the highest scoring team in a single season (594 points) surpassing the 1998 Vikings' 556 points.
The Patriots and Giants would meet again in Super Bowl XLII just months later. The Patriots were still on their undefeated streak (18-0) while the Giants were winners of an NFL-record 10-straight road games. The Giants defeated the Patriots in the rematch by a score of 17-14 to claim their third Super Bowl championship.
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2008 season
2009 season
The 2009 season featured a Friday night game on December 25, as the Thursday that week is Christmas Eve, and the NFL tries 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).
2010 season
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