NFL free agency has faded and the draft is still a couple weeks away, enabling the NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball to sort of temporarily hijack the sports calendar. But the nation’s most popular sports league knows how to keep itself in the headlines.
Proof? Every team’s opponent has already been determined for the 2016 season. If you want to know who your team is playing next year, click here. But every spring, American sports fans still inexplicably obsess over the order in which those games will be played. And the NFL releases that order with a ridiculous amount of pomp and circumstance.
In fact, the league has found a way to make news simply by announcing that they’ll soon be able to announce the schedule, which was completed on Wednesday.
'16 #NFL regular season sked is done. stay tuned for announcement on when it'll be announced pic.twitter.com/46jpmEwuJc
— Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) April 13, 2016
Fans don’t really have much reason to get excited about the annual schedule release extravaganza, but it’s easy to understand why teams are so eager to get their hands on their home dates for the fall. And several of them indicated that in hilarious fashion.
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— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) April 13, 2016
.@NFLprguy We'll just leave this right here. https://t.co/YpAbU4XVkj
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) April 13, 2016
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— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) April 13, 2016
.@NFLprguy sooner rather than later? pic.twitter.com/T5pvaOaqXl
— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) April 13, 2016
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— Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) April 13, 2016
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— Tennessee Titans (@Titans) April 13, 2016
