>If the regular season was 16 weeks long then I suppose there would be 16 games per week.
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>From what you're saying, I'm guessing the season is longer than 16 weeks, so teams get an extra week off from time to time.
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>Right, each team gets 1 week off, though some teams get the week off as early as Week 4 and others later. So there are 17 calendar weeks in the regular season, and then playoffs in January.

And the Super Bowl has slipped into February, which I think is a little nuts.

This year it will be in New York, which is also nuts. An outdoor game in NYC during winter?