NFL Network Exclusive Game Series

NFL Network Exclusive Game Series
The current NFL Network logo for its exclusive package of games as of the 2022 season.
Also known as
  • Saturday Night Football (2006–2008)
  • Thursday Night Special (2016)
  • Thursday Night Football: Saturday Edition (2014–2015)
  • NFL Network Special (2016–2022)
GenreNFL football telecasts
Presented byList of NFL Network Exclusive Game Series broadcasters
Opening themeNFL GameDay theme
Ending themeSame as open
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes4 per season
Production
Production locationsVarious NFL stadiums
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time180 minutes or until game ends (inc. adverts)
Production company
Original release
NetworkNFL Network
ReleaseDecember 16, 2006 (2006-12-16) –
present
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NFL Network Exclusive Game Series (formerly called NFL Network Special) is the branding currently used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games aired by NFL Network. Prior to the 2022 NFL season, the NFL Network Special branding was only used on Thursday Night Football (TNF) games not played on Thursdays (from 2022 on it is used for all games); as of 2022, this arrangement has included at least one NFL London Game played in a Sunday morning (U.S. time) window, and one or more late-season games on Saturdays.

After having briefly used Saturday Night Football to brand the games (alongside the overall blanket title Run to the Playoffs), from 2008 through 2016 the games were branded as "special editions" of Thursday Night Football or a variant thereof (such as Thursday Night Special), and later NFL Network Special. The branding NFL Christmas Special has also been used for Christmas Day games in the TNF package, some of which having fallen into this segment of the package).

In the 2022 season, Thursday Night Football moved exclusively to Amazon Prime Video. NFL Network will still carry a package of exclusive games, consisting mainly of international games and late-season Saturday games, with the Thursday Night Football-centric branding having been dropped and replaced by individual brands for each game (such as Saturday Showdown for the late-season tripleheader).

As with all league games carried by a cable network or streaming provider, each game is syndicated to a local broadcast station (or two stations in some cases) in the markets of the two teams, per NFL broadcast rules.