What NFL Teams Play on Thursday Night Football?

Check out the NFL teams playing on Thursday Night Football this season.

Introduction

The National Football League (NFL) has been playing games on Thursday nights since 2006. In that time, there have been some great match-ups and some not-so-great match-ups. But one thing is for sure – NFL fans love their Thursday Night Football!

So, what NFL teams play on Thursday Night Football? Well, the answer is all of them! That’s right, every team in the NFL has played on Thursday night at least once since the inception of Thursday Night Football.

So, if you’re looking for a particular team to watch on Thursday night, you’re in luck! There’s bound to be a game featuring your favorite team at some point during the season.

NFL Teams that Play on Thursday Night Football

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America, and the highest professional level of American football in the world. NFL games are broadcast on Thursday nights, giving fans a chance to watch their favorite team play live. Here is a list of NFL teams that play on Thursday night football.

Pittsburgh Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC.

In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were mostly pioneers and participants in some of the league’s most memorable games and rivalries of that era, since 1970 the Steelers have been one of the most successful NFL teams, winning more Super Bowl titles (6) than any other franchise; this includes winning their most recent title in February 2017. They currently hold the record for most conference championships (8) with their most recent appearance being in January 2019.

Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Ravens compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. The team plays its home games at M&T Bank Stadium and is headquartered in Owings Mills.

The Ravens were established in 1996, when Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to relocate the franchise from Cleveland to Baltimore. As part of a settlement between Modell, the city of Cleveland, and the other NFL teams, Modell was required to leave the Browns’ name and colors in Cleveland for a future expansion franchise or that city’s taxpayerfunded stadium. The Ravens were thus founded as the Baltimore Browns, replacing Cleveland’s previous franchise that began play in 1946. The Browns’ intellectual property—including team name, logos, training facility, and history—remained withModell and were included in the transaction enabling him to establish the Ravens. A new stadium would not be built for the Browns until 1999.

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1919, and is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States. Home games have been played at Lambeau Field since 1957.

The Packers are the last of the “small town teams” which were common in the NFL during the league’s early days of 1922 and 1932. Founded in 1919 by Earl “Curly” Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the franchise traces its lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. Between 1919 and 1920, the Packers competed against other semi-pro clubs from around Wisconsin and Michigan, before joining the American Professional Football Association (APFA), now known as the NFL, in 1921. Although Green Bay is by far the smallest major league professional sports market in North America, Forbes ranked the Packers as also being one of only two franchises (Kansas City Chiefs being another) to be profitable every single year since their inception into league play, having never posted a losing season at any point over their 90+ years of competition till 2010.

New England Patriots

The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston region. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is located 28 miles (45 km) southwest of downtown Boston.

The Patriots are also headquartered at Gillette Stadium. An original member of the American Football League (AFL), the Patriots joined the NFL in 1970 as part of the AFL–NFL merger. The team changed its name from the original Boston Patriots after relocating to Foxborough in 1971.

The Patriots have appeared in the Super Bowl ten times in franchise history, winning six of them. The Patriots have since become one of the most successful teams in NFL history, winning 15 AFC East titles and 11 AFC Championships, while claiming 18 divisional championships overall (the most among all teams in NFL history).

Conclusion

After looking at the NFL schedule, we can conclude that there are a total of 13 Thursday night football games in the 2019 season. Of those 13 games, 8 are intra-divisional match-ups, 4 are inter-conference battles, and 1 is the annual Thanksgiving game.