NFL Eyeing Primetime Slot For Future Sunday Playoff Games

Tonight's Steelers-Chiefs game is the first in the divisional round's history to be played on a Sunday night, and ESPN’s Adam Schefter said the league is "expected to consider doing this in the future." Schefter said he thinks future Sunday night playoff games would be "for Wild Card weekend and this (Divisional) weekend." Schefter: "This is a weekend where we have the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday. A lot of people don't go to work. Why not have a Sunday night game that draws an extra 10 plus million viewers?" He added, “The NFL is not there and they're (not) going to talk about this yet, but would it surprise anybody if we never saw another 1:00 divisional playoff game again?” ("NFL Insiders: Sunday Edition,” ESPN, 1/15).