NFL Week 7

Guide Note:

This page contains the schedule and other news and information pertaining to the seventh week of the 2008 season in the National Football League. The games will be played on Sunday October 19 and Monday October 20. This week marks the fourth consecutive week during which some of the teams in the league will not play because of their bye week. This means that the Cardinals, Eagles, Falcons, and Jaguars will not play. The doubleheader action this week belongs to CBS, and one of the late games Sunday afternoon features the New York Jets visiting the Oakland Raiders. 40 years prior, the two teams met in Oakland and NBC, which was televising the game at the time, switched the east coast viewers away from the game before it ended to a made-for-television movie version of the story Heidi. Irate fans flooded the telephone switchboard at NBC, causing it to overload. The game has become known as the Heidi Bowl. NBC now carries the Sunday night game, and this week's contest features the Seattle Seahawks visiting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The week ends on Monday when the New England Patriots host the Denver Broncos.