pittsburgh steelers won the most games in the nfl this year.
who won the most games in the nfl this year?
pittsburgh steelers
since winning the championship in 1947, the team suffered many losing seasons, and currently holds the longest active championship drought of north american sports at 70 consecutive seasons, because major league baseball's chicago cubs ended their 108-year drought in 2016. in 2012 the cardinals became the first nfl franchise to lose 700 games since its inception. the franchise's all-time win-loss record (including regular season and playoff games) at the conclusion of the 2018 season is ( in the regular season, in the playoffs). they have been to the playoffs ten times and have won seven playoff games, three of which were victories during their run in the 2008–09 nfl playoffs. during that season, they won their only nfc championship game since the 1970 afl–nfl merger, and reached super bowl xliii (losing 27–23 to the pittsburgh steelers). the team has also won five division titles (, , , and ) since their 1947–48 nfl championship game appearances. the cardinals are the only nfl team who have never lost a playoff game at home, with a 5–0 record: the 1947 nfl championship game, two postseason victories during the aforementioned 2008–09 nfl playoffs, one during the 2009–10 playoffs, and one during the 2015–16 playoffs.
arizona cardinals
on february 5, 2014, the league announced it had sold off eight weeks of the nfl network's "thursday night football" package to cbs, who outbid competitors abc, fox, nbc, and turner sports. nfl network will simulcast cbs' thursday night games from weeks 2 through 8, will continue to carry the thursday night games from week 9 onward, and will also carry two saturday night games (week 16 doubleheader) for the first time since 2011, with one of those games being simulcast on cbs. all of these games (except for the one nfl network-only saturday night game) will be announced by cbs' lead commentating team of jim nantz (play-by-play) and phil simms (color analyst). the deal with cbs was initially only for the 2014 season, with the league having the option to extend it for an additional season. cbs is paying an additional $275 million for the package. local cbs affiliates automatically get the local simulcast rights to any game carried only on nfl network. the league exercised the option to extend its agreement with cbs through the 2015 season. for 2016 and 2017, the league split a ten-game package of thursday night games between nbc and cbs, with each paying an estimated $225 million per season for five games; cbs's games will be in the early part of the season as before, while nbc's will cover later in the season. under the terms of nfl network's retransmission agreements with cable providers, the nfl has included a stipulation requiring seven games in the "thursday night football" package to be carried solely on nfl network; for the 2018 season, potential bidders were free to place a bid on a package ranging from anywhere between four and eleven games. fox, the winning bidder, bought all eleven games that were up for bids. as the eighteen total games involve more time slots than can be accommodated with the fourteen thursday night time slots (excluding the kickoff, thanksgiving, and the last week of the season when no thursday game is played), four of the games are played on days other than thursdays (usually this involves at least one game in london in a sunday morning time slot and the remainder on saturdays, all nfl network exclusives), or if christmas lands on a monday, either a christmas eve or christmas day game.
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