The stations that are broadcasting the games on Sunday afternoons get to decide which game they show. There are only a certain amount of games they can pick from, though.
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You would have seen it televised on the NFL Network.
ESPN is televising the Cincinnati at Atlanta preseason game starting at 8 PM.
Base pay for NFL players in 1970 was 29,000 a year. Because the 70's saw the rise of televised endorsement deals, by 1980 starting pay would more than triple.
An NFL game was televised for the first time when NBC broadcast the Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Eagles game from Ebbets Field to the approximately 1,000 sets then in New York. 1939
The NFL's regular season in 1987 was 15 games. The season was shortened by a strike.