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Thursday night blowouts

Four straight Thursday games settled by over 20 points

The Thursday night games have been crappy this year. Blowout City.

The league started doing these Thursday night games in 2006. Since then, there have been 63 of them. The games the last three weeks have been the biggest blowouts of all of them. And only 10 others were settled by 20-plus points, and the only other 2014 game – that Pittsburgh/Baltimore opener – is in that group.

BIGGEST THURSDAY BLOWOUTS
YearWinnerLoserDiff
2014at Atlanta 56Tampa Bay 1442
2014at Green Bay 42Minnesota 1032
2014NY Giants 45at Washington 1431
2012NY Giants 36at Carolina 729
2008at San Diego 34Oakland 727
2010at San Diego 34San Francisco 727
2011at Atlanta 41Jacksonville 1427
2009San Diego 42at Tennessee 1725
2010at Pittsburgh 27Carolina 324
2013San Francisco 35at St. Louis 1124
2014at Baltimore 29Pittsburgh 623
2012Cincinnati 34at Philadelphia 1321
2006at Pittsburgh 27Cleveland 720

It’s weird.

Also note that all of these teams are going to play again later in the year. Prior to those games clicking in, I will do a brief research project. I will check all other divisional games from the last 20 years or so. We’ll see how (with divisional games) the second game tends to go when the first one is a blowout.

—Ian Allan

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