live nfl trivia every wednesday night on twitch at NUMBER_TOKEN pm eastern come show off your football knowledge for a chance to win cash prizes check the link in the description to find out more and now on with our feature presentation think of your typical sunday window of nfl games if you're on the east coast the day starts off with one o'clock games then you have your later games and the four o'clock slate whether they start at NUMBER_TOKEN the game is being shown on a network that is only airing one game that week or NUMBER_TOKEN if the game is on a network with a double header then you have the sunday night football game at NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN which is usually over by NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. if you're still up by this point you're probably getting ready for bed and getting ready for what lies ahead on monday and with the upcoming week for the most part with a few exceptions on the earlier side with games in london it's the same sunday format every single week with regards to what time the games are on but there was one week where that was not the case imagine after watching sunday night football thinking that the week is done you realize that amazingly enough there was another game on that has not started yet it's NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN pm on the east coast and at NUMBER_TOKEN minutes before midnight there's still one more game that is about to take place that is going to make this football sunday go well into the wee hours of the morning on monday well you don't have to go too far back for this crazy scenario actually happening in NUMBER_TOKEN the san diego chargers and oakland raiders played a game that started at NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN at night on the east coast and did not end until NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN in the morning and this is the story behind the latest game in nfl history before i talk about the game we need some context to understand why the game was being moved to this time slot in the first place and what caused this somewhat unprecedented delay it's week five of the nfl season and the oakland raiders and san diego chargers are set to square off against each other in his afc west rivalry matchup for the raiders their season was not looking great through the first quarter after four games they were NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN with their two most recent losses at the hand of denver and washington being by double digits the raiders were starting to already slide out of the playoff picture along with a plethora of teams at two and two he had the dolphins and titans of NUMBER_TOKEN yet not leading their divisions and the chiefs at NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN yet not leading the afc west thanks to the four no denver broncos it was only week five but for the raiders this game against the charters was huge if the raiders fell to NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN it seemed highly unlikely that they would have any shot at the postseason and they'd be on the outside looking in for the NUMBER_TOKENth straight year as for the chargers this season has been pretty inconsistent through their first four games on one hand the offense was playing lights out they had gone over NUMBER_TOKEN yards of total offense in half of their games and phillip rivers was playing at an absurdly high level heck maybe he was playing the best football of his career even though it was overshadowed by what peyton manning was doing in that same division through the first four games rivers completed NUMBER_TOKEN of his
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