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It was strike-related: CBS was already scheduled to show a tennis tournament for what was supposed to be the bye weekend before the Super Bowl, so they simply moved the game to Saturday.Mark wrote:Hello. Can someone tell me why the NFC Championship Game for the 1982 season was played on a Saturday? For some reason I had always thought the strike had something to do with it but I cannot think of why...