No Thursday or Monday games, but NFL gives us 5 TV games this Sunday

There won't be any Thursday Night Football or Monday Night Football or even Thursday Night Football on Saturday night this week.

But the NFL will have five games televised this Sunday — the most you will see in one day all season on national broadcast networks — for the final day of the regular season. Obviously, DirecTV carries every game, but not everyone can afford the Sunday Ticket package.

The NFL has scheduled all 16 games of Week 17 on the final Sunday since 2008 in order to create playoff excitement. The league also gives both CBS and Fox stations a doubleheader broadcast on the same Sunday for the only time of the season.

However, this Sunday only two playoff spots are at stake — and it would take a minor miracle for Houston to lose the AFC South to Indianapolis while Pittsburgh could still pass the New York Jets for the last AFC wild-card spot.

Among the area's five televised games, the best might be the nearest to Las Vegas: The Seattle Seahawks at the Arizona Cardinals at 1:25 p.m. on Fox. Seattle is fighting for wild-card seeding and Arizona could be playing for the No. 1 over all seed if Tampa Bay beat Carolina earlier in the day.

The next best game would be the Sunday night matchup (Minnesota at Green Bay at 5:30 p.m. on NBC) in which the winner will get the NFC Central title and a home game in the first round. Both teams have already clinched playoff spots.

Sunday's complete schedule for the Las Vegas TV market is set:

* New York Jets vs. Buffalo, 10 a.m., CBS

* Washington at Dallas, 10 a.m., Fox

* San Diego at Denver, 1:25 p.m., CBS

* Seattle at Arizona, 1:25 p.m., Fox

* Minnesota at Green Bay, 5:30 p.m., NBC