Deus Irae

I'm not sure 60 minutes is going to like this....

NFL bumps late-afternoon kickoffs by 10 minutes | ProFootballTalk

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Deus Irae

And there's an update:

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TriplecHamp

Nothing worse than having to watch the final 10 minutes of a goddamn jags/jets game instead of watching the Pats.

Rob0729

I kinda like this move. There are more than a few times when a great game is coming down to the wire and they have to switch to another game that none of us care about like the Giants vs. the Cardinals.

ctpatsfan77

OTOH, the JEST/Bills OT game from 2009 (the same day as the Snow Bowl) was absolutely priceless.

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Rob0729

Well, that is kinda irrelevant since NBC would cut out of the Jets/Jag game to broadcast the start of the Pats' game. It works the other way in that if the early game is great, you won't cut out of the end of the game to broadcast a crappy Giants' game.

TheBeers

Good move.. also allows 10 extra minutes for last minute FF lineup changes!

jmt57

As a football fan I'm perfectly fine with the change. From a business perspective I'm really surprised that CBS and Fox agreed to the change. Viewers tune in to see a show and it's not there; rather than wait they're likely to change the channel, start watching something else, and never remember to flip back. Similarly the biggest profit center for affiliates is their local news; when that's not on at it's normal time viewers will simply flip over to another channel. End result is lower ratings which mean lower profits.

Again as a football fine I'm fine with the change, so we can avoid overlap, potential 'blackout' of the end of a game being watched, and other reasons discussed previously; I'm just surprised the networks signed off on the deal.

Deus Irae

Yeah, I hear what you're saying. It seems to me that the easier, and smarter, solution would just have been to give the networks discretion about which to carry, and allow for the sort of two window viewing which technology has granted us the ability to use.

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patchick

Isn't this the inevitable result of adding replay reviews, particularly after every TD? I assume the average game is a few minutes longer now.