NFL Considering Eliminating Thursday Night Football?

BelichickFan · Nov 29, 2016

Having the teams coming off the bye is the obvious answer other than it would require byes every week again. Which is fine, it would just suck to have a Week 1 bye.

SalemPats · Nov 29, 2016

We should have opening night Thursday, Thanksgiving Thursday and maybe a couple of rivalry Thursday night games. Every week especially when they are bad games doesn't seem to work.

The Gr8est · Nov 29, 2016

Unless it directly affects the Pats I put the Monday and Thursday games completely out of my mind.

I know Philly played Green Bay last night, but I didn't watch, and don't even know who won yet.

I just don't care enough.

SalemPats · Nov 29, 2016

The Gr8est said:
Unless it directly affects the Pats I put the Monday and Thursday games completely out of my mind.

I know Philly played Green Bay last night, but I didn't watch, and don't even know who won yet.

I just don't care enough.

Packers won, vintage Rodgers performance. Wentz has great potential

Bobs My Uncle · Nov 29, 2016

The only Thursday NFL games I have ever watched are those played on Thanksgiving so eliminating TNF is fine by me.

Dagg · Nov 29, 2016

They usually stink and I rarely watch them so good ridance but I cant see NFL getting rid of them. I did notice this week was an interesting matchup since its a full week off for both participants since they both also played last Thursday on turkey day.

Cowboys vs Vikings.

RobertWeathers · Nov 29, 2016

Drop it.

cupofjoe1962 · Nov 29, 2016

I would much prefer a Saturday night game to a Thursday night game.

I also miss the Saturday games the last two weeks of the season.

I believe one of the biggest problems for the Sunday & Monday night games is they cater to the big markets.

The Bears are bad year after year & they get as many if not more prime time games than the Patriots.

Wax Frog · Nov 29, 2016

The Gr8est said:
Unless it directly affects the Pats I put the Monday and Thursday games completely out of my mind.

I know Philly played Green Bay last night, but I didn't watch, and don't even know who won yet.

I just don't care enough.

I suppose I should reframe my earlier statement - I'd love to see Saturday games again if by some miracle circumstances allowed me to regain my old level of interest.

Wheelman · Nov 29, 2016

TNF games means one less game on Sunday which gives me a better chance of getting the Pats on TV. So I hope they keep them despite the ratings decline. Heck I hope they over-saturate and play Saturday games every week. That'll further increase my chances of getting the Pats on TV.

QuantumMechanic · Nov 29, 2016

mgcolby said:
High School football. That would be a ratings disaster along with a PR disaster. Which is why they left Friday alone in the first place.

Probably illegal, anyways. From the Wikipedia entry on the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961:

It also, in effect, protects high school football and college football game attendance by blacking out pro football games locally on Friday evenings and Saturdays during those sports' regular seasons; these measures effectively outlawed the broadcasting (and, in practice, the playing) of NFL games on those days, since virtually all of the country is within 75 miles of at least one high school game on every Friday night in September and October.

mosslost · Nov 29, 2016

BobDigital said:
Here is how the NFL should do Thursday night football

#1 Opening year Thursday game is fine
#2 Having it only for teams who are coming off a bye week

So you have it week 1. Then it comes back for weeks 5-14 and not every team gets one which is fine. If you want every team to get one have a few double header Thursday night games when you have 4 teams coming off a bye. Why is that so hard?

Not only will this make it safe but also it will make the games better. Also if it is not every week it makes it a little more special when they do it.

>>#2 Having it only for teams who are coming off a bye week

This can't work

neuronet · Nov 29, 2016

Do it. Pull the trigger. It is bad for the players, oversaturates the market.

If they can pull off the bye week solution, fine. Limited Thursday nights for bye week in the middle of the season.

deroc5050 · Nov 29, 2016

I would say drop Thursday night Football. If not then play on thanksgiving and on if they keep it. Maybe play thursday night football weeks 11-16. That's it 5 weeks.

luuked · Nov 29, 2016

QuantumMechanic said:
Probably illegal, anyways. From the Wikipedia entry on the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961:

Another reason that the league is pushing for some international teams. No problem with that 75 mile radius in Canada, Mexico or Europe..

That being said, while I kinda get the Highschool/Friday prohibition I don't see any reason in 2016 that college games should have the same protection. They wouldn't suffer at all from it.

XLIX · Nov 29, 2016

luuked said:
Another reason that the league is pushing for some international teams. No problem with that 75 mile radius in Canada, Mexico or Europe..

That being said, while I kinda get the Highschool/Friday prohibition I don't see any reason in 2016 that college games should have the same protection. They wouldn't suffer at all from it.

The colleges wouldn't suffer, but the league might. They'd be stupid to take on college football on Saturdays.

dalero · Nov 30, 2016

deroc5050 said:
I would say drop Thursday night Football. If not then play on thanksgiving and on if they keep it. Maybe play thursday night football weeks 11-16. That's it 5 weeks.

By week 10 the players are beat to ****. None of them should be expected to play with just 3 days to prepare.

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