NFL = Prime Time Losers?

[brdmaverick]

The NFL is a tough luck loser in trying to get competitive games on in primetime.

When looking at the Thursday, Sunday, and Monday night games over the past three weeks (which is 8 games altogether b/c tonight's Monday Night game has yet to be played), 7 of the 8 have had meaningless fourth quarters.

Only the Bears 27-19 victory over the Jets in week 3 was the only single digit point differential over the past few weeks. In fact, for these 8 games the average margin of victory is 25.6 points. Here are the games.........


WEEK 3
THURS: Falcons over Bucs, 56-14
SUN: Steelers over Panthers, 37-19
MON: Bears over Jets, 27-19

WEEK 4
THURS: Giants over Redskins, 45-14
SUN: Cowboys over Saints, 38-17
MON: Chiefs over Pats, 41-14

Week 5
THURS: Packers over Vikes, 42-10
SUN: Pats over Bengals: 43-17
MON: ????????

 

[Marinlik]

They can't be too happy with the prime time games so far. Especially not CBS who has thrown big bucks at thursday night football this year. Both to get the games and for marketing. Their games have really sucked this year. Then they had that whole Adrian Peterson/Rihanna theme song stuff.


Saw someone on Twitter saying something like: "The primetime bookers really missed out on the Jets vs Chargers game"