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They get two this year. And when they do it's a big party, the networks love the raucous fans, show plenty crowd shots and then the tv and league crews all enjoy coming down here for the the local culture. NO used to get prime time games even when they were lousy.
http://espn.go.com/blog/seattle-seahawks/post/_/id/5641/seattle-seahawks-schedule-analysis
Id hate to have the nightmare of making these schedules for any of the major pro sports leagues.
The first NFL game is early September. It's still the regular season for baseball then - there just happened to be an Orioles homestand during football's opening week and the stadiums were too close to one another (shared a parking lot I beleive). Apparently the Mariners are away on September 4th or the Stadiums are far enough apart.
The stadiums are across the street from each other.
Whenever I see this I think that whatever follows is bound to be worthless. Its like a license to pass wild speculation off as somehow believable. One might think that if PFT was to repeatedly do this that eventually they would lose credibility. Quite the opposite. They've hit paydirt just enough that people seem to ignore the wild speculation when its off base.
The 6 games in 35 days is deceiving. If a team plays 6 straight Sundays, which every team does every season, that's 6 games in 40 days .So week 10, they play Mon. Weeks 11-14 are all Sundays, and week 15 is a Thurs. Wah.
Here is a good article on how they do it:
Kiss the ringSabertooth said:Raiderfan32904 said:Sabertooth said:
Which one?Kiss the ringSabertooth said:Raiderfan32904 said:Sabertooth said:
I see what you mean, maybe it doesn't amount to much with a bunch of Sunday games with a road TNF @SF game squeezed in. I don't think I'd say "nightmarish" but it poses some challenges considering the average win totals for these opponents last year must be around the 11 win range:LarryAllen said:
I agree, that this likely wasn't done "on purpose" for sinister reasons.
Seattle playing their prime time games on the road is a good thing in some cases. During the Holmgren years the running narrative was that they struggled playing early games on the east coast. The prime time slot for a road game means it won't be occurring at what we perceive to be 10AM here on the west coast. Their game at Washington on Oct. 6th falls into this category, but because its been moved to prime time they will get to avoid that early morning slot.
