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I tend to agree, but it would be interesting to see if they worked it where teams that were on a bye the previous week played on Thursday (at least during the portion of the season that involves byes).
Likely they split 8/8 between NFLN and whomever ponie$ up for the other eight games - they NEED to sell half to get the extra income for this.......someone - not sure who read a lot of reports today - suggested that instead of first half/second half split they alternate which would like produce more demand for NLFN from those who don't have it.
Thursday is kind of the start of the weekend; so really looking forward to this. Get the kids in bed, place a bet on the game, watch my fantasy players, throw a few drinks back....even if the games aren't all stellar, I'm all for expanding the fun.
They used to have just Monday nights and someone said they were not a fan of moving it to Sunday nights.I think it's great to have Thursday Night games. It makes the game even bigger, if that's possible. Let's end this lockout stuff and move on with this season.'Zimm said:
Baseball and NBA games are not urgent watch games since each team plays 162 and 82 games, respectively. Individually, each game's impact to the post season implications is pretty insignificant. With only 16 games per team, each individual game in the NFL is much more significant. This is why I will go out of my way to watch every regular season game for a team I follow in the NFL, but won't turn on an NBA game until March.'dino259 said:
You don't have to watch the Thursday Night game - just prentend it's one of the Sunday games that wouldn't be televised in your area. I don't really get the downside as long as the NFL schedules the bye weeks appropriately for teams playing on Thursday.
true and i probably won't. unless it's a good matchup. however, it makes it a pain for setting fantasy football lineups with flex options, etc.
No offense but this would hurt you guys more than help. The one thing you guys get wrong is constantly delivering things late.
I think it's a combination of the two. Factually, the product may not be "diluted" if no additional games are added but I am not a fan of distributing the product more evenly throughout the week. The NFL has a tight, consistent and "concentrated" weekly cycle with the Sunday, Monday and occasional "special" Thursday. With this move, it's another step towards "football all week" and if only in perception, the product is somewhat diluted.
