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Thoughts OnThe Current NFL Weekly Game Schedule - Thur - Sun - Sun Night - Monday Games? (1 Viewer)

Thoughts OnThe Current NFL Weekly Game Schedule - Thur - Sun - Sun Night - Monday Games?

  • Love it

    Votes: 32 18.6%

  • Like it

    Votes: 30 17.4%

  • On the fence

    Votes: 9 5.2%

  • Don't really like it

    Votes: 62 36.0%

  • Hate it (if this is you, please comment what you hate)

    Votes: 39 22.7%
  • Total voters
    172
Do not like the Thursday night games.   I did like MNF when it was the marquee matchups.  I'd like to see them eliminate Thursday and Sunday Night games and make MNF the "flexed" game (I.E. the marquee matchup of the week)

 
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Hot Sauce Guy said:
I must be older than you because we never had Saturday night football when I was young. 

It was considered taboo because that was college football day. 

Not sure what changed that but it’s only been around since 2006. 

so yeah - if you can’t remember past 12 years ago you either smoke too much hippy lettuce, or you’re not old. lol
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Oh, I am plenty old and don't do any hippy lettuce so I know that it wasn't that way all the time but it seems like it has been around for longer than 2006 (per your research)...hahahah

 
Used to watch Thursday, Sunday Night and Monday night all the time. Now I don't tune in unless it's the Eagles. Sunday games I might have on in the background if it's not Eagles. Football is losing guys like me. 

 
nittanylion said:
Who comes up with this, and by what twisted logic does it make any sense at all?

Wouldn't it make sense to just have every Team play from Weeks 1-4, run the bye's through Weeks 5-12, 4 Teams/week, and have ever Team play Weeks 13-17?

I don't get it. I don't get it at all.
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Most teams prefer having their bye later in the season, so it makes sense to have more teams off in weeks 7-11 than in weeks 4-6.  No idea why you think it would make more sense to move some of those up to an earlier week.  

 
wow...pretty surprised by the responses here on a fantasy football message board....

one thing people really aren't factoring in to their comments is the difficulty and what it takes into putting an NFL schedule together....let alone trying to figure out in April what will be a "marquee" match up in November....

many have said...only play on Thursdays if "you are coming off of a bye"......impossible..... if you play Thursday night football every week like they do now....so please stop saying that...only way that could maybe happen is if they extended the season and added more bye weeks to each teams schedule (it might even have to be more than 2)....

I like that the NFL can flex a few games each year.....my Chiefs have already benefited from that (they will probably be in Primetime so much moving forward with Mahomes, I may not need the Ticket)....

you really can only flex a game within the same day....you can't move a game from Sunday to Monday/Thursday.....these games are too much of an EVENT....people plan vactaions around what day games are played on....so your Monday night schedule or your Thursday night schedule is never going to change once the schedule comes out....(unless a disaster or something)...so don't ask for it....they decide those in April and they will not change...they may switch some from Sunday to Saturday, etc, now...but not the Thursday/Monday games...

schedule makers also have to factor in other major events going on in some stadiums on certain days.....

the NFL doesn't care how Thursday games affect your fantasy football league or your WDIS issues.....get over it

the question wasn't really about overseas games....but yeah I don't like em...

the "family time" thing is not really an issue....do what is important to you...

I can see how some say the quality isn't that great on Thursday.....but there have also been some great games....it's just luck of the draw....deal with it...

I LOVE Sunday Night games....IMO that has replaced Monday night for the "better" game of the week....so much so the NFL flex's this game as the season moves on ....which is a great addition.....and again, it's not as big of a deal moving a game back a few hours as it is changing days....

I love NFL football....I like maybe having another night to watch it (or not).....

 
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menobrown said:
I don't live in world that requires me to spend 3.5 hours watching a game but then I don't watch live TV either very often. I record almost every single prime time game and watch it at my own leisure on my own time but I understand some people can't fathom not watching a sporting event live. Not knocking that,  but if there is just one game on I'd rather record and watch then watch live.

Which kind of leads me to something else and it's really the other part of this equation. How do you watch your football?

If you watch live TV and can't fathom watching a recording I can see why some might not like the extra time commitment during school/work week. I'd guess those people who hate TNF are not people who often record games for the most part.

Next thing is do you watch actual games during Sunday afternoons or do you watch the Red Zone? If you are someone who likes to watch actual games spreading them out is great as it allows you to devote your eyeballs and attention to more games.  But if you are a Red Zone watcher it not only means nothing to have the product spread out but it slightly reduces the amount of highlights and Red Zone coverage.

I feel pretty sure if you watch live vs record, tend to watch Red Zone vs trying to view whole games, that it skews how people view TNF a great deal.
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I would guess that the percentage of football fans who record live games and watch them later is so small that it's not even worth discussing.  Surely you understand that your viewing habits are the anomaly here (I say that as someone who also watches most games after the fact on GamePass).  

 
Gally said:
Oh, I am plenty old and don't do any hippy lettuce so I know that it wasn't that way all the time but it seems like it has been around for longer than 2006 (per your research)...hahahah
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 Yeah, the hippy lettuce doesn’t really affect your long-term memory either… It more affects short-ter, wait, what was I talking about again? :unsure:

 
Definitely against the current format due to the Thursday night games.  The player safety issue that the NFL spouts is all BS imo simply because of this.  There's no way NFL players are properly rested & recovered after just 3 days.  And the farther into the season we progress it just worsens for these guys as they get more and more dinged up. The supposed  '"plus" of having a 'mini bye' after the Thursday games doesn't outway the increased risks.  It's all about the prime time revenue; and the teams, players, and fans know this. 

  Now the traditional Thanksgiving games are another story, as I believe the original reason behind them wasn't purely driven by the dollar sign.  I believe an argument for the Thursday night games has been that now everyone is in the same boat as to having one short week & mini-bye, etc.  But money is the driving force and the NFL is disingenuos about the reason.

 
Maggot Brain said:
  Now the traditional Thanksgiving games are another story, as I believe the original reason behind them wasn't purely driven by the dollar sign.  I believe an argument for the Thursday night games has been that now everyone is in the same boat as to having one short week & mini-bye, etc.  But money is the driving force and the NFL is disingenuos about the reason.
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IMHO, all NFL games should be limited to Saturday, Sunday or Monday.  But I'm probably in the minority in this case.  And I suspect that due to the history and tradition of the Thanksgiving Day slate of games in Detroit and Dallas, neither of those owners/franchises would ever give them up.  

 
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63% of votes so far don't like the current setup. And this is from fantasy fans - who really LOVE football.

We have to admit, Thursday night football really messes up the schedule. It's such an isolated game - there are 3 days until we watch football again when it ends.

Nearly every other major football league I can think of (EPL, NRL, AFL) plays Friday night games. I know the NFL has a bugaboo about HS football, but let's face it, those folks are BIG fans. They would adapt.

Friday night football makes sense on so many levels - it's a night out for most people, we could all watch on tv, especially in bars, the game becomes not nearly so isolated, it's much better for the fantasy package (which is becoming huge for the nfl), it's better for the players and coaches - we could go on and on.

Git 'er done! 

 
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Truebluey said:
Friday night football makes sense on so many levels - it's a night out for most people, we could all watch on tv, especially in bars, the game becomes not nearly so isolated, it's much better for the fantasy package (which is becoming huge for the nfl), it's better for the players and coaches - we could go on and on.

Git 'er done! 
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There are laws in place that prevent the NFL from playing on Friday due to high school football. If these laws were not there, there’s no doubt that there would be games on Friday. 

 
I am on the fence about Thursday games.  The selfish part of me does like another night of football though, and I do enjoy Thurs/Mon night games when its the only thing on that day and something to look forward to that night.  Agree it's not always the best FB though and it gives a lot of advantages/disadvantages to certain teams the next week.

The one thing I'd like to see is maybe 1 morning game be moved to the afternoon. During bye weeks there's often only 2 or 3 afternoon games and I wish there was more.  I know the time zone thing, but I think you could push it a bit... sometimes eastern time zone games run at the later time anyways. 

 
Truebluey said:
Friday night football makes sense on so many levels - it's a night out for most people, we could all watch on tv, especially in bars, the game becomes not nearly so isolated, it's much better for the fantasy package (which is becoming huge for the nfl), it's better for the players and coaches - we could go on and on.

Git 'er done! 
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Would hate Friday games.  People have other plans Friday nights, lots of people work Friday nights who don't do the M-F 9-5 thing.  I think viewership would be bigger thursday nights vs friday nights. 

 
Deamon said:
I am on the fence about Thursday games.  The selfish part of me does like another night of football though, and I do enjoy Thurs/Mon night games when its the only thing on that day and something to look forward to that night.
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I agree with this part - I’m a little like Arthur Dent in that i never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Having football on them isn’t the worst thing. 

But in terms of quality of product increased risk of injury and frequent lack of *marquee*  matchups, there’s room for improvement.

thats why I voted in the middle, despite overall not really liking them. 

 
I don't mind games on Thursday. Except when one of my opponents players goes off on Thursday night making my teams chances for the week slim and none before the wkend even starts.

Then I think Thurs night football is the worst idea ever

 
Joe Bryant said:
No laws. I could be wrong but I think it's more an unwritten thing the NFL won't compete with high school football on Friday nights. 
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Thanks Joe. An official law would surprise me.

Personally I don't see the "competition" with HS football. It's not like playing ONE game a week stops any HS game from being played. Or well attended.

 
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Maybe I am just getting old, but I am not a huge fan of the night games. With the uptick in penalties, reviews, stoppage for injuries, pass happy shootouts, and longer and longer games, I don’t have it in me to stay up late when no matter what the next day is a work day. I’d advocate for starting the night games at 7:00, but that would trample on the end of 4:00 games on Sunday. 

 
Anarchy99 said:
Maybe I am just getting old, but I am not a huge fan of the night games. With the uptick in penalties, reviews, stoppage for injuries, pass happy shootouts, and longer and longer games, I don’t have it in me to stay up late when no matter what the next day is a work day. I’d advocate for starting the night games at 7:00, but that would trample on the end of 4:00 games on Sunday. 
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I guess it's hard for me to get all freaked about about game times......we have it damn near perfect in CO

11:00 first set of games

2:00 second set of games

6:30 night games (Thursday/Sun/Monday)

plenty of time to get ready (pregame) Sunday morning before first set.....afternoon snacks ready for 2:00.....little break before the night game to do some dinner and watch NBC pregame...in bed in plenty of time...

can't imagine a two hour swing either way so I kind of feel for you east and west coasters....although it seems like whole country is based around EST so I'll take this little bit of awesomeness in CO...

 
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mchmura89 said:
Rove! said:
Cancel Thursday and give me a Sunday AM game...
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I thought I wanted this, until I was in Vegas last weekend and was still sleeping when Gordon was declared out and the game started...
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Making me think:

I played in a league until 2001 in which our FFB starting lineups were due by midnight on Saturday. Last-minute scratch? Tough noogies -- you took the zero points. But it never seemed like a problem. Seems like back then, there was A LOT less of that last-minute real-life-NFL lineup shuffling going on right before games.

 
Stinkin Ref said:
I guess it's hard for me to get all freaked about about game times......we have it damn near perfect in CO

11:00 first set of games

2:00 second set of games

6:30 night games (Thursday/Sun/Monday)

plenty of time to get ready (pregame) Sunday morning before first set.....afternoon snacks ready for 2:00.....little break before the night game to do some dinner and watch NBC pregame...in bed in plenty of time...

can't imagine a two hour swing either way so I kind of feel for you east and west coasters....although it seems like whole country is based around EST so I'll take this little bit of awesomeness in CO...
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Yep I'm in this timezone too.  It's great.  Still surprises me that Monday nighters don't start until 830pm out east.  I would also HATE to have to wait until 1pm for early game kickoffs. 

 
Doug B said:
Making me think:

I played in a league until 2001 in which our FFB starting lineups were due by midnight on Saturday. Last-minute scratch? Tough noogies -- you took the zero points. But it never seemed like a problem. Seems like back then, there was A LOT less of that last-minute real-life-NFL lineup shuffling going on right before games.
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I remember those too. 

It's something we deal with most every week as we do the Sunday Update page with all the inactives. I call it a good week when we don't get any news Sunday morning that causes any shuffle to the projections. Those are great. But they get tougher each week as guys get more injured. Basically, it's the Game Time Decisions that cause all the heartache. 

 
Stinkin Ref said:
I guess it's hard for me to get all freaked about about game times......we have it damn near perfect in CO

11:00 first set of games

2:00 second set of games

6:30 night games (Thursday/Sun/Monday)

plenty of time to get ready (pregame) Sunday morning before first set.....afternoon snacks ready for 2:00.....little break before the night game to do some dinner and watch NBC pregame...in bed in plenty of time...

can't imagine a two hour swing either way so I kind of feel for you east and west coasters....although it seems like whole country is based around EST so I'll take this little bit of awesomeness in CO...
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Being outside Boston, the baseball playoffs have been almost impossible to stay up and watch. The games have started at 8:15 or 8:45 and run 4 or 5 hours with a dozen pitching changes. Baseball games literally take twice as long as they used to. 

 
Joe Bryant said:
Basically, it's the Game Time Decisions that cause all the heartache. 
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Game Time Decisions, specifically, seemed to be a lot less frequent, say, during the 1980s & 90s. Might just be selective memory, but the impression is strong.

Did coaches like Bill Belichick (or others?) just kind of start gaming the GTD thing in the early-2000s ... and other coaches have since followed suit in a copycat league? I'd bet that a lot of today's GTD guys were simply marked 'Doubtful' on the 1990s-style NFL injury reports. I remember having a personal rule when having to set lineups on Saturday nights -- I'd play 'Questionable' guys, but bench 'Doubtful' ones.

 
Love it, but hate how the same teams are always on the NEXT week.

I'm fine with seeing the same teams spread out.

Pats MNF 8 - SNF week 9

Cowboys MNF week 9,  SNF week 10

49ERS - TNF week 9, MNF week 10

Steelers - TNF week 10, SNF week 11

@Joe Bryant

Every single week.

 
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Never liked the London Sun AM games and now don't like the Thursday night game.  The rest are fine.  

 
Gottabesweet said:
Love it, but hate how the same teams are always on the NEXT week.

I'm fine with seeing the same teams spread out.

Pats MNF 8 - SNF week 9

Cowboys MNF week 9,  SNF week 10

49ERS - TNF week 9, MNF week 10

 Steelers - TNF week 10, SNF week 11

@Joe Bryant

Every single week.
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On the topic of the 49ers, I've always found the maze of NFL TV regulations for shared media markets to be oddly fascinating.  The 49ers and Raiders are each required to play at least 1 late game per year in order to make the NFL schedule work, due to the NFL not scheduling 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT home starts for west coast teams.  Must be quite the jigsaw puzzle to be the NFL schedule maker.  The Chargers and Rams now have the same requirements too.

Giants and Jets have similar requirements, but scheduling is less of a headache since they are on the east coast.  That's why often-times one of the two teams will play a 4 PM ET game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_on_television#Shared_media_markets

 
Anarchy99 said:
Being outside Boston, the baseball playoffs have been almost impossible to stay up and watch. The games have started at 8:15 or 8:45 and run 4 or 5 hours with a dozen pitching changes. Baseball games literally take twice as long as they used to. 
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[hijack]

Game 1 of this year's ALCS and NLCS both lasted 4 hours and 3 minutes.

The highest-scoring MLB game of the modern era was Phillies 23, Cubs 22, in May 1979. Ten innings, 45 runs, 50 hits, ten pitching changes, and the game took ... 4:03. 

It's a scourge and has to be stopped.

[/hijack]

 
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