Die hard NFL & Pats fan for a few decades now. I’ve always been of the mindset that more football is better than less, so I’ve always welcomed the Saturday games added to the schedule in late December.
But I have to say that today’s Black Friday game fell flat to me. So do the Sunday morning European games. For whatever reason that I haven’t been able to identify, I just don’t get up for them like I do the normal slate. It’s almost like I feel bad for watching them instead of doing normal shit. I’m good to watch the Thursday and Monday night games because the kids are asleep. Sunday afternoon is sort of accepted as time for football. But Friday afternoon and Sunday morning?? I get why the nfl is doing it. They’re wanting to expand viewership in Europe AND more importantly, dominate other time slots for ratings and future tv contracts. I get it but I also really find myself tuning out.
Am I alone on this island or does it feel like the NFL is quasi jumping the shark?
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The Sunday morning and Thursday games need to go. Sunday is too early (730am here) and Thursdays are bad for the teams, not to mention being on a paid service. Screw that.
That slide started for me when the Draft went to Prime Time. Weekend Draft Day parties were magnificent.
It’s almost as if the NFL is seeking another day of the week to hold primetime games in case MLS hooks enough young Americans raised on playing soccer into watching professional “futball” instead of football on Sundays.
Personally not a fan at all. Don’t even like TNF, might change my mind if they change it so only teams coming off a bye can play TNF but the NFL obviously won’t do that. It’s just clear the coaches don’t have enough time to game plan and the players don’t have enough time to recover, so the quality of the games suffer.
The international games annoy me because I’ve been burned more than once with a game time scratch and I don’t want to have to get up at 0630 to check my fantasy roster, but obviously tapping the international market is probably way more valuable than catering to fantasy football players on the west coast. I do wonder if the travel has an impact on the quality of the games, but I doubt it’s anywhere near the impact of the short rest of TNF.
Saturday games don’t bother me when college football isn’t going.
you lost me at pats fan. Google goodell bilicheck destroying tapes. You have 0 opinion in the NFL world if you supported anything to do with the pats.
F*ck non traditional scheduling.
Sunday and Monday.
No Thursday football or special Black Friday games.
If you live on the west coast, there’s always been Sunday morning games
Right, so now you have a game starting at like 630am… is that desirable?
I didn’t even watch that game yesterday between it being at an awful time and the teams playing good luck getting people to watch that.
I love football in more time slots. I say keep it the way it is. Nothing like having football on while sipping my coffee
I want Saturday games tbh
Those start up in December.
Being in Australia, I don’t really have much of a comment on the Europe games; outside of being committed to watching the Chiefs this year, I don’t want any of them in order to be up for the 1pm games.
But the Black Friday game this morning was nice. A bad game, but still having a game on a Saturday morning while nursing a hangover was welcomed. I’d put your feeling down to being new and different, it’s always going to be inherently disruptive at first. Even the existence of the game is tied to Amazon, the fact we’ll get it until 2033 is enough to make it feel like it has a natural place in the scheduling.
Gotta remember they expected a big game between a good Miami team and Rodgers led new york team. Game probably would’ve been significantly different.
Otherwise I don’t necessarily mind, especially at this point in the season with cfb winding down.
primetime games no longer feel special
More games and more spread out the better. I’m in a non-US time zone, so I’d happily just have two games a day, each day of the week. I don’t care what time they are because its all watched on delayed stream.
The more days we have games, the better (within reason).
But, the selection of primetime games this season has been terrible, and it’s abundantly clear the NFL does not give a flying fuck about the quality of product they provide to the very same people who make them money, they only care about ratings.
The Giants, Jets, Raiders, Steelers, etc., have zero business having as many primetime games as they do.