I don’t like the Thursday games. I spend pretty much every waking moment Sunday in front of the TV. Again Monday night. It probably is at least reasonably fair that my family would like me spend some time with them

I understand it’s a financial boon, but I don’t like it from a purely competitive standpoint.

Still if the players are adamant about the safety issue, they’d have to be willing to have lower salaries due the drop in revenue.

Of the top of my head, perhaps the solution is to schedule as many of these Thursday night games AFTER the bye in teams schedules. That way the team would have a full 11 days off before the game and another ten games afterwards. It wouldn’t be easy, and they might not be able to do a full 16 game schedule, but if they could get 10 in, it would be a good compromise

That prolly dates me.

We apparently don’t get NFLN here in the BlueGrass on Time/Warner. At least I don’t see it on the schedule.

The good thing about having a lot of games to choose from is you don’t have to watch the bad games.

Think of how many hours of TV an average American watches in a week and how many different commercials are seen. So many that our short attention spans (thanks to the Internet) can barely remember what commercial came on last break.

For an advertiser to make something that evokes any kind of strong attention one way or the other is a win for them. Sure go ahead and rip on the blue suite guy but realize all you are doing is bringing more attention to it while the NFL laughs their way to the bank.

Open your eyes and take a real look at the world around you because things aren’t always what they seem.

Oh, and the blue suit dude is horrible.

If it weren’t for the potential lawsuits Goodell and the owners would let them play on a field of broken glass and use sledgehammers and chainsaws for blocking and tackling purposes.

And when the league has to defend itself in court James Harrison and Sean Payton are going to be Exhibits A and B.

So because the league wants its cable network on every cable carrier’s basic package, they feel justifiied in making every team play at least one short week game, and the consequences be damned.

How many key players are going to miss games this year because they weren’t fully healed from the previous week’s matchup (just three days rest instead of six)? How many will play before they’re ready and end up getting hurt worse?

If the NFL wants its network to have more exposure, they should schedule the games for Saturday every week. But Thursday is too soon, especially when the justification for doing so is that of trying to pump up a cable ‘network’ that wastes most of the year televising NFL Access reruns. Using these Thursday night games to try to justify the network’s existence is lame.

The Raiders have to travel to Miami from Oakland, on a short week, for an early game.

That’s nuts.

Oakland had a Monday night game at home and plays Miami on Sunday at 1:00. That isn’t what this article is about at all.

Tuesday games are happening this year with college games. My school (UL Ragin Cajuns) are playing two games on Tuesday this season (Ark St. and N. Tx State)….BUT, they obviously are not playing the weekend before and we don’t play the following weekend. So over the course of 21 days, they will play 2 games with 10-11 days rest. I’m not sure, but would be willing to bet all Tuesday games are following this schedule. We need the TV exposure (ESPN 2) and even though we are giving up a chance to tailgate properly, we are looking forward to both games. The other downside is it significantly lengthens the season!

Yikes

It’s getting to be like ESPN college football with games every night of the week this season except on a Tuesday. The league opened on a Wednesday to accommodate Obama, and by the time the play-offs hit, we will have NFL games with brunch, lunch, supper, dinner and late night snacks.

Bordering on over saturation, especially when some of it is not very good.

That’s nuts.