New NFL TV Proposal...

[Italian Stallion]

I was watching ESPNNews and they had said that the NFL badly wants to alter the way games are played throught the 16 game schedule...Here are some of the proposals...Tell me what you think....

1. Push the 1pm and 4pm kickoffs AHEAD one hour

2. Make it possible to have any network broadcast a same confrence game....(CBS could have the packers v bucs, FOX could have Bills v Pats)

3. Push the start of the season ahead 1-2 weeks.

4. Switch the Monday night game to Thursday night.

5. Add another network to broadcast games on sunday...like NBC or ESPN

6. Add another primetime game on sunday night


All of these seem pretty interesting, with the monday night to thursday proposal the one I like best....It would prevent declining ratings for a late night game at the begining of a workweek, and instead act as a lead into sundays games...

[The Spaz]

Boo!changes

[lordofgun]

1. Push the 1pm and 4pm kickoffs BACK one hour

>>>>I like it. More time to get home from church.

2. Make it possible to have any network broadcast a same confrence game....(CBS could have the packers v bucs, FOX could have Bills v Pats)

>>>>Don't really care.

3. Push the start of the season back 1-2 weeks.

>>>>Why??

4. Switch the Monday night game to Thursday night.

>>>>NO. MNF makes mondays. Mondays suck in the offseason. Plus thursday night games are annoying for fantasy players.

5. Add another network to broadcast games on sunday...like NBC or ESPN

>>>>I bet they try to stick a game on the NFL network to force cable companies to carry it.

6. Add another primetime game on sunday night

>>>>I guess.

[Patrick76777]

Re: New NFL TV Proposal...

1. Push the 1pm and 4pm kickoffs BACK one hour

- don't love it! When I was younger and slept till noon, I would have loved it, but now with Kids I’m up at the crack of dawn and 1:00 takes forever to come around! I’d rather have Noon!

2. Make it possible to have any network broadcast a same confrence game....(CBS could have the packers v bucs, FOX could have Bills v Pats)

- Fine by me, we'd get better games

3. Push the start of the season back 1-2 weeks.

-Also fine by me, I like the cold December games and it's way hot for some of those September games. I hate spending the whole day in the house on Sept 7 watching football when it's 68 degrees out.

4. Switch the Monday night game to Thursday night.

-Don't like it at all! Now if they wanted to do a Monday and Thursday night game we can talk! Monday night football gives me something to look forward to in football season.

5. Add another network to broadcast games on sunday...like NBC or ESPN

-LOVE IT! MORE GAMES!

6. Add another primetime game on sunday night

-Do the Thrusday night thing! Why have 2 games on Sunday night if we can only watch one!

[Patrick76777]

Originally posted by lordofgun


4. Switch the Monday night game to Thursday night.

>>>>NO. MNF makes mondays. Mondays suck in the offseason. Plus thursday night games are annoying for fantasy players.

Here here!

[The Natrix]

I like 2 and 5 a lot. I also like 6. 2 would make it more likey that I would get the Bills even if Jets and Giants are both on. Same thing with 5. Three stations = better chance of getting the Bills consistently. 6 would increase the chance that our fellow fans in California, etc. could see another game or two from home.

I HATE 4! Thursady night is a bar night, better TV night. There is nothing better to do on Monday nights. Football brightens up the Monday blues.

Not big on 3. Less freezing cold games to benefit Da Billz. Watching the Pats-Raiders and Bills-Dolphins in the snow was classic.

Wait, now that I think about it I don't like 1 either. It's a three hour drive to the Ralph for me. If I want to get some decent tailgaiting in before a noon game, I have to wake up at like 5 am.

[Patrick76777]

By pushing back, I think they mean later!

So it would be 2:00 and 5:00 starts and the season would start in mid to late September!

[The Natrix]

Originally posted by Patrick76777
By pushing back, I think they mean later!

So it would be 2:00 and 5:00 starts and the season would start in mid to late September!

So it is kind of like back to the future?

[The Natrix]

Originally posted by Patrick76777
By pushing back, I think they mean later!

So it would be 2:00 and 5:00 starts and the season would start in mid to late September!

2:00pm starts means at least another three beers in the system

[Throne Logic]

1. Push the 1pm and 4pm kickoffs BACK one hour

That's fine, it just makes football come sooner on Sunday.


2. Make it possible to have any network broadcast a same confrence game....(CBS could have the packers v bucs, FOX could have Bills v Pats)

Sure, why not. It would allow the more interesting division rival games to be broadcast in favor of Arizona at Oakland.


3. Push the start of the season back 1-2 weeks.

Why? I don't see why this would help anything. It would just mean more cold games.


4. Switch the Monday night game to Thursday night.

Uhg. it used to be easy to watch games. This would make it almost like trying to follow NCAA BB with games all over the place. I like Sundays with a single game on Monday. If the NFL is on 4 days a week, the divorce rate will increase dramatically over the next few years.


5. Add another network to broadcast games on sunday...like NBC or ESPN

Sure, I'm outside of this one, 'cuz I've got D-TV.


6. Add another primetime game on sunday night

I assume the better of the two would be broadcast. But this threatens to screw with my D-TV package. They don't broadcast Sunday & Monday night. If Buffalo gets one of those non-broadcast games, I'm going to be pissed. If they allow D-TV to have the non-broadcast game, then I'd go for it. Same argement for the dual Monday night games idea.

[Aero II]

If they want to take away some of the early games and play them in prime time, I wouldn't mind that. I hated having to keep track of 9 1:00 games then only having 3 4:00 games to choose from.

I could give a crap about Seattle V Arizona in week 3. Give us more choices.

[Ebenezer]

1. Push the 1pm and 4pm kickoffs BACK one hour

that's fine.

2. Make it possible to have any network broadcast a same confrence game....(CBS could have the packers v bucs, FOX could have Bills v Pats)

No.

3. Push the start of the season back 1-2 weeks.

No.

4. Switch the Monday night game to Thursday night.

Don't switch...add a Friday night game.

5. Add another network to broadcast games on sunday...like NBC or ESPN

Fine.

6. Add another primetime game on sunday night

Not if they add a Thursday or Friday game

[The Natrix]

Originally posted by Throne Logic
1. Push the 1pm and 4pm kickoffs BACK one hour

That's fine, it just makes football come sooner on Sunday.

saying they will "push it back" is terrible wording. It can be taken either way.

[Jeff1220]

They want to push it to Thursday to stick it to NBC. An NFL game on one of the other networks would kill their "Thurdays, we're the king" programming. Monday night would become the new "Must See Blah Blah Blah" schedule and Thursday would be about football.

[Mr. Miyagi]

Originally posted by Jeff1220
They want to push it to Thursday to stick it to NBC. An NFL game on one of the other networks would kill their "Thurdays, we're the king" programming. Monday night would become the new "Must See Blah Blah Blah" schedule and Thursday would be about football.

Friends is over after this season anyway, so next fall NBC Thursday will have nothing good but ER on.