Case in point: Week 14
Thursday NFL Net game is Houston/Jacksonville. Not even people in Houston and Jacksonville care to watch this.
Flex Indy/Cincin (division leaders, playoff teams) or even Miami/Pitts. or Oak./ NY Jets (all fighting for last Wild Card)
Hell, give Carolina/New Orleans a bigger audience. Right now, the areas of Boston, New York, Phila., Washington, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore wont see this game because its regional. All those cities get to see shytty Houston/ Jacksonville though. We knew this game was worthless 5 weeks ago.
Here's the problem you have.
Like @
Absolut said, it's a logistical nightmare.
Try being the guy that tells the Jets /Raiders or Dolphins /Steelers, hey, remember that week you guys thought you were gonna have? Well fukk that, you got 3 days of rest.
Matter of fact, try being the guy that has a ticket to that game on Sunday only to find out that the game got pushed back a day or it got moved up 3 days. Given in some spots how tough it is to make the necessary ticket sales to avoid a blackout, you may wind up having single game buyers not want those tickets on account of having a ticket you might not even use.
The only thing you can really do is try to schedule better games, but also consider this. There's a limit to how many national games you can get, so sometimes bad teams get scheduled nationally because 1) they might wind up good and b) it keeps the flex options open for other teams.
Long story short, the NFL does its best to get you the games you want, for everything else they can't get you, get the Sunday Ticket.
CBS crew