What do You make of the NFL trying to add more Thursday Games?

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What law? How could there be an actual law governing such a thing?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Broadcasting_Act_of_1961



The Friday-Saturday restriction was the direct result of lobbying from the NCAA. A House committee noted in its report on the SBA, “[NCAA representatives] are convinced that uncontrolled televising of professional football games could be ruinous to what is known as in-person attendance at college games. It is their position that professional football should not be granted exemption from the antitrust laws for package television contracts at the expense of intercollegiate football.”

its why there are no saturday games till the nfl playoffs begin
 

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I hate one Thursday night football game. Not everybody has nfl network. Plus if the cowboys lose on Thursday night that's a long ass time of pissed off emotions until the next game.
 

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i dont mind it at all

i have the nfl network but that is bs for people that dont

if they do this they should have one on espn and one on the network



also mr roger is a hypocritical fakkit
 

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I hate one Thursday night football game. Not everybody has nfl network. Plus if the cowboys lose on Thursday night that's a long ass time of pissed off emotions until the next game.

Dallas is exempt from these games since they play on thanksgiving already
 

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We wouldn't have all these Thursday games. If teams wasn't crying about the Cowboys and Lions having an advantage playing on Thanksgiving Thursday. The NFL made it that majority of the teams get a chance to play on Thursday and have a 10 days week before there next game. To even out the Cowboys/Lions Thanksgiving Thursday advantage.


Yes, this is 1 of 2 reasons why the NFL start having a game on every Thursday during the season. 2 reason is they make more TV money of course.
 

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have a a 25 game season, and play them shyts every night. what do i give a fukk :smugdraper:
 

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Over saturating the market,Sundays are speical and the comissh is taken that away

The Thursday product is horrible because teams dont have a whole week to practice injuries dont heal etc so they want to add another one?

Comisisoner is making money for the sport but ruining the product for the hardcore fans

Commissioners in any sport don't give a damn about the hardcore fan. They're hardcore fans for a reason.
 

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So I take it yall won't be watching?
I'm actually one of the few who hates thursday night football and knows the only way for me to show that is by not watching, so other than the niners match up, I don't watch it

I'm not a fan of the double headers idea, player safety, I enjoy the beauty of Sunday being NFL day, and timing - especially on the west coast, we get screwed on MNF and TNF already, a lot of working folks aren't out the office at 5/5:30 and we're definitely not out of traffic or the gym and back home for that shyt, now you want games to start at 5/6 EST/2/3 PST while the second game will end at 1am in the east? That's not going to win you ratings either
 
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Commissioners in any sport don't give a damn about the hardcore fan. They're hardcore fans for a reason.

But No sport is currently falling from grace from a ON FIELD product standpoint then football though it was perfect and being fukked with

Rule changes to make it arena football and leave no traces of defense left in the sport,gonna add more playoff teams to hurt its regular season,constant comercials to fukk the flow up etc

Say what you want about Selig hes awful but he hasnt hurt the game on the field,hes added a wild card but it stil has the least amount of teams that make the playoffs out of any sport so he hasnt killed the regular season or playoffs, talent is at an all time high and you still have tons of ptichers duels that the hardcore fans love,the product hasnt been fukked with on the field like the nfl
 
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SF, SEA, AZ, SD, OAK, & possibly DEN at home are there only options for a second game every year. The Raiders/Chargers Sunday night 10:30 EST game got a 2.5 mil viewers compared to the 8.1 mil for Thursday night games on NFLN. This is one of the stupidest ideas you could even ponder
 
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