riboflav said:God, these Thursday games suck. I know Friday night is a bad night for tv but I would think the NFL would still draw big numbers and giving everyone one more day might improve the product on the field.
JohnnyTheBone said:
That's a good point. It might have something to do with not disturbing the tradition of Friday night high school games in the football states.
How hard would it be to delay the start of TNF until after byes start and then the teams coming off a bye can meet up for TNF?
Currently the NFL has 17 weeks (plus playoffs) of dominating ad revenue and ratings. Are you suggesting they take that to 16 weeks so they can have a slightly better product on Thursday nights? A night they already dominate and a night that got the NFL Network carried ubiquitously on cable and satellite TV. That seems unlikely.Pandemonium67 said:
That's the ticket. Thursday night should always be two divisional rivals coming off byes. (Hell, there's 16 games and 32 teams; they could get rid of the byes entirely and have every team appear once on a Thursday.) Guys would have plenty of rest, injuries might be fewer, and some of the games would be important.
They essentially aren't allowed to televise on Friday by law.riboflav said:God, these Thursday games suck. I know Friday night is a bad night for tv but I would think the NFL would still draw big numbers and giving everyone one more day might improve the product on the field.
Pandemonium67 said:It would still be 17 weeks. Each team plays 16 games and has two 'half byes' instead of a whole bye.
Hell, there's 16 games and 32 teams; they could get rid of the byes entirely and have every team appear once on a Thursday.
Schnerres said:I don´t know if I understood Pandemonium:
Play on 17 Sundays, 16 Thursdays in between (start SUN, end SUN). This way you get the half-bye he mentions.
Week 1: Everyone plays SUN (Jets, Pats off)
Week 2: Jets-Pats THU, everybody else plays SUN (Bengals, Steelers off)
Week 3: Bengals-Steelers THU, everybody else plays SUN (Colts, Texans off)
Week 4: Colts-Texans THU, everybody else plays SUN (Raiders, Chargers off)
Week 5: Raiders-Chargers, everybody else plays SUN (Eagles, Cowboys off)
...and so on.
For example, a team like the Colts in this example play each week on Sunday and have a half-bye in Week 3, but play on Thursday in Week 4, then have the other half-bye in Week 5 and play again in Week 6 on Sunday.
I don´t know if this makes more sense, is more balanced or is better. Obviously, a team that has his half-byes early in this scheduling would have a tougher road than if you get those breaks in Week 8-12. But that could just rotate from year to year.
DrewDawg said:
But then they lose out on the defending champ on Thursday.
"Reply" button to quote one post the normal way. "+Quote" is like the old multiquote.Whoa. So quoting on the new board is...interesting.
I said quoting, but I probably meant "copy and pasting" from an outside source."Reply" button to quote one post the normal way. "+Quote" is like the old multiquote.