Football on Thursdays

[redlegsfan21]

Professional Football should not be played on Thursdays. I will be missing my first Bengals game since the first game of the 2002 season. I never make plans that could make it possible for me to miss Ohio St. or the Bengals. But this Thursday, I will be performing in a concert which is causing me to miss the game (even on radio).

The only Thursday football I'm prepared for is Thanksgiving and sometimes a good college football matchup. Now, college football is never a guarentee on Thursday nights. People do things during the week. I'm performing in concert on Thursday and going to our high school's opening basketball game on Friday. Now, it is my belief that football became popular because people were not doing things on days it was played (Saturdays and Sundays) while other sports have games every day or night of the week making it harder to follow the team. Football comes right after church or Saturday morning cartoons (when I was a kid at least). The NFL Network says we have a god-given right to watch football. We do, the way God wanted us to, on Saturdays and Sundays. All the NFL has done is shifted the time of the game from probably a 1:00 PM Sunday to an 8:00 PM Thursday. College Football though deserves to be on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Schools are trying to help their programs by attracting recruits and showing off 2 of 119 teams that people probably would never watch otherwise. There is a big difference between 32 and 119+D I-AA Teams that sometimes are on. I'm sorry NFL, but the NHL has proven to be the best professional sports organization with free games on radio, free highlights on nhl.com and YouTube and having the Longest Running Sports Show "Hockey Night in Canada." Don't worry MLB, you have more complaints from me coming.

[ATLFalcons]

I only like college football on Thursdays. What happened to tradition in the NFL?? Coaches can't wear suits, Monday Night Football is on ESPN, what's next?

[brady_branch]

Thanks to ABC picking up this game due to my area of residence, I can watch. Still, say there's two big games that will have an impact on the division title and playoff picture. Putting one on Thursday can make the other completely anticlimactic. For example, what if Maryland-Wake Forest was on Thursday, and BC-Miami was on Saturday? If Wake Forest won, that would make the BC-Miami game useless, because BC would have already been eliminated. There should be no football Tuesday-Friday, except Thanksgiving.

[football junkie]

I'm not entirely sure when G-d intended us to watch football. I find it hard to read Her mind. :D Like the rest of you, I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with a Thursday night NFL gaime. My reason is a little different: over-exposure.

For me, what always made the NFL special was that you could only see it on Sunday or Monday night. It was a once in a week kind of thing and if you missed it, you missed it. But now there are games on Thursday night, Saturday, Sunday and Monday night. Plus the NFL Network replays games all through the week. Maybe football 24.7 isn't such a hot idea. If I can watch football whenever, why should I tune into CBS or FOX on Sunday or NBC that night? And if I were an executive at one of those networks that paid billions of dollars to air the NFL games (mostly to advertise and hype that network's own programs) I'd be a bit annoyed.

Although, I have to admit, it is awfully nice to be able to watch an NFL game without having to see 200 commercials for Numb3rs or Prison Break!

[ATLFalcons]

Yeah, the exclusivity was the good thing about NFL football.

[football junkie]

So how many people watched the game? Because I totally forgot it was even on.

[redlegsfan21]

So how many people watched the game? Because I totally forgot it was even on.
I got home in time to listen to the Ravens score.

[efin98]

The same things that are being said about Thursday football was said about Monday football and look what happened to that- it's become an institution all to itself.

[redlegsfan21]

The same things that are being said about Thursday football was said about Monday football and look what happened to that- it's become an institution all to itself.
At least Monday Night Football was on a channel everyone got and it wasn't too far from the weekend.

[football junkie]

But now that the NFL Network carries live games it won't be long until even basic cable carriers adopt the channel. This was the NFL's way of forcing its network's presence onto more cable and sat systems.

[redlegsfan21]

But now that the NFL Network carries live games it won't be long until even basic cable carriers adopt the channel. This was the NFL's way of forcing its network's presence onto more cable and sat systems.
All I see is a boost in radio listeners.

[Seattle1]

Yes, I like it. That way you don't have to wait all the way until t he weekend to see a game.

[brady_branch]

So how many people watched the game? Because I totally forgot it was even on.

I watched it, for the first and probably last time. Bryant Gumbel makes Tim McCarver sound like a good announcer.

[efin98]

All I see is a boost in radio listeners.

You are looking in the wrong place then.

I see it as an actual boost in the NFL Network's ratings not to mention the boost in ratings to the local affiliate that carries the game(yes, they can carry national broadcasts).

[brady_branch]

That's how I watched it on ABC.

[redlegsfan21]

You are looking in the wrong place then.

I see it as an actual boost in the NFL Network's ratings not to mention the boost in ratings to the local affiliate that carries the game(yes, they can carry national broadcasts).
I've never been a fan of watching games on TV. I always enjoy the radio.

[brady_branch]

It's the same way for me with baseball, but football, I usually need to see it. I can still listen on the radio, though.

[redlegsfan21]

I'm kinda bored right now. There really isn't a game I want to watch today. Kinda stinks, my 2nd weekend in 3 weeks in which I haven't had a Bengals or Buckeyes game. Pretty much a record for the regular season.

[brady_branch]

I'm kinda bored right now. There really isn't a game I want to watch today. Kinda stinks, my 2nd weekend in 3 weeks in which I haven't had a Bengals or Buckeyes game. Pretty much a record for the regular season.

Yeah, I felt a major letdown after the Ravens played on Thursday a few weeks ago. Not cool.

[redlegsfan21]

After that Bengals-Ravens game, my brain lost track of what day it was because it had almost no reference to what day it was except that I just listened to a Bengal's game and I was at school, a Friday felt like a Monday.