Monday ok, Sunday night ok. The only game that should be played on a Thursday is for Thanksgiving. And BTW get rid of those bye weeks. Who needs a bye game four weeks into the season. That is all.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. However, they should schedule better teams.

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yeah, thursday football is as retarded as a team in London. leave thursday nights for MAC and ACC games.

Well, you'd better buckle up there, OP...

The NFL will soon have a 2nd game scheduled for Thursday nights.

I predict within 5 years, the only game you will get on network TV is your in-market game. Everything else well be pay-per-view. The NFL Network is gaining traction so, why would they sell the broadcast rights when they can do it themselves.

Once the NFL Sunday Ticket contract expires with DirecTV, the NFL will offer a similar package through every outlet they can to include selling access to the games directly over the internet without the need for a 3rd party partner.

let's start the Amateur League of Football. Looking for people of all skill positions. Every major city can have a team. Fuck these greedmongers.

oh... and our team can be the Chocolate Starfish of D.C.

Y.O.L.O. Wrote:
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> Well, you'd better buckle up there, OP...
>
> The NFL will soon have a 2nd game scheduled for
> Thursday nights.
>
> I predict within 5 years, the only game you will
> get on network TV is your in-market game.
> Everything else well be pay-per-view. The NFL
> Network is gaining traction so, why would they
> sell the broadcast rights when they can do it
> themselves.
>
> Once the NFL Sunday Ticket contract expires with
> DirecTV, the NFL will offer a similar package
> through every outlet they can to include selling
> access to the games directly over the internet
> without the need for a 3rd party partner.


NO broadcast NFL? No viewers. Nobody is gonna pay for this product. Stadiums are rarely sold out anymore. Youth are quitting the game in droves. Their best players get injured and sit for a season or more. They have a head trauma crisis that is gonna bleed them dry of cash. Things might look good now for the NFL, but the warning signs are there. We will soon hit "Peak NFL." In five years it will be a different game, in ten it will be is steep decline.

NFL Losing Market Wrote:
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> Y.O.L.O. Wrote:
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> -----
> > Well, you'd better buckle up there, OP...
> >
> > The NFL will soon have a 2nd game scheduled for
> > Thursday nights.
> >
> > I predict within 5 years, the only game you
> will
> > get on network TV is your in-market game.
> > Everything else well be pay-per-view. The NFL
> > Network is gaining traction so, why would they
> > sell the broadcast rights when they can do it
> > themselves.
> >
> > Once the NFL Sunday Ticket contract expires
> with
> > DirecTV, the NFL will offer a similar package
> > through every outlet they can to include
> selling
> > access to the games directly over the internet
> > without the need for a 3rd party partner.
>
>
> NO broadcast NFL? No viewers. Nobody is gonna
> pay for this product. Stadiums are rarely sold
> out anymore. Youth are quitting the game in
> droves. Their best players get injured and sit
> for a season or more. They have a head trauma
> crisis that is gonna bleed them dry of cash.
> Things might look good now for the NFL, but the
> warning signs are there. We will soon hit "Peak
> NFL." In five years it will be a different game,
> in ten it will be is steep decline.

I just conducted a survey of my friends...87% of them have NFL Sunday Ticket. So, clearly there are people who will pay for the NFL.

Actually, I think TV is killing the stadium experience. For the price of 2 season tickets, I could invite a house full of friends over and we could all sit and watch on my 60" HD TV with catered food every week.

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> Actually, I think TV is killing the stadium
> experience. For the price of 2 season tickets, I
> could invite a house full of friends over and we
> could all sit and watch on my 60" HD TV with
> catered food every week.


What? You enjoy actually being able to sit in the comfort of your own home, in a climate controlled environment, where you can actually hold conversations with your friends, not be berrated by drunks, have beer spilled on you, have someone urinate on your feet in the restrooms, not have to deal with fighting maggots with false bravado brought on by alcohol, oh yeah, and actually be able to see the game clearly? I don't believe it

Y.O.L.O. Wrote:
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> I predict within 5 years, the only game you will
> get on network TV is your in-market game.
> Everything else well be pay-per-view. The NFL
> Network is gaining traction so, why would they
> sell the broadcast rights when they can do it
> themselves.

Aside from the Sunday and Monday night game thats pretty much what we get now from broadcast TV. Its unlikely those games will disappear. The NFL gets huge money for those broadcast rights and it does serve as a free advertisement for other games including the Thursday night ones.

Plus if the NFL did completely stone wall networks saying no more were doing it all our self networks would probably stop selling them ad time. ESPN wouldnt cover the NFL as much either. Part of the reason why ESPN is ALWAYS talking NFL is the huge amount of money they have invested in Monday Night Football. Take away their ability to show any games and they would start pushing other sports they still have a broadcast interest in.

I wouldnt be surprised though if at some point we started seeing games being offered in a PPV style format for people who dont want to pay for the entire package. Something along the lines of allowing you to order individual games or the games of a single team for a discounted price.

Football games take way too long. They are now over 4 hours with time outs to review every non-essential first down catch. Then we watch it over and over and then the commercials start. Boooooring.

The stadium sucks too. Redskins attendance down 10% since 2006. That's a lot. Especially considering they have RG3.

FedEx Field sucks a big one and the half ass team doesnt help matters. While RFK was smaller and run down I never turned down tickets to go there. Up close and personal but Fed Ex is like looking down at your feet for most of the seats.