Die hard NFL & Pats fan for a few decades now. I’ve always been of the mindset that more football is better than less, so I’ve always welcomed the Saturday games added to the schedule in late December.
But I have to say that today’s Black Friday game fell flat to me. So do the Sunday morning European games. For whatever reason that I haven’t been able to identify, I just don’t get up for them like I do the normal slate. It’s almost like I feel bad for watching them instead of doing normal shit. I’m good to watch the Thursday and Monday night games because the kids are asleep. Sunday afternoon is sort of accepted as time for football. But Friday afternoon and Sunday morning?? I get why the nfl is doing it. They’re wanting to expand viewership in Europe AND more importantly, dominate other time slots for ratings and future tv contracts. I get it but I also really find myself tuning out.
Am I alone on this island or does it feel like the NFL is quasi jumping the shark?
There’s literally a court order in place stopping the NFL from doing exactly this, they could only do early Friday because there’s college games on right now, we aren’t getting games 6 nights a week
I think that changes when the 12-team college football playoff system starts. They’re going to want some of those games on Sundays, I can see them making a deal with the NFL to swap Saturday & Sunday timeslots.
Oh ya I forgot this was only America where big corporations literally never win by throwing enough money at a problem especially when it comes to antitrust cases. Plus Amazon has already made comments about being willing to test what exactly a law written in 1961 constitutes as “broadcasting” if they need to. They are 100% aiming to dismantle the Sports Broadcasting Act