Thursday Night Football: Fan or not?

too close together

In comment 14500549 Greg from LI said:

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Man, I really missed Maryland Giant and am thrilled he's posting again!

The very few posters on this thread supporting Thursday night games confirms my suspicions about their level of intelligence.

That said, I hate Thursday games. The environment isn't right, the games usually turn into a mismatch, and it's a risk to player safety.

Keep Thanksgiving games and stop the rest.

It’s a chance to watch the NFL. Pretty much the long and short it for me is whether or not you’re an NFL fan.

I loved when Thursday Night College Games were the only games on.

College the formula works, in the NFL it sucks.

in every way possible … terrible for the players, terrible for the fans who have to work all day and then go to work the next morning, terrible for the fans who have family get togethers on Sundays, but now miss that on the weeks where their team plays Thursday. Its also bad for the teams they play the following week and have to face a very rested opponent.

As far as Thanksgiving, I respect the tradition and some of the above don't apply. But I remain furious that the damn Cowboys get that benefit EVERY Thanksgiving, its not fair to the rest of the league. I can understand the Lions because they were the original and I'm ok with the tradition … also they're not in the Giants division *grin*

...it's fine.

and the same thing could happen to pro football, greed by the owners could be the same as suicide to the game...

And doesn’t need to be every single week (‘fairness’ of every team getting one when the cowboys and lions are home on Thursday every year makes no sense)

But otherwise I’m fine with it - you wouldn’t watch an extra Sunday 1pm game that it’s subtracting from anyway so no downside

Oh and why the fuck won’t they give teams a second bye week?

In comment 14501004 Jersey55 said:

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and the same thing could happen to pro football, greed by the owners could be the same as suicide to the game...

Definition of a stretch (but the commonalities with head injuries and the impact that might have are there ... so...)

In comment 14501854 MetsAreBack said:

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In comment 14501004 Jersey55 said: Quote: and the same thing could happen to pro football, greed by the owners could be the same as suicide to the game... Definition of a stretch (but the commonalities with head injuries and the impact that might have are there ... so...)

I was referring to the over exposure of too many game in a week and now the owners want more games...

The new CBA is coming up . 16 games. 2 buys. If safety is so fucking important a 2nd buy makes more sense. And w that then now team should ever play on 3 days rest? Is that so undoable?

I pass on other Thursday night games