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Dan Duggan @DDuggan21 John Mara said that's "adamantly opposed" to the proposal to flex games to Thursday night. "Flexible scheduling, as it is, is really inconsiderate to our season-ticket holders and to people who fill our stadiums every week," Mara said. |
....and YES, asking players to play 2 short weeks during a 17 week season is not a good idea either.
JFC, TNF is such a rotten product.
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John Mara said that's "adamantly opposed" to the proposal to flex games on Thursday night.
JFC, TNF is such a rotten product.
The problem is there is no good way to fix it. It was originally conceived as a way for fans of small market teams who don’t live in their home markets to see their teams play on cable television. Unless both are dominant, when would JAX@CLE ever get the top crew on CBS (since FOX didn’t air matches when AFC team was on the road)? They can’t do Saturday due to NCAA and Friday isn’t workable due to the popularity of HS Football in large swaths of the country.
I seen somewhere that it needs to be announced 15 days before game. It still sucks.
That was what was proposed, yes. Hopefully it being nixed "for now" becomes for good, but we'll see.
Yes revenue stream was important, but if that were solely the case they would try to get elite matchups every Thursday to make it more lucrative to television networks. They wanted a slot where every team could have a primetime game over the course of a season. Thursday was perceived as better than Tuesday because of experience with Thanksgiving. If it were me, I would do away with early season TNF except for Week 1. Restart it after bye weeks come in so that every TNF match involves teams who had a Bye week the week before. If you are worried about every team getting a shot at being the lone game on, use the late season Saturday games and Europe matches for that.
I think anytime Mara, Jones, Rooney fam or Hunt fam are against something, it is not going to pass.
Nice of Mara to think about us, though.
Nice of Mara to think about us, though.
which is another way of saying "revenue stream."
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taking off work, paying a ton of money for flights and hotels for a game to find out 3 days beforehand the game will be on a thursday. That would be beyond infuriating and about as big a fuck you as possible to fans.
I seen somewhere that it needs to be announced 15 days before game. It still sucks.
15 days doesn’t do anything to help. I know when I plan trips for away games I book everything far in advance. Typically as soon as the schedule comes out to make sure of the flights, hotel, etc. changing that stuff 15 days out is a major pain in the ass and many times impossible
Yep, just like "don't drive and the gas prices will come down." Sounds good on paper but there's no connection to reality.
They can keep 17. But the world has changed. They can start a week earlier and and end a week later for all I care. Give them 3 buy weeks. Your contracted players w a salary cap are not totally replaceable.
NBA regular season is meaningless. Why not go to the end of Feb?
Fuck Roger Goodell.
Agreed
You all may not like it, but the tv money is worth far more than ticket and medium Pepsi sales. This whole flexing business was conceived to bring more eyeballs to the screen. No eyeballs; no big checks.
Amazon no doubt is bitching about the slate of games they were given and the resulting ratings for their $105 BILLION dollars so the NFL will flex games to make them happy.
Jawn's cut of that is $3.25 billion. The flexing is going to get done; don't fall for the alligator tears.
It's the dollars, always the dollars.
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taking off work, paying a ton of money for flights and hotels for a game to find out 3 days beforehand the game will be on a thursday. That would be beyond infuriating and about as big a fuck you as possible to fans.
I seen somewhere that it needs to be announced 15 days before game. It still sucks.
If you're traveling to another market to see your favorite team on the road, chances are you're booking the entire trip (including the game itself) much farther out than 15 days.
So yes, the three days beforehand example is beyond what is being proposed here, but the reason why it sucks still applies entirely here. Imagine planning a trip to see the Giants play the Packers and then just spending a weekend in Green Bay for a game you already missed by the time you arrive? WTF are you going to do in Green Bay for the weekend?
Do you think the TV money is fully contingent upon TNF flex-scheduling?
Here's a hint: the NFL is going to get their TV money with or without TNF flex-scheduling. Using "no eyeballs" as your comparison is sensationalist and, quite honestly, fucking stupid. The NFL isn't going to broadcast into the abyss if they don't get flex-scheduling on Thursday nights. They might just have to make do with not recognizing a small/moderate incremental ratings gain for TNF. It won't be the first or last time that a corporate entity is forced to trade away maximum income in favor of preserving their NPS.
Let me explain it to you so even you two morons can understand. The fans in the stands are small potatoes.
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thank you! Coming from a pair of dunces like you two, scorn is a compliment.
Let me explain it to you so even you two morons can understand. The fans in the stands are small potatoes.
Let me explain it to you as someone who works in the industry to someone who doesn't have a fucking clue:
It's not the fans in the stands. It's the public perception of not caring about the fans in the stands. It's the possibility that fewer fans will travel to road games beyond a driving distance because of uncertainty leading to more volatility on the demand side of their ticketing, which pushes down on primary and secondary pricing. It's the possibility of fewer sellouts and the potential for local TV blackouts. And it's the optics of empty seats in the stands, especially on Thursday night games, which aren't particularly well-regarded by the public already. If the NFL pushes attendance drop count into the double digit percentages for TNF, TV ratings for TNF will ultimately and eventually follow.
Yes, the NFL wants more TV revenue, obviously. And TV revenue is their golden goose, obviously. But they also want to eventize the game experience itself because - regardless of whether your little brain can process it or not - the inherent interest in watching a live event on TV is substantially related to that event also being a hot ticket in person.
The NFL will always prioritize the TV money over the fans in the stands, true. But they cannot openly alienate the fans in the stands because those are fundamentally the same human beings that watch games on television. There's only so often that you can tell them that you don't care about them before they listen.
Lol
Now go get your shine box! Just kidding.
He doesn't want to piss-off the customers. I get it.
But how about the players' health. That short week has to be murder, especially if you have to travel cross-country to the next Thursday. Thursday night sucks, period.