Tuesday, November 09, 2004

NFL TV Contract -- Bad News

New NFL TV Contract
The owners are making billions of dollars, but the news isn't good for all fans. This is from the article I linked:

"The deals give the NFL the option to move seven late-season games from Sunday to Monday night to feature more attractive matchups, according to an official within the league who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity."

Not good. I like the best games being on Sundays for several reasons.
  • Because I work, I usually can't stay up to see the 2nd half of Monday Night's Game.
  • CBS and Fox do a far superior job covering games. It's time for John Madden to retire, and Al Michaels simply annoys me (maybe I'll expand on that later).
  • By the end of November the quality of play during day games is much better than night games in northern cities. When it's 20 degrees cooler, players usually don't play as well
Let's not weaken the NFL, just to improve Monday Night Football.

Also from the article:

"The NFL also can develop late-season prime-time satellite or cable packages of eight games, which would be televised on Thursdays and Saturdays. Or the league could take those eight games and show them regionally in prime-time telecasts on Sundays and Mondays."

Bad, bad, bad news. Television executives and people running the NFL and NCAA repeat after me: High School Football on FRIDAYS, College Football on SATURDAYS, NFL on SUNDAYS, High School Football on FRIDAYS, College Football on SATURDAYS, NFL on SUNDAYS, High School Football on FRIDAYS, .... (keep going till you get it right)



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